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- Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan
- Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated… — George Gilder
- O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of… — E E Cummings
- An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Stopes
- The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient… — Thurman Arnold
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson
- Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient… — William J. Brennan
- Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is… — Walt Whitman
- Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. — Carl Jung
- Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to… — Christopher Hitchens
- Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. — Christopher Moore
- The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley