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1. in a prudish manner; "she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste" (同)puritanically

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For the American football player, see Ronnie Prude.

A prude (Old French prude meaning honourable woman) is a person who is described as (or would describe themselves as) being concerned with decorum or propriety, significantly in excess of normal prevailing standards. They may be perceived as being more uncomfortable than most with sexuality or nudity.

The name is generally considered a pejorative term to suggest fear and contempt of human sexuality and excessive, unusual modesty stemming from such a negative view of sexuality. It is hence unflattering, often used as an insult. A person with such attitude to sexuality may have reservations about nudity, public display of sexual affection, discussion of sexual matters, participating in romantic or sexual activity—reservations that exceed normal prevailing community standards. Exhibiting fear and discomfort with sexuality may be associated with advocating censorship of sexuality or nudity in the media, avoiding or condemning any public display of affection.

The degree of prudery understood as fearful contempt of human sexuality can vary among different cultures and traditions.

Another use of "prude" is as a label and an insult directed to anybody having reservations resulting from standards of modesty or even any moral standards and beliefs or which are not shared by the offender. Thus one can be labelled a "prude" for expressing reservations about drinking alcohol, or consuming other drugs, or participating in mischief.

In this meaning, the term generally has a relative sense. For example, one may be viewed as having relatively lax standards regarding sexuality and drug usage compared to the overall population in which one resides, but compared to a smaller, specific subculture with more permissive standards, one may appear to be unduly strict and thus be labelled a prude when one refuses to participate in more liberal seeming behaviors.

Synonyms of "prude" include; priscilla, prissy, goody-goody and Mrs Grundy.

See also

• Prig
• Puritan
• Sex-negativity
• Fuddy-duddy

References

English Journal

• La Mettrie's soul: vertigo, fever, massacre, and The Natural History.

• Hacking I.Author information University of Toronto.AbstractLa Mettrie's materialist and monistic philosophy is that of a military doctor, knowing what dysentery did to his own mind, watching his regiment destroyed at Fontenoy, running French field hospitals in Flanders. He learned brain science in the injuries of his fellows. He knew pain and that man's main positive drive was sex. He despised the prudish hypocrisies of feeble materialists like Diderot and Voltaire. His brutal military life and his hedonism made him the most coherent monist against Cartesian dualism. His study of vertigo is sound clinical medicine, which well accords with one trend in today's medical practice.
• Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine.Can Bull Med Hist.2009;26(1):179-202.
• La Mettrie's materialist and monistic philosophy is that of a military doctor, knowing what dysentery did to his own mind, watching his regiment destroyed at Fontenoy, running French field hospitals in Flanders. He learned brain science in the injuries of his fellows. He knew pain and that man's mai
• PMID 19831303

• Lenin, sexuality and psychoanalysis.

• Chemouni J.Author information Université de Basse-Normandie, Caen.AbstractWhile Trotsky's relatively favourable adherence to Freudian ideas is well documented, little is known about Lenin's attitude toward psychoanalysis. The author's extensive research shows that, far from being the follower of Freudian ideas depicted by some historians, the father of the October Revolution rejected psychoanalytic theory and, in particular, the perspective he considered "idealistic" and the importance attributed to sexuality. Lenin's prudish personality, the influence of his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya and their ideology resulted in the exclusion of psychoanalysis from the construction of the New Man that Marxism was planning to undertake in Russia.
• Psychoanalysis and history.Psychoanal Hist.2004;6(2):135-59.
• While Trotsky's relatively favourable adherence to Freudian ideas is well documented, little is known about Lenin's attitude toward psychoanalysis. The author's extensive research shows that, far from being the follower of Freudian ideas depicted by some historians, the father of the October Revolut
• PMID 21850802

• [Flushes, blushing or hot flushes].

• Merlen JF, Coget JM.AbstractApart from physiological flushes represented by emotional or prudish blushing, post-prandial flushes and menopausal hot flushes, various pathologic flushes exist of various etiologies: endocrine, dysmetabolic, histaminic and iatrogenic. Their pathogenicity is based mainly on local metabolites secretion provoking vasodilatation of the intermediary microcirculation rather than of the terminal microcirculation. Treatment is a function of etiology and therefore of the patient's history and results of clinical examination, functional exploration and standard biologic tests.
• Journal des maladies vasculaires.J Mal Vasc.1987;12(3):285-90.
• Apart from physiological flushes represented by emotional or prudish blushing, post-prandial flushes and menopausal hot flushes, various pathologic flushes exist of various etiologies: endocrine, dysmetabolic, histaminic and iatrogenic. Their pathogenicity is based mainly on local metabolites secret
• PMID 3625050

Japanese Journal

• 鎖国前後における日本人の西洋人観・黒人観の心理--歴史的背景

• 坂西 友秀
• 埼玉大学紀要 〔教育学部〕 教育科学 51(2), 73-95, 2002
• … Most Japanese considered Westerners to be ill mannered and prudish because much of their conduct conflicted with Japanese culture. …
• NAID 120001371394

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