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• n  feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

• Public interest in a candidate's sex life is not prurience but an honest curiosity about a their future leader's character.
• If some of the eager buyers were incited to purchase the DVD through prurience, they were doomed to disappointment.
• Without prurience, he adds up the aftermath of Coe's vicious spree: years later, some of his victims cannot stand to be touched, a few are frigid, and all are afflicted by .

• pruriency
• lasciviousness
• carnality
• lubricity

News & Articles

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• REVIEW, THIS IS THE END
  Not many folks would be offended by this ribald satire. Only everyone in the Bible Belt, anyone who believes in The Rapture, and anyone who thinks that movies were better before 'There's Something About Mary' opened the gates for all sorts of prurience on the big screen. Most of the rest of us may not be offended, by we might not appreciate that the film evokes only sporadic attempts at humor ...
  June 10, 2013 - Arizona Reporter

Quotes

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• India Knight in Forbes
  I want to stop reading, listening, watching, Googling, amateur sleuthing,wrote columnist India Knight in the Sunday Times. "I nauseate myself with my own prurience."
• Robert Olen Butler in International Herald Tribune
  It was a stolen e-mail by somebody in the New York publishing world,Butler said. "It's nobody's fault but the prurience of our pop culture."
• Amanda Platell in New York Times
  I don't know how Carol can believe that by writing this book she is contributing anything other than prurience to her mother's personal and political legacy,Ms. Platell wrote.