ok so i’ve seen people say that lewd things are bad. why is that? i’d like to hear it from you personally.
i’ve come up with a variety of theories so far but none really track.
ok so i’ve seen people say that lewd things are bad. why is that? i’d like to hear it from you personally.
i’ve come up with a variety of theories so far but none really track.
Just prefacing this by saying that I agree that prude is more pejorative than not.
But, in that section of the Wikipedia article you pointed out, there’s 3 [citation needed]‘s and the citations that are there, are for: two thesaurus’, a book of first names, and a paper on translating indecent language.
None of these actually supports your point, because we don’t know who wrote that section or why, and they provided no proper sources for their opinions. This is one of the cases where Wikipedia is a bad source when it usually pretty solid.
The dictionary definition shows that today it’s only ever used pejoratively:
a person who is excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
I have never once heard it used as a descriptor, as that’s not how it’s used today.