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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (29575)1/31/1999 10:42:00 AM
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Oh dear, of course you never predicted the comeuppance. This is the post I was referring to, and it was Bob's:

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Putting aside whether the post you actually were referring to is prurient, and only commenting on the equation of sex with prurience: Language evolves. The word 'prurience' has come to have connotations the word 'sexual' doesn't. I'd say all prurience derives from sexual connotations (putting aside the dermatological meanings!), but not all sexual references are prurient. One thinks of pornography as prurient; of Chaucer's the Wife of Bath as bawdy but not prurient; and of Molly Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses as sexual but not prurient.

At least this is how I would call them.

[EDIT: This is not to say that I think all prurience is bad in itself; or that it can't be used literarily to make all sorts of points.]
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