Definition of prurient | Bee Dictionary of English

Sevran's prurient opinions are but the latest addition to the growing racist chatter in the French mainstream.
The Emperors Club website crashed on Monday afternoon with the onslaught of journalistic and prurient interest.
Set in the Bay Area, Mona had no redeeming social interest, only redeeming prurient interest.

Pr. George’s police officer charged for taking photos of woman without consent
A seven-year veteran of the Prince George’s County Police Department was charged with three counts of visual surveillance with prurient intent and second-degree assault.
June 6, 2013 - The Prince George's Sentinel
Pretty Interesting: Legislators Rally for Catwalk Kiddies
(Getty) The notion of exploitation in the modeling industry has become so familiar that it is a part of our cultural consciousness. Stories of teenage girls uncomfortably assuming prurient poses for photographers in isolated studios, being offered cocktails of drugs and champagne at runway shows, and encouraged to shed fast pounds to conform to unrealistic physical measurements are commonplace ...
June 5, 2013 - The New York Observer
The H-spot: Your Sex Questions Answered
Art by Ryan Huertas, www.ryanhuertas.com Welcome to Hyphen’s inaugural The H-spot column, where Hyphen drops mad knowledge on readers’ questions about the nasty and other prurient delights. Our experts consist of sex goddess Nadia Cho, intrepid medical doctors Monica Hahn and Dharushana Muthulingam, and diva extraordinaire Barbie. Each week, we ...
June 5, 2013 - Hyphen Magazine

David Paterson in FOXNews
The reality is that it hurts people, they knew it would hurt people; it was designed to do that and also to feed the prurient interest of bigoted, prejudiced people in this society,Paterson said.
Jimmy Wales in The Guardian
On his Talk page, co-founder Jimmy Wales wrote that: "Wikimedia Commons admins who wish to remove from the project all images that are of little or no educational value but which appeal solely to prurient interests have my full support."
Massimo Cacciari in Reuters.uk
She realized these words did not meet the standard of appealing to prurient interests. She did a great job fighting on 2 Live Crew's behalf, which lets you know that Kagan is not easily swayed by public opinion or by politicians with their own... Luther Campbell http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Campbell&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG7_X1hQ77T1ctIa2aulLyE_Jr58Q Politico (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0710/2_Live_Crew_chief_backs_Kagan.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGTOMZBNa_AoznrKrWf5zzthmPc4A Jul 7, 2010 78576 105652 prussia The Venice carnival for centuries has been the European event of the year," Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari said. "Rulers from around the world, like the King of Prussia, would come, masked and incognito, to revel here."