titillate

They are written not to inform or motivate but to titillate, as if they were meant to be read furtively, at night, in the dark.

A work of glaring artifice, “Miller’s Girl,” written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett, is being touted as a psychological thriller, but it’s too vapid and silly to do much besides titillate.

Even by his low standards, attempting to titillate his elderly fanbase with clearly false gossip about a woman they've never heard of was a stretch.

In addition to promoting links that titillate, algorithms select content that confirms biases and fuels hyper-partisanship by luring people into filter bubbles in which they mostly read and watch things that support their worldview.

This was a purely contemporary idea of loucheness, employed to shock and titillate audiences who might no longer respond to period sleaze.