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"prudish" Definitions
  1. very easily shocked by things connected with sex

169 Sentences With "prudish"

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They were often the ones that were the most prudish.
It also shattered the prudish stereotypes often placed onto royals.
I was brought up Catholic, my generation was very prudish.
Even though my family wasn't religious, my upbringing had been prudish.
For women, shutting down that narrative means you're prudish or even rude.
Vanderpump, perhaps channeling a bit of Frankel's spirit, summed her "prudish" reaction.
In a recent interview, you said we were all getting very prudish.
We didn't lead ascetic lives, but prudish attitudes had invaded our psyches.
It's certainly not prudish — the opening scene alone is testament to that.
Millennial pink represents more than just an aesthetic choice: It's prudish, and infantilizing.
While it may seem superficially prudish, this declaration does make some valid points.
Several Pacific nations ban cross-dressing (another hand-me-down from prudish Victorians).
But somewhere along my road to "success," I became scared, tired, and prudish.
The New York Times is famously prudish, preferring whenever possible to use euphemisms.
Hard to get prudish about ordinary bodily functions when everyone's happily defecating together.
Because of his prudish upbringing, he is disgusted and backs away from the budding relationship.
" Indignant "netizens" subscribe and then cancel their subscriptions, "ranting on forums / about my prudish act.
All of which may startle Americans, who tend to be more prudish than the British.
For someone who prides himself on "being able to name things," he was curiously prudish.
Hefner made a business opportunity out of both the male gaze and rebelling against prudish norms.
It turns out that this prudish pubophobe is nothing less than a prophet for our times.
But, this much snogging in one sitting is just too much for my prudish British sensibilities.
Some fine shilling A prudish giant squirrel, a tortilla chip-loving newborn, The Incredible Hulk v.
But our collective failure to discuss the pleasure of sex is far more sinister than prudish.
This was a time of the sexual revolution, a time to do away with prudish behavior.
Throughout the decades, "prudish" Christian conservatives have been known for warning against the dangers of pornography.
Workers shouldn't wear clothes that wouldn't be appropriate if visiting a prudish grandmother or a child's teacher.
Think men cast as Mary, the plain and prudish Bennet sister, and as the snobbish Miss Bingley.
Even Aston-Moore, who gets short shrift as the prudish Chrissy, provides comic relief with her impeccable timing.
School is out and she's dreading a summer of same old — namely, hanging poolside with a prudish friend.
Nothing prudish about these shots of "Jane the Virgin" and Joe LoCicero frolicking Tuesday down in Tulum, Mexico.
His Murdoch might drive The Sun down-market, but he's prudish about his editor's proposals for Page Three.
I'm certainly not prudish, so I have no problem with putting SAFE SEX or IUD in a crossword.
Even "Pamela," prudish and didactic as it is, feels far less limited or quaint than we might expect.
Teens were having way more sex in the 1980s, making the teens of the 2000s look much more prudish.
But prudish Victorian norms tainted the act of looking, making the ancient Indian nude body a salacious voyeur's delight.
In fact, over the course of two days of dirty experiments, I found Alexa to be really, really prudish.
Still, even the most prudish games enthusiast would be hard-pressed to avoid indulging in the occasional virtual substance.
Their swimming outfits would have been considered prudish even by the standards of 1922, when the pool was built.
Rose's Jane Doe accuser claims she was traumatized by the alleged gang rape because she's "prudish" and sexually inexperienced.
A prudish White House transcriber had replaced many four-letter words with "expletive deleted," which became a popular catchphrase.
What has changed are Karen's specific offensive traits: Like all bourgeoisie stereotypes before her, she's snobbish, prudish, and hypocritical.
You wouldn't be wrong in thinking that the CTA's restrictions had resulted in a remarkably prudish sex-tech showcase.
In "The New Romantic," Blake (Jessica Barden) writes the most prudish sex column in the history of college newspapers.
THE prudish wording of India's colonial-era penal code of 1860 has long cast a baleful shadow over gay people.
Euphoria forces us to reckon with how contemporary television remains all too prudish in its representation of the male anatomy.
Twitter was too text-heavy to properly showcase erotic art, and Facebook was too prudish (and not nearly anonymous enough).
