Readers with a more prurient interest were not our concern.

He charges her with a prurient interest in him, and he's right.

And that does not include a prurient interest in the private lives of celebrities.

After this period of prurient interest had passed, most whites wanted nothing at all to do with the place.

Would the average person living in a contemporary society think the work serves a prurient interest?

I think we have a prurient interest in other people's failings.

Besides, people will want to believe them, such is the prurient interest in Palin.

But with him it was not merely a prurient interest.

"Not unless you have a prurient interest in what the safety director and her assistant are up to."

A key element of the decision is whether a work "appeals to the prurient interest."