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  • Forget morals. It’s the stupidity of those porn-watching MPs that should worry us
    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/forget-morals-its-the-stupidity-of-those-pornwatching-mps-that-should

    More than 300,000 attempts were made to access porn websites at the Houses of Parliament in the past 12 months. That’s an average of 820 times a day. That’s a lot of busy wankers. As John McCain proved this week – caught playing poker on his iPhone during the three-hour hearing of the Senate committee on Assad’s regime – even when your work is crucial and world-changing, we all need a little downtime. If only McCain has been caught playing Snake, this parrallel would be even more bountiful.

    Top of the league in the publicly funded work-frottage league was November 2012 when porn was accessed 114,844 times. I can only imagine that this was due to our MPs and their retinue hearing about Cameron’s plans to make internet providers issue an opt-in button on tits and arse, and them having to rush to their desks to fully acquaint themselves with exactly what level of smut could be “corroding childhood”.

    How can one speak confidently about the perils of porn if one has not fully immersed oneself in in the culture? One time, or two times or, well, 114,000 with your trousers round your ankles and a big filing cabinet against the door?

    (Et, oui, c’est via Angry Arab…)