The clubs have become islands of tolerance for nonconformists, sexual and otherwise, in a country that remains prudish and patriarchal.
The flirtatious eyelash at first commands more attention, but with time we find the prudish monochrome is not without charm.
People who get high want to live life to the fullest and reject prudish societal norms, so they're also DTF?
But not before Florence stocks her shelves with "Lolita," inciting a cultural awakening that shakes Hardborough to its prudish core.
I didn't want to seem hickish, prudish, and tied down — the traits I saw in many members of my family.
It's not just that they're prudish, and that they're forcing someone else to do a job both parents should be doing.
The stink of censorship has some South Africans recalling the prudish days of racist apartheid where so many films were banned.
People may accuse him of being prudish and misogynist, but at least he will never be accused of Mr. Weinstein's sins.
Your love has a deep, penetrating, and gutsy quality to it that could make more prudish folks turn bashful or shy.
The purchase of a violent show seems in contrast to Apple's traditionally prudish standards for apps it sells in the App Store.
LGBT Gallery Tour (Saturday) This tour of seven exhibitions in West Chelsea's gallery district is not for children, or for the prudish.
And in that more prudish time period, women were expected to turn down sex (at first, anyway) even if they wanted it.
And while the original scripts could be a bit prudish, at least they weren't hostile and misogynistic in their dealings with sex.
Sexuality has always been fluid—it was only the prudish Victorians who made everyone adhere to the idea of the nuclear family.
From my article: Their swimming outfits would have been considered prudish even by the standards of 1922, when the pool was built.
This is not a plea based on prudishness or squeamishness, unless wanting wrestlers to stick around for a long time is prudish.
And, you know, people used to be prudish, by current standards; and now, in contrast, it seems that there is no prudence.
But when that hands-off stance doesn't apply to graphic violence, sexism, and other sore spots, it comes off as prudish and hypocritical.
Since finding fame on the show, Mr Zhou had shown no inclination to upset prudish censors by returning to his gangsta-rapper roots.
Per the prudish rules we tend to apply to players—and only players—in the NBA's free agent marketplace, it's also borderline unbecoming.
In retrospect, the dynamics of the Clinton-era culture wars seem blissfully simple, pitting a sexually libertarian left against an aggressively prudish right.
Synopsis: In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
She built a reputation as a "prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious" young woman in order to feel her body was safe and her voice heard.
His best tracks are wry, Auto-Tune-heavy R&B jams that seem like they were designed to make China's prudish internet censors blush.
But show business isn't really like the App Store or an iPhone commercial, where Apple's prudish attitude at least makes more sense on business grounds.
He clearly thought my sexual boundaries were prudish, and I liked him, so I agreed to have intercourse with him sooner than I normally would.
" She built a reputation that stressed how "bookish and serious" she was, which resulted in her earning a reputation for being "prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious.
Oh, and it's worth noting that Instagram is more prudish than the literal streets of New York when it comes to controlling women's self-representation.
"But it's also that she's quintessentially a New Yorker and DC political culture is formal and prudish when NYC mostly isn't those things," he added.
But the naturists see this as nothing less than an affront to their rights, and a step back towards a prudish, Victorian way of thinking.
But the prudish yet revered Oxford English Dictionary left all references to tribadism out of its dictionary altogether, because it did not include sex slang.
It's emblematic of a particular type of jealousy between women: It's not that Sarah has some sexual claim over Lauren, or even that she's prudish.
For the Producers Guild Awards, she was every inch the proper (and nearly prudish) lady in a mock-neck, long-sleeve crystal-dotted Prada gown.
One result of Mr Xi's efforts to tighten the party's control over the media has been that public discussion of prostitution has become even more prudish.
It's a web app, accessible through your phone's browser, and thus a platform that completely bypasses any prudish (or legally cautious) censors in anyone's app store.
What better way to celebrate the day—and thumb our noses at an increasingly prudish and uneducated America—than with a round of advanced sex ed?
What better way to celebrate the day—and thumb our noses at an increasingly prudish and uneducated America—than with a round of advanced sex ed?
In a cheeky move toward compliance, the dancers donned thongs, which covered just enough risky business to be acceptable by the apparently prudish Mr. La Guardia.
