Comments on: Conservatives consume more porn

By: ysbaddaden

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:35:25 +0000

Conservatives consume more porn

No big surprise, have you seen their wives?

They can’t all look like:

http://www.progets.com/simpsons/pics/The%20late%20Maude%20Flanders.gif

By: P Smith

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:56:26 +0000

Where’s the surprise? I’m still waiting.

This is just more evidence of the Larry Craig, Mark Foley and Rush Limbaugh and Ted Haggard effect: those who claim to hate something are trying to hide their desire for it.

By: Batocchio

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:30:18 +0000

Thanks, funny (and unsurprising) stuff. There was some court case years back where a lawyer successfully argued that the porn consumption in the city or state of his client, the defendant, proved that his client had not violated the “community standards” with his porn shop (or something like that). On the repression angle, novelist John Fowles claimed in footnotes that in repressed Victorian England, most gentlemen lived double lives in terms of vice, and 1 in 10 buildings in London was a brothel. I’m not sure whether that figure is accurate, but prostitution was indeed rampant during that era.

By: stelpavlou

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:28:48 +0000

I nearly fell out of my chair this morning. I read C&L regularly, among others.

Thanks Susan!

By: ysbaddaden

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:47:40 +0000

I’m not surprised by these trends.

It’s all part of the old, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven,” mantra.

In the Victorian days it seemed to be enough to espouse certain values as if they were a creed, and behave another. It seemed the shame wasn’t the act, but the being so careless as to be caught.

The problem is they’re trying to enforce their moral codes on the rest of us, like gay marriage etc, family planning etc.

But perhaps they want laws passed against porn to protect them from themselves. “Oh no, my right hand is twitching again!”