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at the first Presidential debates between It happens, almost cyclically, and usually
himself and Clinton, and viewed in record- when someone like a Reagan has whipped up
breaking numbers around the world, none of the more “moral” and conservative fundamental
the Senators and other GOP “lawmakers” had Christians into a decency frenzy.
anything to say; they either weren’t speaking
to reporters, or, if they were, actually claimed After all, thirty years ago there was the
to have not watched or been able to watch that Meese Commission Report, which people
most important of clashes of the party-leaders laughed at because they had pseudo-scientific
testimony from social scientists that reeked of
and thus simply explained they weren’t in a
BS, and thirty years before that a Commission
position to comment.
started at the end of Lyndon B. Johnson’s
Yeah, right. administration and finished in the first year of
Nixon’s which had to be completely rejected
Now Utah’s lawmakers have voted against because the admittedly more rigorous studies
comprehensive sex education in schools and found, for example, that porn caused no harm,
voted (back) in sex-abstinence education. sex education should be taught in school, and
in fact when, for example, porn was completely
According to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune, legalized in Denmark, sex crimes did not
“Laureen Simper of the United Women’s Forum increase but decreased.
said the intricacies of sexual relationships are
best left to conversations between parents and A recent Psychology Today article quoted
the US Justice Department’s National Crime
their children.”
Victimization Survey; since 1995, sexual
No wonder they’re having such a problem assault has gone down 44%. This was just one
with teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted of many studies cited. The author’s conclusion?
diseases there; does anyone reading this
“More porn. Less rape.”
remember ever being excited, let alone having
any enthusiasm or even planning on telling
Now this is neither here nor there if you’re
their mom or dad they thought they were
in the business of porn. However ironic, the
getting laid this weekend?
more the conservative side of the fight pushes
against porn, the more porn is forbidden and
...and yet part of the “real” reason these
morally frowned upon, the more successful it
Republicans say they want porn blocked is
is. The more there is of it.
because of its “inauthentic views of sexuality”.
Somehow, one doubts these parents would
These Edwin Meeses and Sam Brownbacks
have an any more authentic view...
and supposed anti-porn crusaders (who if you
judge by lifestyles and divorce rates and the
Anyhow, Pornhub have actually launched
infidelities of Trump and Newt Gingrich etc...
an authentic “Sexual Health Center”, in
are just playing to their constituency), these
conjunction with noted clinical psychologist
holier-than-you-or-me guardians of public
Dr. Laurie Betito, so add and send the link to
decency, innocent children and American
PornHub.com/sex/ in all your porn if you want
Society, are in fact advertising for porn. Because
to help those poor Utah parents help those
money; or, in their case, votes?
unfortunate Utah teens (time to set up that site
on another domain, there, Pornhub).
It doesn’t matter. Anti-porn, obscenity
prosecutions hardly ever succeed in this and
Anyhow, back to the panic. Don’t panic. It
most other free, democratic countries because
happens every thirty years or so; just wait, the
of freedom of expression and constitutions and
Trump regime will set up their own commission,
privacy amendments and all that good stuff.
probably overseen by the newly appointed
Trump nominated Attorney General Jeff In the end, we have spikes in porn revenues
Sessions, who during his confirmation hearings during these socially conservative blowbacks.
said that he would pursue pornography More porn? More money.
prosecutions and even revive Bush the elder’s
Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. See, kids? Just like in Utah.

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