I don't linger on the sex element to highlight the series' horniness, rather that it had a refreshing attitude toward sex in a pretty prudish time.
"It can feel very isolating to always sequester yourself behind a closed door in order to protect the prudish sensibilities of the people around you," Alderks said.
"The Victorian is known for being straight-laced, and prudish, and I think a lot of that was Albert," Jenna Coleman explained in an interview with Refinery29.
I didn't expect her to say yes, but by then, it was too late to take it back, thereby confirming that I was the more prudish one.
Nowhere is this better exemplified than with the nature of swearing, a sport that bots have always been more prudish about than the public as a whole.
The stern and dour independent counsel Kenneth Starr, on the other hand, left many with the impression that a prudish moral agenda drove his Lewinsky-gate investigation.
He updated Sherlock Holmes, creating a brilliant but socially awkward, obsessive-compulsive detective who assisted the police while milking comedy from the protagonist's discomfort and prudish fussiness.
It is hard to convince prudish parents of the creative merits of frivolous dolls, and grown-up Chinese collectors prefer short and chubby Molly, a popular local poppet.
Her mother was infantilising, prudish and smothering; her father was a loquacious and much-loved journalist who treated Angela to expensive gifts, dresses and "a succession of cats".
It has since backtracked after public criticism and added a sex tech category for 2020 under the health and wellness banner—in exchange for a prudish dress code.
I built a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel that my body was safe and that my voice would be listened to.
NBC censors can chill ... Kristin Chenoweth is reassuring them, the FCC and prudish viewers about how free her hooters did or didn't get during "Hairspray Live" the other night.
"I've never been the least bit prudish, but I definitely felt creeped out by all of their comments," Lynsey McMullen, who appeared on the quiz show in December, told me.
The Morgan's show, sadly, has only a little X-rated Lequeu, but it's not entirely prudish; you'll find one exacting study of a woman's rear end, her thighs and buttocks helpfully labeled.
Similarly, "Bohemian Rhapsody", a biopic of Queen's lead singer, Freddie Mercury, has been denounced for being prudish about his hedonism and his bisexuality, and, for that matter, for being pedestrian and formulaic.
"There is a longstanding commitment to the notion that the French do gender relations differently — especially from prudish Americans — and that has to do with the French understanding of seduction," she said.
Like "Dumme Kuh" (stupid cow), for example, or "Pissnelke" (a word for both a dandelion and a prudish, boring girl), or "Flachzange" (which refers to a flat plier and to an idiot).
Latifah brings a sturdy strength to Sasha, and Pinkett Smith in particular gets to dive into some fun physical comedy as the prudish Lisa becomes the butt of most of the film's jokes.
The shift to less carnal services started after the second world war, when the prudish American occupiers urged the Japanese authorities, against their better judgment, to outlaw payment for vaginal sex in 1958.
I think we're quite prudish and prurient, so we sort of want to know all the salacious details but with the, 'Oh we'd never do that'; there's a sort of odd tension there.
She gets frustrated by some of her "quite prudish" Christian audience members, adding that "actually, in the Bible there is a lot of vulgarity, and there is quite a bit of coarse language".
Mr. Hutchinson often fought against the prevailing definitions of obscenity in cases that were seen as landmarks in Britain's transition from a prudish and hidebound society to a more open and tolerant one.
Directed by Amy Anders Corcoran for the York Theater Company, "Unexpected Joy" pits the hippy-dippy Joy (Luba Mason) against her prudish, semi-estranged daughter, Rachel (Courtney Balan), whose parents called her Rainbow.
Far from being a prudish institution, the New York Public Library houses one of the world's great collections of erotica, ranging from magazines like Transvestia to the manuscript for Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.
And, in fact, the word was Aztec for "testicle," a name that reinforced the fruit's legend as an aphrodisiac and made it much more difficult to sell to the rather prudish American eating public.
The champion of the optimistic and the moderate, the prudish Howells briefly read law in the office of the Radical Republican Benjamin Wade, an abolitionist, and then composed a campaign biography for Abraham Lincoln.
Oftentimes, it isn't very effective and probably, alongside our prudish and sclerotic sex ed system, goes a long way toward explaining our high rates of teen pregnancies and STIs relative to other developed nations.
