prurient

Perhaps this is one reason, beyond the prurient, that people are fascinated.

Even from the religious point of view, prurient prudery is not justifiable.

Grave, shy, and reserved, I was never taken into the counsels of prurient schoolmates.

But with these obscene processes and prurient apparitions the gentle and happy scholar of flowers has nothing whatever to do.

And this in the interest of health and longevity, not in the interest of a prurient and effeminate "art."

To call such a man ‘ambitious,’ to figure him as the prurient windbag described above, seems to me the poorest solecism.