LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The state of Arkansas is the latest to declare pornography the cause of a “public health crisis,” furthering the trend that began with a similar resolution adopted in Utah last year. Like its predecessors in other states, HR 1042, sponsored by republican Rep....

DUBLIN – When anti-porn activists talk about the pervasiveness of online porn, one of the statistics they frequently cite (typically without attribution) is a claim about the average age at which people are first exposed to porn. Depending on who is making the claim, this number...

WASHINGTON – While the fledgling Trump Administration has been something of a shit-show as an example of democratic governance, I think we’re compelled to give Trump this much over his former rival candidate Hillary Clinton: Trump’s presence in the White House is leading to...

ENSCHEDE, Netherlands – Given it was a lesbian porn video at issue in the incident, I suppose it would be off-base to say circumstance gives new meaning to the term “hanging chads,” but a porn-rooted practical joke played at a polling station in the Netherlands certainly added...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In its dogged pursuit of information concerning President Donald Trump’s tax returns, the national media may unwittingly have stumbled across an exciting new pornographic genre: “sneaky porn.” While examining Trump’s leaked 2005 tax returns, the panel of...

ATLANTA – Let’s say you were my child and I were to tell you there’s something on the internet so dangerous that merely to view it would be to risk turning yourself into a predatory monster hell-bent on sexually assaulting anyone and anything in your path in dogged pursuit of...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – If I were to tell you a lot of data suggests watching porn makes men less satisfied in their relationships, but the same data indicates porn-watching does not appear to have the same effect on women, what conclusion would you draw? From where I sit, without...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – When I’m considering the merits of someone’s argument, nothing inspires skepticism faster than rhetoric that makes careless use of superlatives or offers binary choices when other alternatives are obvious and manifest. In what could have been an...

QUEBEC – Whenever I see a headline starting with the words “science says” or “science reveals,” I immediately suspect I’m about to read a lump of bullshit written by someone vastly overstating the certainty of the scientific claim in question. In looking at the study that serves...

FULTON, N.Y. – Stop when this starts to sound familiar: A former porn star remakes herself as preacher’s wife, embraces Jesus as her personal savior and thoroughly renounces her porn past to the cheers and adulation of decent people everywhere. Sounds like the story of Theresa...