Salaciousness

The cock, from his salaciousness, is allowed to be a short lived animal; but how long these birds live, if left to themselves, is not yet well ascertained by any historian.

[…] he began a tale which cannot be retold here, but which delighted the boys as much by its salaciousness as by its vivacity.

I giggle with the most revolting salaciousness over La Vie Parisienne, when I get hold of one in Chicago, yet I shouldn’t even try to hold your hand.

Fokine did not mince words in describing the infamous closing moments of the ballet [L’Après-midi d’un faune], charging that Diaghilev used Nijinski as nothing more than a tool to shock his audience. He hinted that scandal was Diaghilev’s goal, for salaciousness would attract an audience.

[…] he actually used the word erotic, snagging his tongue on it as though the salaciousness of the syllables themselves was enough to arouse him […]