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Examples
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Stewart's handling the eight-foot hot dog, and the man submitting to a derailluer, appeal to the same purient interest.
BSNYC Flying Funquist! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Under the law, pornography is speech that titillates the purient interests, creating an itching or longing. (from memory).
Fox News Poll: Do You Have A Neighbor Who Says Obama "Scares Them"? 2009
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But infighting is the kind of thing that I fear will dominate the media and play to the purient interests of the passive voter.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Clyburn May Drop Neutral Stance To Punish Clintons 2009
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But infighting is the kind of thing that I fear will dominate the media and play to the purient interests of the passive voter.
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Liberals are never interested in public service for the right reasons, the ALWAYS do it only for their own purient interests.
(Cartoon) - (A) for First 100 days - TobyToons – dia0420’s Diary - RedState 2009
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Under the law, pornography is speech that titillates the purient interests, creating an itching or longing. (from memory).
Fox News Poll: Do You Have A Neighbor Who Says Obama "Scares Them"? 2009
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I mentioned Ron – once – but have never had any purient interest in him.
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I have come to believe that I can trust, and we should ALL trust, the Hollywood system to have a child's best interests at heart and place them above any purient or purely monetary concerns.
Does the new Dakota Fanning movie violate the federal child pornography law? Ann Althouse 2007
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I am upset that some pervs put it on the screen and tried to justify it as something other than purient.
"Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness." Ann Althouse 2007
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The arts are a form of purient entertainment. (from interviews with Mark Pauline. 1980's)
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
Jimmydiamond commented on the word purient
having or encouraging excessive intrest in sexual matters.
August 26, 2012