Jubal shook his head. "Your behavior was momentarily prudish, but not from prudish motivations.  You are not a prude, Ben.  A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.  You are almost entirely free of this prevalent evil.  You adjusted, at least with passable urbanity, to many things which did not fit your code of propriety whereas a true-blue, stiff-necked, incorrigible prude would promptly have affronted that delightful tattooed lady and stomped out.  Dig deeper..  Do you wish a hint?"