"I was really prudish, and sang it with sheer innocence, which I'm really proud of now," she said, according to the 19923 book "Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop," by Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe.
Black Christmas is set in a sorority, and its female college students, including Kidder and Hussey, make Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie in Halloween look like a prudish waif left over from an entirely different era.
Meanwhile, the 20th century critic Terry Eagleton argued that the book's language "is that of morality rather than imagination": too prim and prudish to be truly great art in the way that Wuthering Heights was.
That alliance was disrupted in the 1920s with a consumer-driven youth revolt against the prudish Victorian matriarch and a celebration of a motherless girl culture of flapper dance-a-thons, petting parties and gin fests.
It was mostly a great movie, she'd said, but she couldn't understand why, in a movie about a woman becoming comfortable with her interest in another woman, it would be so prudish about showing actual intimacy.
Forget the prudish "moral codes" Western culture has engrained in you — you can do whatever the fuck you want with your vagina, whether it's dressing it up with highlighter or putting a sheet mask on it.
What this all really comes down to is a game of wits between the prudish gatekeepers and horny kids, and whether the former can figure out how to execute a system that the latter can't exploit.
When she was dating John White, a friend of Jack's from Harvard, White was repeatedly stunned at just how "prudish" she was – she wouldn't even say the word "sex" in front of him, according to Byrne.
Lavi's blackmailing is its own egregious abuse of power, yet Nofar falls for him — and the sexual favors he obtains are prudish, as if the author was reluctant to sever our empathy for a seeming underdog.
Brash, busty Mae West, who ridiculed dieting ("the only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond") was elbowed out by the arrival of the prudish Hays Code, enforced in earnest from 1934.
I felt like I had stumbled into a parallel sexual reality, one with rules and manners I would be forever too prudish and uncool to understand, where only well-oiled men like Billy Idol can comfortably reside.
The movie comes to theaters disguised as a lively, colorful origin story for a colorful character — a conventional biopic about a creator whose fierce lady superhero character met a prudish, scolding response when he introduced her in 1941.
Interestingly, as executive producer Shauna Minoprio told the LA Times, Goop execs chose to shoot the masturbation scene without asking permission—not unlike the many women who regularly challenge social media's prudish rules by posting their nudes anyway.
But it's too easy to say that Day was simply the opposite — the prim, prudish, all-American avatar of Eisenhower-era repression, with her hair in a neat chignon and her figure sheathed in a soberly tailored suit.
In the otherwise lackluster revival that opened on Thursday evening — a Classic Stage Company and Transport Group coproduction directed by Jack Cummings III — the choice pays off; Ms. Ireland is riveting as the passionate yet prudish Alma Winemiller.
Their titles are not publishable in The New York Times, but don't be prudish: These pictures of penetration are more forensic than pornographic, and they resolve, when you move toward them, into delicate spumes of blue and gray.
"I get a ton of these questions from students who are going home and they think of it like, 'How am I going to bear it, how am I going to survive it, my prudish parents,'" Mr. Galanes said.
The funniest and most winning on-the-job romance bubbles up between two people (Martin Freeman and Joanna Page) who work as body doubles on a movie set, miming explicit sex scenes in the absence of the prudish stars.
That this should be the case, that only prudish Christians and spoilsport feminists are willing to say that the man was obviously wicked and destructive, is itself a reminder that the rot Hugh Hefner spread goes very, very deep.
Just as the American film industry is "self-regulated" by the notoriously prudish Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Facebook's own policies ban nearly all depictions of the nude human body—regardless of the fact that it's constitutionally-protected expression.
For the prudish, it might be hard to see, but it does have its benefits: These days, sales from the festival — penis clothing, candy, food, toys — rake in gobs of money every year, put duly to work toward HIV research.
Georg Baselitz, who hailed from a village called Baselitz close to a near-obliterated architectural masterpiece called Dresden, absconded to the West, and shocked the prudish by painting, in the early 1960s, the human figure looking malign and sexually degraded.
Mr. Garrow goes on to speculate that the prudish Mr. Sullivan, who may or may not have written the damning sentence, and his aides were unlikely to have embellished this account and had no "apparent motive" to do so. Really?
