1. A few quick thoughts on Stormy Daniels,Donald Trump, Edmund Burke, Hugh Hefner, National Review, Guy Davenport, Theodore Sturgeon, chivalry & patriarchy.
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2. Donald Trump is the most X-rate president ever. Weeks before election he paid off porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about affair (including attempted threesome with another adult cinema thespian.
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3. "How can Trump be the Ron Jeremy of presidents & still have the support of evangelical Christians & social conservatives," liberals marvel. "Isn't that hypocritical." No, not really.
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4. It's true that during the great Porn Wars that raged from 1960s to 1990s, religious right (Falwell & co.) made censoring smut one of their big issues.
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5. But even during the Porn Wars, there was a minority position among conservatives, inflected by libertarianism & 18th century aristocratic libertinism, that was open to smut.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
But did anyone in that minority position identify with the Christian right?
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