How to pronounce “prurient” in English

And it's something Dil said, and I'm really gobsmacked by some of the questions you get asked.And it's not from malice or that people are wanting to be prurient.It's actually, they're just kind of thinking, this is the kind of question I would ask.

and it opens up a whole load of other stuff.So, we aren't being too prurient.

He was on television eventually, but they'd only shoot him below the waist.Yeah. American television, they're very prurient about that, because he was jiggling about.Eh-- above the waist, sorry.

Something is obscene if it falls within the three-part definition of obscenity established by the Supreme Court in a case called Miller v. California, 1973. In order to be obscene,that's a category of speech that has no First Amendment protection at all. In order to be obscene, it has to appeal predominantly to the prurient interest-- the interest in sexualarousal. Secondly, it has to be patently offensive in its depiction of sexual or excretory acts.

three things have to be true in order for the material to be obscene. It's a very small category of outlawed speech.The first two, none of this makes any sense. But the first two things, that has to appeal to the prurient interest, it has to turn you on, one professor has said. The second thingsays it has to gross you out. It has to be patently offensive. It has to do both. It has to both turn you on and gross you out.