Really?!? Maybe you’re just not paying attention.

Since I just made this comment, one minute before I saw yours, I think you are mistaken.

But just to be clear: I, like Joseph Smith, think that chastity is a special temptation for the Elders of this dispensation. It doesn’t surprise me that places where people who are generally conservative have more porn use, because places where people are more conservative also tend to have younger populations, which means more young males in their prime porn consuming years. It doesn’t mean we are any worse, but it also means that we aren’t any better. And the attempts to explain the study away by claiming that porn is not as accessible in the beehive state are even stupider than the study. How do we account for high porn use in TX, for instance, where porn is ubiquitous?

As the comment I linked indicates, Utah’s high anti-depressant use can be mostly explained by all the childbearing we do. I think that is a tremendously good thing, but some women do pay a heavy price in fouled-up body chemistry.

Just because the anti’s want to use surveys about porn or SSRIs as bait to defame LDS people doesn’t mean that we need to take their bait. There are usually reasonable explanations for all these things. But the reasonable explanations often get drowned out by the whooping of the culture warriors on both sides trying to claim a few more hollow victories.

P.S. who you calling kemosabe, kemosabe?

Who’s “we”, kemosabe? I’ve noticed the opposite tendency from you.

Yes, I realize that we are taking a light-hearted approach here, and I appreciate that. But in the past, when the subject was Prozac, Ponzi schemes, bankruptcy or porn, we have seen long, droney, boring posts in this ping pong club we call The Bloggernacle(TM), written by PhDs and professors, assuring us in suffocating detail that the research is bogus, the methodology sucks, the results are cooked, and so on. I just don’t think we are going to see that this time around. But as I said, I’m glad that this corner of the ping pong club still knows how to have a little fun. Cheers.

They expected everything to suck and were pleasantly surprised when it didn’t. It makes me proud to have a Danish heritage.

When you say “we” I assume you are talking about you and your ping pong club or something? Based on the post and the comments in this thread “we” certainly doesn’t seem to be the folks participating here.

In other words, what on earth are you talking about man?

“Utah is the most depressed state in the country because 30%-40% of the population has to live with so many Mormons.”

In that light, I submit:

“69% of Utahns are happy. Utah is 60%-70% Mormon. All Mormons are happy. Utah is the most depressed state in the country because 30%-40% of the population is surrounded by Pollyannas.”