The LA Daily News is doing a lush series on porn. They're flash files, so be aware of that, though nothing I saw was not work safe. The ubiquity of porn chronicled in that series in America today is worth keeping in mind when we simultaneously have a teacher convicted of a felony because she inadvertently exposed some of her students to porn pop-ups (spyware which another teacher mistakenly installed).
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Matt at the Behavorial Ecology Blog is asking for the most perverted queries. His is: "cats as sexual partners." Here are some which have raised my eyebrows:
When I was a kid around 1980 me and my buddies used to
In the new Atlantic, Ross Douthat argues that porn is a moral slippery slope, and is part of the adultery continuum:
Porn is a big business. Every year, Americans spend $4 billion on video pornography, which makes the industry larger than the N.F.L., the N.B.A. or Major League Baseball.
The idea of them whining to the sky fairy made me laugh. In their own belief system, isn't the sky fairy a world-scale peeping tom, spending forever seeing all the people in the world naked through their clothes?
There's a war against porn? Where? It seems as successful as the war against drugs, the war against child poverty and the war against insurgents in Iraq. Perhaps, declaring a war against something is a way of acknowledging its permanence.
War on porn? I surrender.
Googling Sasha Grey, one of the porn actress profiled in the series, led me to this rather amusing youtube clip of her on some entertainment news type program, includes an intervention by a "celebrity" doctor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRDpXQYNQGo