Translation of "Prüderie" in English

After all these years, prudishness runs deep.

The book was Tucholsky's response to the prudery of the Wilhelminian bourgeoisie.

An increasing prudery saw everything sexual as dirty and dangerous.

The prudery of the Victorian age became the new norm.

It seems to us, that this prudery will lead to numerous negative consequences.

A student newspaper describes the happening as "incomplete and uncritical prudery".

The first German palaestra in Charlottenburg near Berlin had been built by Jansen, one of the first light and air baths was on his estate, and his capital worked everywhere it was necessary to overcome prudery and concealment and replace it with the noble openness of nudity.

In other words, the open acceptance of the body and its functions gradually turned into prudery.

In addition to its own qualities, the painting also acts as a precious witness to the original state of its model: the children lying at the entrance to the church, the old woman bent double in the cart drawn by a poor woman in rags, and the bloated body of the corpse in the right foreground have all been painted over out of prudishness at a later date on the Vienna panel.

In an age of prudery and hypocrisy Freud approached sexual matters in a strictly scientific spirit.

Whereas many artists before and after Courbet captured nude women on canvas, depicting them as allegorical figures complete with moralizing interpretations, or else using inventive metaphors like shells or grottoes to represent the female genitals, Courbet revolted against academic conventions and the prudery of his contemporaries.

But what is worse is that he comes close to right-wing populist argumentation when he alleges that the signatories to Merrill's petition are after "censorship," so as to "fence in the potency of art" and to finish off artistic freedom "in the name of a new prudery."

It seems that the real reason for the antimasturbation campaign was simply a growing sexual prudery.

A growing prudery alienated men and women from themselves and each other, and by the middle of the 19th century virtually all natural bodily functions had become taboo.

But even if the untrained eye might see it that way, her works are not a product of vulgarity, but a testimony of a world free of prejudice, gender norms and prudery.

As the age of Victorian prudishness drew to an end, giving way to the era of Art Nouveau, the way women were represented on securities veered increasingly towards the erotic.

Its effects can range from healthy common sense that keeps you out of difficulties to severe repression or prudery.

After the turn of the century and the end of Victorian prudishness, the portrayal of women became more and more erotic.

International meetings are the wonderful aspect of Tuesday evenings: far from home and prudery, where there often isn't a swinger club culture or where people are too afraid of being caught by disagreeable neighbours, more and more swingers seeking adventure travel from all over the world to Berlin, to communicate in the international language of lust and to widen their sexual horizons.