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"The album is not for any pearl clutchers," she told CBS News, with reference to prim, prudish or easily offended people.

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The online response to the art was painfully scolding and prudish.

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"Young people are so exposed to sex on the internet and at the same time schools are very prudish," she said.

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And secondly, the American voter is far less prudish than many assume, a point brought home by another sexual scandal from a different political age.

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“It was clear that we couldn’t make a prudish film,” says Lanthimos.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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