Oscar Wilde

Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Irish Poet

Joanna Scott

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

American Author

George Gilder

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

American Writer

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

American Judge

Peter Landesman

There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore.

American Director

Prurient often implies a disapproving or negative attitude toward someone else's sexual curiosity.

Negative Connotation

Use with caution in formal settings due to its sexual connotations.

Avoid in Formality

'Prurient' is often used to critique unwanted intrusion into someone's private or sexual life.

Privacy Intrusion

In literature, 'prurient' can be used to critique or describe explicit sexual content.

Context in Literature

'Prurient' is often used to describe content in movies, magazines, and online that focus on sex.

Media Usage

What one considers 'prurient' can be subjective and vary between individuals.

Subjective View

 which I call editorial graffiti. This is a picture I took recently in the subway, and sometimes you see lots of prurient, stupid stuff, but I thought this was interesting, and this is a poster that is saying