{"id":27885,"date":"2012-05-12T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T04:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/nation-of-prudes.html"},"modified":"2012-05-12T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T04:04:41","slug":"nation-of-prudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/nation-of-prudes.html","title":{"rendered":"Nation of Prudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should it make any difference to anyone if a former porn star reads a children&#39;s story to first graders?  She wasn&#39;t advertised as a porn star. She didn&#39;t read a pornographic tale to the kids.  There was no stripping involved, or other pornographic acts.  <\/p>\n<p>So what were the parents who complained about it worried about?  Porniness rubbing off on their tots?  Little Suzie looking her up on Wikipedia and deciding to be just like her favorite children&#39;s book reader?  Little Johnny saying, &quot;Hey, I saw Daddy watching your movie the other night?&quot; The idea of a &quot;fallen woman,&quot; even one with a new, non-porn career, daring associate with Our Children?<\/p>\n<p>Weird and disturbing country we live in.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t Steven)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fslate%2Fblogs%2Fxx_factor%2F2011%2F11%2F11%2Fwhat_does_it_take_to_put_a_past_in_porn_completely_to_bed_%2F109469933.jpg.CROP.rectangle-medium.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2011\/11\/11\/what_does_it_take_to_put_a_past_in_porn_completely_to_bed_.html?wpisrc=obinsite'>The Inescapability of Porn<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat does it take to put a past in porn completely to bed?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZnrhAAbDxAq' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should it make any difference to anyone if a former porn star reads a children&#39;s story to first graders? She wasn&#39;t advertised as a porn star. She didn&#39;t read a pornographic tale to the kids. There was no stripping involved, or other pornographic acts. So what were the parents who complained about it worried about? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/nation-of-prudes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nation of Prudes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8713,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/31\/getting_our_pri.html","url_meta":{"origin":27885,"position":0},"title":"Getting our priorities straight","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 31-Aug-05 6:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Obviously the War on Terror is well in hand. 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