Porn.
It is bad. Dirty. UnChristianlike. Sinful. A darn public health crisis!
Well, at least the Republican Party declared it so earlier this month during their draft party platform meeting earlier this month.
CNN reports that North Carolina delegate Mary Frances Forrester , aka Ms. Prude, proposed this amendment while clutching her pearls and waving a rosary around the meeting as she wailed about her husband liking that "smut" and talking to her with words that she could never utter out loud for fear that God would come and strike her down.
She said, as she wailed about the incredible danger porn poses:
"The internet must not become a safe haven for predators, Pornography, with its harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions. We encourage states to continue to fight this public menace and pledge our commitment to children's safety and well-being. We applaud the social networking sites that bar sex offenders from participation."
Well, in fairness, she did mention children, so maybe she was trying to make it health crisis for child pornography, which IS truly abhorrent. Unfortunately, she labeled ALL porn under the same wide paintbrush.
Fast forward a few weeks to the RNC in Cleveland. Upon this city descended tens of thousands of God fearing, mostly Christian, white men. Men who stand by their wives, never cheat (chuckle, cough, choking), abstain from drugs and other "bad" things.
But wait a minute.
During the one week of the RNC, online porn viewership was higher in Cleveland than in New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles, according to xHamster, a leading porn site.
The News Observer reports that viewership was a full 184 percent higher than usual! How much porn were they watching? In between all the fear mongering, hate speech, Hillary bashing...were they streaming in the bathroom on their iPhones?
Total number of view just during that week - 873,294 views.
Also, xHamster notes that one of the trending search words was "Trump" which, when thinking about it, is utterly disgusting. Were they searching for Trump related porn? Maybe a character that looked like him? Or did they mean to go to google and just fell into a porn site? Is that the excuse? "Those boobs on screen looked just like the OO in Google"
GOP, the Grand Old party of Porn.
