Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's the more sophisticated word the US Supreme Court uses instead of more colloquial words such as "perverted," "nasty," "deviant," "sick," etc., when discussing first amendment freedom of speach cases. E.g. pornography is not protected free speach when it's "primary appeal is to prurient sexual interests." a.k.a. "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." Tom Schofield > >So -- what did you intend when you brough up the > >topic of sex dolls made in Japan? Are you introducing > >prurience (OT) or bigotry (also OT) to the LUG? > > > Excuse a foriegner (sp?), but what on earth is prurience? > > /Anders Nygren >