For 18 of those years Graves has served as the ratings system's chairwoman, sparring with boundary-pushing filmmakers who call her too prudish, and, at the same time, defending her process to activists and parents who deem her grades too permissive.
It seems as though now, when to kink-shame is to reveal oneself as laughably prudish, a leather harness on a straight male celebrity is both the signifier of a more open and accepting society but also one that's become increasingly homogenous.
The rest of her crew is as follows: Ryan, a career-obsessed self-help author played by Regina Hall; Sasha, a level headed gossip blogger played by Queen Latifah; and Lisa, an overly prudish mother of two played by Jada Pinkett-Smith.
It was a peculiar era in which to be a teen-age girl, equally prudish and decadent: the era of Trump Tower and cocaine, AIDS and "Just Say No." It also made me a free-speech absolutist, wary of any clampdown on expression.
Mr. Putin, who from time to time underscores in his speech that he is not a prudish man, once joked that communist labor had the same flaw as group sex, as it's impossible to tell who is working and who is slacking off.
The actress again chose Valentino, a slightly prudish bib-front rose gown, for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and InStyle cocktail party in November, and an ethereal embroidered gown with a surprisingly skimpy bodice at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January.
And those beach parties were one reason the Communist regime formally outlawed nudism for two years — before giving up and eventually even encouraging the practice as proof of how much more liberated life under Communism was compared to the prudish, capitalist West.
And those beach parties were one reason the Communist regime formally outlawed nudism for two years — before giving up and eventually even encouraging the practice as proof of how much more liberated life under Communism was compared to the prudish, capitalist West.
The rigours that dan specialists historically endured in training were featured in "Farewell My Concubine", an award-winning Chinese film released in 1993 (and withdrawn two weeks later by prudish censors who allowed its re-release only after some references to homosexuality were cut).
The ensemble appears to consist of little more than a sheer black, belted blazer and skirt worn atop a black bandeau bra and briefs, which considering she's been on some "sheer nipple vibes" lately is actually a surprisingly prudish ensemble for the mother of two.
The closest thing Europe has to the prudish Americans sex education system is probably found in the UK, which has been criticized for skirting around important sex-related matters in school, and which had the highest teen pregnancy rate in Western Europe as of 2014.
Most noteworthy are Fini's extensive erotic drawings for her own portfolio, Les Merveilles de nature (Natural Wonders) (19303), which restore to the Orpheus legend its original sexual explosiveness, qualities long tamped down over the course of the West's myopic and prudish post-Enlightenment periods.
Embedded within the idea of seduction, he writes, are two stories: one of passion, in which a villain pursues a victim and degrades away their ability to consent; and one of reason, in which two rational individuals meet on equal ground, unburdened by prudish sexual taboos.
In 2013, the academy published a sympathetic memoir from a former colleague, David Asher of the FDA, who wrote: Carleton emphatically and repeatedly rejected our norms as prudish and vociferously defended his behavior as natural, both historically and by the more liberal standards of many other countries today.
When a pair of cotton-top tamarins went wild for the prenatal-inspired compositions (one of which he called "Monkey Metal"), Professor Teie knew he'd tapped into Mother Nature's motherboard, so to speak—so he moved onto cats, composing and recording music tailor-suited for the picky, prudish beasts.
For a show about a woman who works blue, it's oddly prudish.) By the finale of the first season, Midge has a dangerous enemy—Sophie Lennon (Jane Lynch), an older star who tells fat jokes, in a fat suit—but, as ever, she keeps killing, swatting down sexists.
But the uncomfortable proximity of terror and pleasure, the mark of mortality in the midst of intimacy, percolates beneath the surface at all times, so that even at its most extreme and obscene — "BLKS" is not for prudish ears or eyes — it is serious and sad and profoundly human.
He was the man who defied Bible Belt convention and survived a career in the cross hairs of evangelical Christians, prudish city officials, and even — in that odd way that the long putt of history sometimes breaks — an assistant United States attorney general named Robert S. Mueller III.
At a time when the culture at large and the art world were still relatively prudish and also deeply homophobic, Dial-A-Poem — which was featured in the highly influential Information exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 703 — was often unabashedly erotic and heavily gay in content.
