{"id":21440,"date":"2013-08-01T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21440"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:05:38","slug":"stereotypes-of-pornography-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/stereotypes-of-pornography-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes of pornography consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Delingpole<\/a> had far too much fun writing this column:<\/p>\n

You may be aware that David Cameron \u2014 as part of a secret, Lynton Crosby-inspired operation codenamed Suck Up Shamelessly To The Embittered Authoritarian Killjoy Harpies At Mumsnet \u2014 has decreed that as from next year the default option when you sign a contract with your new internet provider will be \u2018No porn in this household, thank you. I think it\u2019s a disgrace.\u2019<\/p>\n

Superficially (and does this coalition ever think any other way?) I can see this makes a lot of sense. After all, what do a growing national debt, falling living standards, rising inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, out-of-control immigration, Weimar-style money-printing, a burgeoning new housing bubble, a failed health service and a collapsing infrastructure matter when you\u2019ve got the most important problem of our times, so to speak, in hand, viz. blokes sneaking a quick one off the wrist while their missus has popped down to Waitrose to stock up on Mabel Pearman\u2019s Burford Brown eggs, Isigny Ste Mere unsalted butter and that Duchy Originals cider on special offer at just \u00a31.45 a bottle?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to James, nowadays women are about as likely to go looking for pornography on the internet as men are:<\/p>\n

But according to some of my techie friends, this isn\u2019t the case at all. They\u2019re the ones who have to clear up all the viruses which you accidentally invited into your computer along when you were trying to Google the weather and mistakenly typed in \u2018Romanian donkey babes xxx hardcore\u2019 instead.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what one of them has to say: \u2018The very worst I came across was a shared houseful of young ladies. It took over eight hours to do just the first pass with the antivirus software. That pass removed over 58,000 pieces of malware and spyware, and just under 2,000 viruses. It took all the next day to finish cleaning their computer. I told them it was the worst case of an infected computer I had ever come across, and one asked how it had happened for it to be so bad. Easy I said. Porn sites. They all went bright red and then the hilarity ensued, as the finger pointing started.\u2019<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I realise, of course, that there are still plenty of puritans out there who feel differently. To them I quote first Thomas Sowell: \u2018What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don\u2019t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don\u2019t expect freedom to survive very long.\u2019 And second, Pastor Niemoller: \u2018First they came for the wankers\u2026\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Delingpole had far too much fun writing this column: You may be aware that David Cameron \u2014 as part of a secret, Lynton Crosby-inspired operation codenamed Suck Up Shamelessly To The Embittered Authoritarian Killjoy Harpies At Mumsnet \u2014 has decreed that as from next year the default option when you sign a contract with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,15],"tags":[389,58,408,255],"class_list":["post-21440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-technology","tag-davidcameron","tag-internet","tag-pornography","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5zO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21441,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions\/21441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}