pruriencies

The free contact of the naked body with air and water and light makes for the health of the body; familiarity with the sight of the body abolishes petty pruriencies, trains the sense of beauty, and makes for the health of the soul.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

He was replaced in his old charge, and seems to have spent the rest of his life quietly in the country, enjoying the fresh air and the old English sports -- 'repenting at leisure moments,' as Shakspeare has it, of the early pruriencies of his muse; or, as the same immortal bard says of

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2 George Gilfillan 1845

He was replaced in his old charge, and seems to have spent the rest of his life quietly in the country, enjoying the fresh air and the old English sports -- 'repenting at leisure moments,' as Shakspeare has it, of the early pruriencies of his muse; or, as the same immortal bard says of

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

Company, and support these _pruriencies_ of noble blood.

Newton Forster The Merchant Service Frederick Marryat 1820

Greek statues and classical books, but of modern pruriencies and shallowness and irresponsibility. "

The Emancipated George Gissing 1880