#prudishness

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality

Evergreens are prudish. Evergreens over the holidays are a tease. ↗

— Bauvard

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#humor #prudishness #trees #funny