The particular plays, though none are free from it, which most abound in this ribald fun-for fun it always is, never mere pruriency for its own sake, Aristophanes has a deal of the old 'esprit gaulois' about him-are the 'Peace' and, as might be expected from its theme, lending itself so readily to suggestive allusions and situations, above all the 'Lysistrata.
"The Eleven Comedies"
Aristophanes et al
He was resolved to attract notice at any price-by putting on cap and bells, and by the pruriency which stains his best work.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
pruriency is the bad way; and with that he has never had anything to do.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann