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Chris -- 2018-04-11
With over 38,000 ghits, this seems too prevalent to be a mere misspelling. Rather, I think it reflects the idea of purity (or impurity) getting mixed up with prurience. Examples:
But obscenity is not CONTENT, just a purient experience.
www.libertynewsforum.com/.../YaBB/YaBB. … 1135650317
Yet in a sense, Spielberg has taken a seemingly purient activity and made it a sort … Films in general also legitimize the purient aspects of voyeurism, ...
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/7073/essay1b.html
Then, giving in to a more purient side, I bought a Mercedes 1995 C220.
www.cyburbia.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-241.html
The people who abused the guards have been punished and releasing more photos for purient interest in just plain wrong for obvious reasons.
www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow/allcomments?pid=25313
I still believe that the show relies purely and simply on purient titillation and the standard conventions of soapie character identification.
larvatusprodeo.net/2005/06/28/teen-sex-uncut/
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