"The primary purpose of every piece has to be to inform and serve, not to frighten or titillate, " Davidson says.

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Calling Day a booth babe is tantamount to calling her an ignorant, scantily dressed female whose only purpose is to titillate men.

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The books of other renegade spies like Peter Wright and Kim Philby titillate with juicy anecdotes about fieldcraft, the latest in bugging techniques and political plots.

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Too often, in fact, they do little more than titillate the cognoscenti by being as deliberately "transgressive" as possible, in the process shocking innocently earnest viewers who fail to realize that transgressive art has no purpose other than to shock.

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