Porn Patrol - It takes all kinds
 

Alaska's Senator Stevens is rebounding from his "saddest day"* by going after the filthy underbelly of society. First on the agenda: mandating a pornography rating system. It's important we know the degree of nastiness in our porn.

(It's a crappy, rigged world out there, and while I believe in some layer of protection for the underage from the of less seemly parts of society, I nearly unloaded my cornflakes on the keyboard upon first reading about this.)

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I can't wait to read transcripts of National Porn Classification Board meetings.

*Stevens is Alaska's beloved Senator who a month ago attempted to slip his ANWR-opening provision into the defense appropriations bill. What a rascal.

Now, I do see the negatives of porn, but this is really stupid. At best, it's another unenforceable law that will soon go the way of other stupid laws. At worst, it will create some stupid, costly bureaucracy to try to "rate" porn. I mean seriously, it's PORN! It already has a rating system-if you're 18+, you can watch it. Otherwise, no dice. I really don't see how a rating system will make porn any less easy to get, or easier for filtering software to block. I mean, if it's adult material, the software should block it, otherwise it shouldn't. As far as I can tell, it's a pretty binary operation. I don't see much demand for filters that will let people watch lesbian midget porn, but block out double amputee bondage sites. But I guess being in Alaska, you gotta do something to get noticed.

A porn rating system... I want the job of viewing porn to apply this rating system. :D

Isn't there better stuff for these guys to worry about other than this? Last i heard we were fighting two wars. How about a little more energy put toward that?

why is porn considered to be so evil? it doesnt make sense to me. it's all natural stuff. unless you get fucking hardcore bondage, but even then, parents should be doing this job of making sure their kids dont go on these sites.

One of these days I'm going to make a worthwhile contribution to the politics board.

Until then, I can only give you this:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/images/tags/brunette.gif

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/images/tags/blonde.gif

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/images/tags/amateur.gif

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/images/tags/xxx.gif

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/images/tags/tease.gif

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/images/tags/lesbian.gif

"This film is rated AMDPWDD by the MPAA for Asian Midget Double Penetration with Doubleheaded Dildos".

Your tax dollars at work.

These guys are really like the anti-smoking crowd.. all this stuff is just incrementalism. The true agenda is to outlaw porn.

mucho rofls

Can't wait for the "I vote Republican but I dont' support this!" set to rear their head here. Wake up.

Let's see:

BL
DP
DVDA
IR
L
BT
MILF

The websites I visit already have these designations.

[sarcasm]IMHO, this is long overdue. For too long the government has done too little too late to see to it that parents have to take no responsibility for what their kids see online, in books and on TV.[/sarcasm]

But I love how it is always dressed up in a "think of the children" routine. Over here in Ireland we're going through the same farsical nonsense with regards to adult shops and lap dancing clubs; "won't somebody please think of the children?". Don't know about you, but I don't know a whole lot of lap dancing clubs that run a "juniors night" every wednesday.

Maude Simpson approves:

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I am ashamed of the senator from my state. He is old, bitter, and almost ready to kick the bucket. (Just in time for his kid to take over, just like the current governor and his nepotism incident about placing his daughter in his former senate seat when he was elected governor He has nothing better to do with his time.

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That's Maude Flanders.

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Why? Seriously...why? When there are only two political parties, that carry any real credibility (as a Libertarian, the irony is not lost on me) choices are going to be limited. Someone can choose the Republican Party as the party that best represents the majority of thier beliefs. One doesn't necessarily have to support every plank of thier chosen party's platform...do they? That's just silly.
Take myself, as an example. I am a card carrying member of the Libertarian Party. That is the party that reflects my views the best. Do I believe in everything that the party espouses? Hell no! Have you seen some of the crap that some of them try to fly? They're freakin' nuts. :eek: Just like extremists on the right. And...on the left. ;)

While that's true...it may have come from the time that Homer and Maude checked into that seedy little notell, down by the truckstop, next to the interstate, as Mr. and Mrs. Homer J. Simpson.


(and don't start "googling" episodes. I made that crap up. ;) )

Actually that's Reveren Lovejoy's wife Helen :p

Well of course almost any party affiliation requires a degree of compromise. It just seems like a common mantra here lately, since 2004 really, with Pat Robertson, right-to-die positions, unfettered (and illegal) phone tapping, pay-for-play lobbyists, torture of war prisoners, gross incompetence (think Katrina or the prescription medicine plan), and now porn censorship. If you didn't think the Republican party represented these things you weren't paying attention.

Ha! It was a double cross trick! I caught you all out. Or something...

Actually, I'm pretty sure that in Canada, the same ratings board that watches mainstream films, watches porn as well. Their job is to classify it as 18+, and flag any content that's too degrading.

I remember a newsmagazine show (maybe Undercurrents with Wendy Mesley) interviewing the members of the classification board. They all found endlessly watching porn, to be a particularly depressing form of Hell.

That sounds like one of the most boring jobs I can think of....

Or possibly you weren't paying attention to:

unfettered (and illegal) phone tapping--Clinton, Jimmy Carter

pay-for-play lobbyists-- Abramoff-associated entities gave money to 40 of the 44 Democratic senators.

gross incompetence (think Katrina or the prescription medicine plan)--Kathleen Blanco, Ray Nagin.

Congress. and most of politics have been a cesspool for decades. Your sudden interest in scandals from only one party isn't even worthy to be called "spin."

Do you have a suggestion for cleaning up politics that applies to ALL dishonest elected officials, or are you simply proposing to kick out every Republican?

Never mind--I already know the answer.