Sniff! Sniff! Is That the Stench of Santorum I Smell?

OK, it’s time to take off the love glove and dick-slap Rick Santorum for his calculated attack on the U.S. porn industry.

Come on, Rick, can’t you find a real issue to incite the mindless masses of Christian conservatives who have the mistaken notion that you are relevant.

You’re not relevant. You’re not realistic. You are so far out of touch with reality, you will need to catch a rocket ship just to be within sight of reality.

Rick, pornography didn’t fuck up the economy. Pornography also didn’t send our troops halfway around the world to fight for lower gas prices. Pornography isn’t behind homelessness, the Occupy movement, Al Qaida, Iran’s nuclear aspirations, double-digit unemployment, or China’s rise to economic prominence.

Pornographers are people too. Hell, even Mitt Romney believes in corporate citizenship, and pornographers are just like corporations.

The porn industry is made up of people. Real people with real, every-day problems, like paying the rent, keeping the lights and heat turned on¸ buying groceries, and raising families.

Just like you, Rick. They’re people. Real people.

Good people.

Honest people, who believe everyone has a right to be whoever he or she wants to be within their own space. That means letting us use our bodies to our best advantage, to our own ultimate benefit.

Pleasure is one of those benefits. Pleasure was created to reward man and woman for their good works, not to be something repressed, of which one should be ashamed, or to be regulated against our own personal will.

Pornographers provide an outlet for that pleasure for many of us. As free Americans, it is our choice to buy and watch pornography, in the privacy of our own homes, or in a theater or arcade that we choose to patronize.

Rick Santorum, for his part, says pornography is "toxic to marriages and relationships," and contributes to "misogyny and violence against women" including prostitution and sex trafficking.

It does? I would think abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs might be the culprits, since you’re more likely to find drugs and booze in a hooker’s place than boxes of “Debbie Does Dallas” or “Shemale Strokers”.

Let’s be honest, Rick. You don’t have any real issue on which you can rally your small-minded constituency, do you? You are whipping up the flame on the porn industry because you know the simpletons who believe you’d be a great president are too fucking stupid to recognize a snake selling his own oil.

So thanks for “looking out” for us, Rick, but I think I’ll pass on your brand of morality and American living. I like my America with lots of freedom, and a healthy seasoning of choice.

And pass the remote.