Prurient

An adult applying contemporary community standards would find the material or performance has a predominant tendency to appeal to a prurient interest of minors in sex.

Danes was about 17 at the time of shooting, and DiCaprio already in his twenties.) But the film cannot be said to appeal to any but the most perverse and macro of prurient interests.

In Tennessee, a bill would classify “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest” as adult cabaret performances and would ban performances on public property.

However, the suit continues: “All of the entertainment provided by the admiral is non-obscene (and thus cannot be deemed prurient),” the suit states.

Neither does a doll, of course — even one designed with the prurient interest in mind.

When a bar has the name Killer Whale Sex Club, you'd expect it to be memorable — and maybe a little prurient.

Even a cis gaze has been sort of stuck on that: the question of before and after, in a sort of prurient way.

The book was “prurient”, said the titans of contemporary Malayalam literature, with writer M Mukundan lamenting that great novels in the future won’t be written by great (male) authors but by (female) sex workers.

This comes through most shockingly early in the play, when a young man named Martin takes prurient interest in his two female cousins, both young children.

Miller, at 39 Note that "community" standards—not national standards—are applied whether the material appeals to the prurient interest, leaving the question of obscenity to local authorities.

The historical figure and her fate were often used in the arts to make a moral point, but underlying that there was often a prurient fascination with her sexually liberated behavior.

This decision was especially significant, because, of the three books mentioned, Fanny Hill has by far the largest measure of content that seems to appeal to prurient interest, and the smallest measures of literary merit and "redeeming social importance".