Cathiesradiocafe has never been a political editorial. I simply make observations about life and ask for your input. Sometimes, though, something in the news just hits me and I know I have to write about it. GOP candidate Rick Santorum says that if elected to the Presidency, he would hire an Attorney General to enforce obscenity laws and ban “hard core” pornography. Wow! That is a very bold statement . I’m not sure who he is trying to win over with that statement but he must truly believe in his call to govern our moral decisions. I don’t know about you but I’m pretty sure I don’t want this guy or really any person making my personal lifestyle decisions for me.
The porn industry is HUGE. In 2006, revenue for pornography, in this country alone, was over $13 billion. That was more that Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, Google, E-bay, and Netflix combined. That’s a lot of people choosing to look at dirty pictures! Every second, 28258 people check in with their favorite lusty sites. Who? You ask? Is watching all this porn? We are. People everywhere, including our very own bible belt. The number one city in the US for porn use in 2006 was not The Big Apple, or decadent Las Vegas, but Elmhurst, Illinois. It would appear as though we have become obsessed with sex. Have we always been this absorbed by our sexuality? Is this a new phenomenon? Or is it because it is now available to all of us via the internet?
The porn industry is HUGE. In 2006, revenue for pornography, in this country alone, was over $13 billion. That was more that Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, Google, E-bay, and Netflix combined. That’s a lot of people choosing to look at dirty pictures! Every second, 28258 people check in with their favorite lusty sites. Who? You ask? Is watching all this porn? We are. People everywhere, including our very own bible belt. The number one city in the US for porn use in 2006 was not The Big Apple, or decadent Las Vegas, but Elmhurst, Illinois. It would appear as though we have become obsessed with sex. Have we always been this absorbed by our sexuality? Is this a new phenomenon? Or is it because it is now available to all of us via the internet?
The advertising industry has known for a long time, sex sell products. We like sex. We respond to sexy images. “Sexy” is a very favorable adjective in our world and it is used to convey our idyllic man, woman, lipstick, shoes, scents.. everything that we deem worthy of spending our hard earned money on. Does it surprise anyone that we also buy sex? There is crazy money being spent on watching sex, in all its various ways. If you can imagine it.. it’s out there. You can find it. You can buy it. This industry is making way too much money for it to ever go away. The government cannot undo what is already done. Someday, you may have to pay a ridiculous tax to be able to do so, but if you want it, you will have it. And the only way that an enforcement of prohibition of pornography can be applied is if the policing of your daily life becomes available to the government. Perhaps it already is.
It won’t work, though, Mr. Santorum. Not you or anyone else will be able to control our morality. We’re in charge of that. And if we self- destruct because of our choices..that is our business, not yours.
It won’t work, though, Mr. Santorum. Not you or anyone else will be able to control our morality. We’re in charge of that. And if we self- destruct because of our choices..that is our business, not yours.
... and the name Elliot Spitzer also comes to mind.
ReplyDeletePoliticians are only looking for votes and the are targeting the religious in mind thinking there are more religious people than not. As you listen to them all they, in my opinion, there really is no one capable of running the country. Bad mouthing each other on why the other should not be president when instead they should be indicating what they will and should do for this country and ignore the other candidates.
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