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I think we all know what he means. He means the liberal equivalent to the "socially conservative prude". Which certainly does exist.

(Also this is only tangentially related but why is being prude a bad thing? I had a female friend in high school that would get insulted for being too prude. I don't think people really realize the way these concepts get applied in reality. People are allowed to be prude just as they're allowed to be libertines.)



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