By God, Diet & Exercise Does Make Time Flow Backwards!

[elfs]

Last month, 42 senators wrote Attorney General Eric Holder and encouraged him to start more obscenity prosecutions against mainstream pornographers. Orrin Hatch especially said that the Justice Department's focus on bizarre fetish sites like Max Hardcore, material designed to shock and repulse, just allows the continued mainstreaming of the not-quite-so-revolting.

Legal scholars rightfully point out that the sheer popularity of this stuff indicates that it is acceptable by community standards, and prosecuting it would be mindbogglingly difficult.

Over at the Christianist news organization One News Now, Morality in Media spokescreep Pat Trueman bangs the drum louder:

We know from the brain science research that men will start out with adult pornography and move to more deviant and harder material, and many deviate down to child pornography. So by not prosecuting the adult pornographers, we're in essence creating child pornographers.

If that's the case, then my current health kick must be making time go backwards: back in the 1990s I watched and read all manner of seriously fetishy S&M stuff, but these days my porn consumption is both way down and astonishingly tame by previous measure. Either time in my lightcone is mysteriously flowing backwards, or Trueman is as false as they come.

[Wow, the music player is completely psychic again. I swear, I didn't pull that up deliberately.]

Comments

[gromm.livejournal.com]

More like "We hate porn, so therefore we must come up with an argument - even if it doesn't have any basis in reality - against it".

It almost sounds logical. But what have the statistics on child porn and abuse done since 1995 again?