disapproval If you describe someone as prurient, you mean that they show too much interest in sexual matters. We read the gossip written about them with prurient interest. = salacious. having or showing too much interest in sex - used to show disapproval (present participle of prurire )
characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"