I do have a deep desire to escort each one of you to the favorite places I call home (Utah). From driving the Aspen Grove Loop to hiking the Narrows in Zions National Park. I would love to share with you all the places I find solace and peace. Nature is my Cathedral/Synagog/Temple. The only thing: I just have to get to the ocean at least once a year. The beaches of the Great Salt Lake just doesn’t do it. How they let the lake get so diluted (you can’t float like you used to) and the industry that has raped the minerals from the lake need to take their profits and restore the lake to its original grandeur.

That’s just me venting a little. Sorry.

…Oh, wait.

Rather than jumping with this article to the laughable conclusion that freedom from strict moral guidelines somehow makes blue-voting atheists the moral paragons of America, let’s try to get the hint of this research, as some commenters already have:

Higher online porn consumption may not represent greater demand, but the opposite: less diverse “outlets”. It seems self-evident that online porn consumers would be more active in regions where porniness was generally harder to find.

Conservative thought is the major barricade against porn in this country. Would erasing religion magically decrease porn, or only decrease our guilt as we glutted ourselves with it? And if a few conservatives do have personal experience, doesn’t it make their argument against porn all the stronger? Do we call smokers hypocrites when they oppose tobacco, or do we rather think they know exactly what they’re talking about?

Once again, if not for conservative policy makers, we’d have porn sitting out open-air on street corners like in East Asia and places. You could hardly avoid it if you tried. Itty-bitty kids would be growing up with it.

…Oh, wait.

A few years ago we had one guy who was so vociferous in his public anti-porn stance that he became the very beast he riled against. The authorities found pornography on his computer. I remember the lone liberal voice (Tom Barberi) on a local talk radio show made mention of how ironic it is sometimes to find the very person ranting about porn is himself addicted to the stuff.

Richard Rush,
I do have Netflix. I have added the “Caio” movie to my queue and I eagerly wait to view it when it becomes available on DVD…(since I doubt it will ever show in a theater in Salt Lake City.) However, I wasn’t too impressed with the movie Latter-Days when I did finally obtain a copy.

Let me be clear here: there are no…none…zip….zero…porno movies obtainable in any retail stores in Utah. I’m lucky to even find those calendars of shirtless cowboys in a trendy card boutique near here. Plus, I haven’t seen a copy of the Returned Missionaries calendar that got that guy in trouble and his diploma from BYU suspended.

But, I L O V E this place…hellhole and all.