In defense of pornography

Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak had a pious stereo rant, broadcast on Salem, damning porno as an evil threat to marriage and family life, citing as evidence widespread use of pornography and the declining birthrate in Japan and USA. They mocked libertarians who allegedly want to possess nuclear weapons privately, bashed LGBT, compared them to people eating styrofoam, blamed abortion on Marquis de Sade and Simone de Beauvoir, and sobbed that women were degraded by pornography that robbed them of their dignity, created in God's image to wear modest clothing and flat shoes, like men do.

 

Just for fun, let's start with nuclear weapons. They were a private invention. There is no collective or bureaucratic genius. Nuclear secrets were leaked to Russia and to Israel by private citizens. You could build one in your garage, if you have access to enriched uranium. The guys who create and consume pornography are not likely to stockpile nuclear weapons. That's something that appeals to militarized Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Communists, who jointly threaten 99% of the world population. Goofy libertarians are a small minority. It's hilarious that Sock Puppet Joe thinks white supremacy is a threat. In reality, many thousands are killed and carjacked by blacks like clockwork. The obvious threat to American society is heroin imported from Europe, cocaine imported from Columbia, and fentanyl imported from China, all of it smuggled through a porous Mexican border that Joe opened for political advantage. Porno has nothing to do with human trafficking, sexual assault, teen pregnancy, fatherless homes, EBT, fake mail-in ballots, or racial inclusion. Porno is 99% white, over 18, and consensual.

 

I know a great deal about pornography. The very hottest porno of all is self-produced with a wife, not intended for distribution. Generally speaking, there is very little money in porno, except where it is prohibited or heavily taxed, creating an underground market. Same thing with narcotics. People pay top dollar for that which is forbidden. There's big money in bootleg cigarettes, moonshine, pharmaceutical opiates, identify theft, and stolen hand guns. I don't consume or promote any of those life crushing but profitable underground commodities. I smoke legal cigarettes, drink legal whiskey, use a legal passport identity, and elected not to carry a gun because I labor in a verklempt foxhole as an indie novelist who writes sex scenes that make readers blush and who thereafter resolve to ignore me. My nonfiction titles on liberty and justice attracted ridicule and one-star Amazon reviews. I don't like death threats. Some men walk tall and thrive on violence. I've met such men, had to deal with it, hated it.

 

That's why I like women. Not teenagers. Not spoiled soccer moms, business women, or ugly tramps. No evangelicals, Jews, or social justice warriors, please. Just normal babes who like normal men for intimate progress from first kiss to high voltage bedroom experiments involving photography. I've been married several times and I always enjoyed it — ten years, fifteen years, twenty years at a crack. Whether any of them liked being married to me is debatable. It's difficult to keep a wife happy if you fail to earn ample money on a regular basis.

 

Perhaps porno cost me a profitable career as an attorney or a broadcaster or some other kind of male prostitution that involves smiling and bumping fists with strangers. If so, it was a salutary influence. I got to lay some exceptionally beautiful women, including a blonde Playboy centerfold, making real that which was merely fantasized by millions of teenagers gawking at photos. I was free to speak the truth in my novels, that hot water seeks its own level at age 25 or slightly earlier for the bold and beautiful.

 

Older now, unable to make good use of pornography or willing partners, I think it's important to pass along what I know about men and women. There are 7 billion of them. Explore.

 

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