(1) It proved cancer patients to be more dependent, anxious, aggressive, health-conscious, family-bound and antisexual.
(2) These sociosexual attitudes, and the sense of shame involved, are linked to very old social and religious antisexual traditions.
(3) In America, Tissot's antisexual health-reform ideas were transmitted by Graham to Kellogg and Comstock.
(4) Antisexual primary Christian traditions, which consist of, as a rule, a mixture of suppression, silencing, intimidation, and threat, still have sufficiently extensive sociopsychological consequences to disrupt the psychosexual equilibrium of an individual.
Prudery
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Who would've predicted that instead of laughing at Victorian prudery, many men still expect their sexual encounters to entail pudenda, pins and pits as marble smooth as those of young Ruskin's imagination?
(2) Despite government prudery, the dramatic decrease in rates of rectal gonorrhea in New York and San Francisco indicate that homosexuals are listening to appeals to practice "safe sex."
(3) He picked apart politicians, living and dead; mocked religion and prudery; opposed wars from Vietnam to Iraq; and insulted his peers like no other, once observing that the three saddest words in the English language were Joyce Carol Oates.
(4) As this organ resembles the letter Omega of the Greek alphabet those who believe in prudery speak of it as the omega-shaped organ.
(5) In his book on theatre censorship, Politics, Prudery and Perversions , Nicholas de Jongh suggests it was the violence of Bond's "real-life, demotic speech" that horrified his audience.
(6) Mann was surprised to see an art critic using the vocabulary of a 10-year-old, but not by the underlying prejudice: "There's a new prudery around death.