prudishness
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Eight years later, “Showgirls” poked fun at the entertainment industry and America’s cultural prudishness.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Milton is renowned as an enemy of press censorship," Scott-Warren said, "but here we see he was not immune to prudishness."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
Comstock ultimately became a public laughingstock for his prudishness, and the Supreme Court overturned the law’s restrictions on birth control in 1965.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023
“There was always a kind of prudishness about the risqué humor, some of the language — the profanity — which I think in the post-‘Book of Mormon’ days has hopefully been displaced,” Mr. Thomas said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
Perhaps at this age we return to the prudishness we had as children.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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