Islam and Porn

"Data collected by Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon.com that tracks Web traffic around the world, revealed that pornographic sites were among the most visited Internet destinations in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon. Five porn sites in Egypt and Lebanon, and seven in Tunisia, broke the list of the top 100 most visited sites in each country, according to Al Arabiya. Two pornographic sites ranked in the top 25 most visited in Egypt. Pornography is forbidden in much of the Islamic world, and Egypt banned online porn last week. Yet some critics said that people will find ways to get their porn fix regardless of government prohibitions." The above quote is from the Huffington Post web site. Don't you just love religious hypocrisy? It seems that when it comes to porn, many followers of Islam are like the followers of Christ. They rant and rave about how porn is evil and that only the morally lax would ever indulge in it then they go home and spend all kinds of time viewing it. Jimmy Swaggart got caught not once, but twice, with porno mags in his possession. Osama bin Laden had porn in his compound. I have nothing against most porn. The only types of porn that should be banned are child porn, necrophilia related porn and bestiality related porn. That stuff is just fucking sick. Most of the rest of it falls into one of two categories, stuff I really like and stuff I don't really get but consider harmless. Despite our delusions of grandeur, we're just animals and like the other animals we have sexual urges. However, being intellectually sophisticated animals, our sexual urges get linked to a wide variety of fetishes and the like. We try to distance ourselves from the other animals but we're not much better than they are and in many ways we're far, far worse. Religionists are especially guilty of delusions of grandeur. They think that they're better than everyone else because they follow such and such religion, but the reality is most are simply hypocrites. Look hard enough and you'll find they're not so squeaky clean.