Despite his innocent appearance, Buttons is a promiscuous womanizer with no sense of sexual propriety.
She was meant to persuade Romans of both sexes and every class, whether married or unmarried, to cherish the traditional sexual proprieties and morality known to please the gods and benefit the State.
Was Mr. Mackenzie coming on to Ms. Best, as the defense contends, and violating company policy regarding sexual proprieties?
Unlike Efrosians, humans had rather quaint and curious notions about marital fidelity and sexual propriety.
"No political party is in a position to cast the first stone when it comes to sexual propriety," said The Daily Telegraph.
Which was precisely the point: in post-Franco Spain, offending sexual propriety, religious authority and Fascist family values in the name of pleasure was a therapeutic and a political necessity.
The mother was a Mormon and the boy adopted her rigid views regarding alcohol and sexual propriety, but not her religion.
Mr. Penn maintained a sexual propriety with his models but extracted what he found erotic about their appearance.
Conservatives too often reduce the complexity of character to a test of sexual propriety.
Margaret and Henry argue bitterly about the different standards of sexual propriety applied to men and women, and Margaret says she is leaving Henry.