pornography
Whose Opinion About Porn Really Matters?
Damon Young of the Washington Post, and many other people, make the assumption is that most people whose opinions matter to you would feel awful if anyone found out they had worked in the adult industry. But this assumption is wrong. This isn’t the 1950s anymore. Look at it economically: You’re entitled to a good…
Read MoreAnti-Semitism and Porn
Thank you to Mira Fox for recently publishing the article, The antisemitic conspiracy behind the anti-porn movement, in Forward Magazine. I’d like to make several points on the subject: I have never seen “Jewishness” featured as a theme in porn. This would, I suppose, be classed as philo-Semitism, if it ever happened. But it seems not…
Read MoreYearbook Photos and Hypocrisy in Johns County, Florida
Once again, what Baltimore editor H. L. Mencken called the “American boobsie” takes command, but this time in St. Johns County, Florida. “Indecent exposure.” As Yelena Dzhanova reports, a bit of cleavage is showing in the yearbook photos. But in Trumpland, we mandate none at all. These ninth-grade girls are just growing and getting accustomed…
Read MoreJeffrey Toobin’s Crime of Masturbation
The story of the downfall of Jeffrey Toobin because he was caught maturbating during a video call interests me, because not for the reasons you might expect. What’s fascinating to me is the reaction of his colleagues to Toobin’s behavior during this infamous Zoom call, not Toobin’s own colossal lack of judgment. A Colossally Ordinary…
Read MorePorn Spikes During the Pandemic
According to Pornhub, on March 6, 2020, its worldwide traffic was up 11.6 percent; in the U.S., it increased 6.4 percent and, in Italy — which, at the time, was hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic — it was up 57 percent. In the porn world, if there’s a crisis beyond the pandemic and the…
Read MoreCoronavirus Fears: Avoiding Sex Service Providers and Stockpiling Toilet Paper
According to the Associated Press, brothels are closing in Europe, where sex “providers” are legal, because the demand is drying up because of the coronavirus pandemic. Prostitution is illegal in the United States and semi-legal in Canada, but demand is drying up here, too. And on both sides of the Pond, the “SPs” (Service Providers)…
Read MoreIs Nudity Porn?
According to a recent article in Yahoo Entertainment, it seems that singer and talk show host Marie Osmond is appalled at a stepmother who was walking around topless at home in front of her stepchildren. Ms. Osmond hopes the criminal justice system will charge the woman with a crime because, apparently, Marie finds nudity to…
Read MoreGood Porn and Bad Porn
What Is Good Porn? This CNN piece reeks of smarm. Does “good porn” even exist? asks the headline. The assumption is that most porn is “bad,” whatever that means. Good porn turns out to be “sexually explicit internet material” — as apparently the author and his colleagues normally call it — that respects everyone’s rights,…
Read MoreWatching Porn on Government Time
Has Porn Been Seen in Government? Watching porn on a government computer! How awful! What if a deputy assistant attorney general, or another government official, had checked their Facebook or Twitter accounts or played Candy Crush instead? Playing on company time? How horrid! Porn and Baseball For that matter, what if they had watched baseball…
Read MoreThe Difference Between “Euphoria” and Porn
A recent CNN piece by Lisa Respers France about Eric Dane is just a gloss on a Glamour magazine story about him as “Mark Sloan” in “Gray’s Anatomy” and “Cal Jacobs” in the new teen drama “Euphoria.” “McSteamy,” as he was known in “Grey’s Anatomy,” is into some pretty steamy stuff on “Euphoria” — full…
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