Most of these crackdowns have been parts of efforts to appease prudish advertisers, but platforms have also banned users to avoid violating the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, passed in 2017, which amended Section 230 to add an exception that holds platforms liable for hosting sex trafficking ads.
Teachers often invite guest educators to do the dirty work for them, which sounds like a great idea, but many speakers are censored, if not because of policy, then because of the prudish culture of the school or because of the prudishness of a teacher or principal or committee of parents.
Although just one of the three obscenity charges, including his publication of classy erotic magazine Eros, the Handbook was brought to the center of the case thanks to a very prudish judge, who was quick to point out that Serett's description of cunnilingus fell under the legal definition of sodomy.
The story is now focused even more closely on the central relationship between Crowley, the high-living devil who kicks the plot into gear by misplacing the baby Antichrist, and the prudish angel Aziraphale, who works with Crowley in a desperate, covert, comical campaign to keep the world from ending.
While there was much to criticize about the sometimes prudish and hypocritical Motion Picture Production Code that forced actors to keep their clothes on and avoid foul language in films produced from 1930 to 1968, it could be said that films then were mostly not complicit in the lowering of moral standards.
Ms. Juska's encounters formed the basis of "A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance," a memoir, published in 20063, that followed her from her prudish Midwestern roots to her liberated flings and brought her to Oprah Winfrey and Charlie Rose's television talk shows to tell her story.
Curator Margot Norton attributes this to Americans being "a bit more prudish" than audiences in Europe and the UK. "It will be interesting to see how an American audience responds to the work, which is very honest about sexuality and identity and many issues that are almost taboo to speak about," she tells VICE.
" And at the Women's March in Los Angeles last month, Portman recounted in a speech that, at a young age, she "built a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel that my body was safe" in reaction to coming of age as an actor in an "environment of sexual terrorism.
Prudish media scorned the marriage because of the couple's vast age difference, but serious critics pointed out that pairing a high-value target with a young wife was an established practice of the C.C.P.; there is even a stock phrase for receiving such attentions from the state: coming under "the warm concern of the Party" (or the premier).
At the foot of a copy of Michelangelo's "David" — given as a diplomatic gift to Queen Victoria, who was allegedly so scandalized by the statue's nudity that the museum was forced to add a fig leaf — our guide regales us with tidbits from Renaissance art history that would undoubtedly have shocked the museum's famously prudish namesake.
Aside from Diane (Kelly McDonald), the 15-year-old schoolgirl who blackmails Mark "Rent-Boy" Renton (Ewan McGregor) after he sleeps with her, and Alison, who accidentally kills her baby while in a heroin coma, the only women given any screen time are mothers (to chastise), and Tommy's prudish ex, whose breakup pushes him into a shortened life of addiction and HIV.
"And in the same breath that the CTA seemingly takes a baby step forward when it comes to illustrating its commitment to its non-male attendees and exhibitors, it took a serious stride back in its implementation of a prudish dress code on the show floor, which is included below:"Booth personnel may not wear clothing that is sexually revealing or that could be interpreted as undergarments.
In Paris, there are options at both ends of the spectrum — from the more traditional Grand Mosquée (39 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005) with its multigenerational bathers catching up on gossip as they sprawl across the ornate tiles, to the chic steam room in the Charme d'Orient (18 Boulevard du Temple, 75011), on the edge of the Marais, which can be privatized for the more prudish among us.
If you don't know comedian Nikki Glaser from her current Comedy Central show Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, you may have seen her stand-up work on Last Comic Standing and elsewhere, or her talk show with Sara Schaefer Nikki & Sara Live (not to mention her turn as a prudish mother in Amy Schumer's Trainwreck.) If not, you're missing out, because Glaser is unafraid to wrangle in a personal and relatable way with that most uncomfortable of topics: sex.
Born in 1904 to an upper-class, bohemian family, Calderone spent her first ten years in Paris as her parents' marriage frayed: Although her father was a prominent photographer who was friends with Picasso and Matisse—when Mary was six, a famous story goes, she instructed the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi to give his birds more uplifted heads, and he did it—her mother was steeped in prudish Victorian values; she did things like make the young Mary wear metal "mittens" to bed to prevent her from masturbating, a policy that Calderone later credited as an influence on her career as a sexual liberator.

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