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Перевод: prurience

[существительное]
зуд ; непреодолимое желание; похотливость

Тезаурус:

1. Not out of prurience, or anything Alice could dislike; there was a total noncomprehension there.
2. He was a man whose sexual energies had been forced inwards through his crippling disease, and had taken the form of mental passion which found relief in meticulous scholarship and mild prurience.
3. Recent British and US feminist debates about lesbian sado-masochism expressed this prurience (e.g. Califia 1980, Ardill and O'Sullivan 1986).
4. We have become more civilised and more sensitive to the needs of individuals, and more reluctant to pander to prurience: hence our law against naming rape or blackmail victims, the limits on reporting evidence in divorce cases, and the rules against revealing old criminal convictions.
5. Primarily associated with fertility, so highly regarded in primitive times for the continuity of the group, this powerful force was often controlled and restricted by taboos, some of which have survived into modern times as codes of social behaviour, but deeply affected by both prudery and prurience which usually operated together.
6. But in truth she'd found it difficult to sustain her patronising English mix of prurience and pity very long.
7. This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of "Victorian prurience".
8. The last decades of the nineteenth century saw the coming together of all the major themes of its sexual discourses: class pride and evangelism, moral certainty and social anxiety, the double standard and "respectability", prurience and moral purity.
9. In the history of censorship in public libraries such opportunists are often local politicians and the local and national press, who feed and sustain one another with a rich diet in prurience, bigotry and alarmist politics, all in the name of the protection of a way of life and cherished values.
10. He must have heard in her voice what she obviously felt, not prurience but sympathy, an understanding that he needed to talk.
11. Morrissey, formerly lead singer of the Smiths and now a solo artist, is the central figure in this demi-monde and he has successfully mounted a long career based on a delightfully British blend of prurience and prudery.
12. Prurience is universal.