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Sheesh-- arguing FOR porn, even if it isn't your cup of tea, is a no-winner with anyone over 35. If you're under 35, it's a no-brainer. It's part of contemporary scenery, spurred on by the acquisition of home video cameras that look better than state-of-the-art equipment from 10 years ago.
And it's ubiquitous. MTV is virtually soft-core porn, and it's on the TV every day. About the only thing real porn has on anything that's R-rated is gynecological accuracy. Strip clubs, lap dances, and stripper poles are part of the culture now-- whether the Last of the True Ostensibly-Feminist Believers want to accept it or not.
And the fact that the Left can't come to terms with it's fundamentally Puritanical perspective on something as widespread as porn is just another symptom of our ineffectiveness. As long as someone else getting off has no deleterious relationship or societal consequences, who cares? And why should you care? Or do Lefties only believe in privacy if it involves the inside of a woman's uterus?
FWIW, the puritan nature that runs through the Left is killing the Left. It wrecks the #1 tool that we have on the Right-- the belief that what individuals do in private, especially for fun, is their own business. And lest one forgets, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll moved us quite a ways on opposing a nasty war that happened a generation ago-- besides giving the participants a hell of a memory set, and some great music to get old by.
Time to get over it, Rebecca. Porn is here to stay. And maybe-- just maybe-- if we canned the puritanical rap, we might find some more recruits in the younger ranks. Because our puritanism has already turned them off-- and to too many, instead of being the societal role models for change that we need to be, we're already in the dustbin of irrelevance.
