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Anti-porn video yields awesome ’80s crowd reaction shots

Mark Frauenfelder at 10:43 am Fri, Jul 27, 2012

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[Video Link] Dr. James Dobson has clearly done his research! (Via Christian Nightmares)

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robdobbs

I thought that was George Carlin in the audience.
http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

“Live Sex Acts”
- Sam Ley
  
  That is the best one right there. It could be autotuned into a thing even we could glory over.
  - Quiche de Resistance
    
    Carl Sagan at 1:27 is pretty good.
    
    If you want to create a porno, you must first create the universe.
    - corydodt
      
      No love for Olivia Newton-John at :33? Or “ouch” lady at :48?
      - Culturedropout
        
        Yeah – I was kind of surprised to see Olivia there. Especially after “Let’s Get Physical”…
- Culturedropout
  
  Caption: “Well shit… I haven’t been involved in a live sex act since 1973!”
chgoliz

“You come to the point where you’ve seen everything that can be shown.”

*fit of giggles*
- Culturedropout
  
  Obviously he isn’t aware of Moore’s Law of Porn. Or Rule 34.
  - Quiche de Resistance
    
    I’ll just leave this here…
jandrese

I love the title of this video too. The premise seemed to be that only the mafia makes porn (and uses strongarm tactics to keep other producers out?), so if you arrested the 14 guys in the Mafia who make porn, then that would cut the flow off entirely?

The other thing I love is the huge huge glasses almost the entire audience is wearing. Apparently Dobson really struck a chord with the myopic crowd.
- corydodt
  
  Well, yeah. Remember what happens when you masturbate, other than hairy palms?
- nixiebunny
  
  Huge glasses were the fashion of the time, just as tiny glasses are the fashion of today.
  - LaylaSV
    
    Well, tiny glasses, contacts and lasik.
http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

Those two dudes on the still, dropping their heads when the speaker says “even the most committed people, will often find themselves bit” LOL. Poor bastards.

Or the cat in the glasses that snaps back to reality at the mention of family, pulled from the imagery of men doing things to men. LOL. Poor bastard.
RKTR ♫soundcloud.com/rktr

Its like Tim & Eric, but in real life PSA format.
- Mazoola
  
  Plus, this is funny… .
http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

“Pornography: A Winnable War.”

Then, like a wave of jizz, came the internet, sweeping the opposition aside like so much uptight flotsam. There would be no victory, there wold not even be a real war anymore. It was over. The porn had won the day.

And I turned to her and said, “Oh well babe, guess we’ll have to be real parents after all.”
- wysinwyg
  
  Actually, the internet seriously disrupted the porn industry by putting amateurs on a similar footing with porn industry porn. Which didn’t actually reduce the amount of porn, just the “quality.”
  - malindrome
    
    It turns out that quantity has a quality all its own.
    - PaulDavisTheFirst
      
      as michael hoenig once said “perfection is a matter of quantity, not quality” (sleeve notes from “departures from the northern wasteland”)
  - heligo
    
    you can get porn on the internet now? whatever next…
Boundegar

I’d like to see these reactions intercut with video of Governor Romney.
Stonewalker

People looked *weird* in the 80s. This is so wonderful.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  Uptight squares look weird in every decade. :/
- IronEdithKidd
  
  Uptight squares look weird in every decade. :/
- nixiebunny
  
  They all had such nice hair, though. The eighties had the best big hair.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    I love that Tom Bailey is one of the illustration for Big Hair on Wikipedia.
- GregS
  
  In 2040 people will be watching videos of hipsters from 2012 and will be thinking exactly the same thing.
  - http://twitter.com/Ronamo Jaron R. Hendrix
    
    People watch videos of hipsters a few minutes after they’re recorded, thanks to YouTube, and think the same thing. No need to wait another 28 years.
http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

Check out the great JULIO IGLESIAS at 01.29. Thinking to himself “Who even needs porn? MUHAHAHA.”
Sagodjur

I think Dobson’s influence has been quantitatively worse than the porn industry on our culture. Most porn is by adults and for adults and the involvement of children is illegal. Dobson’s religio-cultural indoctrination has been widespread amongst children and adults and has been used to attack freedom, diversity, and to unduly influence the political process by getting people to vote for corrupt politicians who say they’ll outlaw abortion at the same time they’re giving corporations whatever they want.
jahxman

Woman at 1:25 looks both aghast and oddly intrigued….
- malindrome
  
  Isn’t that the point of seminars like this? You get a little titillation, but in a “safe” context, so you can feel good and self-righteous about it.
Brett Lempereur

Nice to see Smiling Jim Trepomena crawled out of that hole in the earth.
smallteam

in b4 Jim Cunningham (Donnie Darko) reference
fufter

It sounds like a Freudian slip when he sums up the depravities that can be encountered “upstairs” just after 1:10: “… there are men doing that to men, and you can see women and men together. Anything that you want.”

Well, if that really is what you want, stop repressing your feelings!
Crispinus211

Then there’s the “inflow of soft to hardcore” guy at 1:34 trying to sound not *too* much like an expert: “Uh, whatever you call it…” Smooth.
- http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski
  
  I mean, I’ve never watched THE porn. I just heard about it. At church. Yes, that’s it.
  - archzero
    
    I sense that if it wasn’t for his wife seeing the statement from the cable company that his bill would have rivaled NASA’s budget … getting a guy like this to quit fapping on the internet today is simple: just tell him that all porn sites cost extra because they are long distance
    - Cowicide
      
      just tell him that all porn sites cost extra because they are long distance
      
      Uh..heh..heh… he said “long”…
Cowicide

Old John Malkovich disapproves… (at 00:58)
- Laurent Dubois
  
  Nice catch! I knew this guy is a time traveller and enjoys good old preaching about hardcore porn :)
RedShirt77

I love how the “Anti-porn” war is won by large numbers of adults gathering together to listen to an old man tell a story of all the live sex acts you can see while putting coins in a machine.
- johnnylloydrollins
  
  totally… he sounded like an expert on the subject. LIVE sex acts! LIVE!
Culturedropout

They left out “Dogs and cats, living together!”
Comedian

Time traveling Barney Stinson at 0:21 would make a great cutaway gag for HIMYM.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=541562500 Diamond John Barber

“…women and men together, anything that you want.” - down with that sort of thing!
heligo

there’s religion for you in a nut shell. the masses listening intently to an individual for an opinion. don’t you dare think for yourself. *sigh* humans…
luisella

Best watched side by side with a gangbang cum swallow video.
kiptw

Please, somebody with the know-how, switch the “oh, horrors” reactions to his porn descriptions with the “that’s absolutely right, preacher” reactions to his later bromides. The Dark Lord commands you! Probably.
GregS

I’m willing to bet that the most important thing that many of the men in that audience took away from Dobson’s talk was that “there’s porn on cable TV”.
Laurent Dubois

This is my instant favorite of the month… the starting titles reminded me of a good old 80′s movie and I was expecting to see Michael J Fox changing clothes in an elevator or something (for those who were not born yet at the time, check the “Secret of my Success”… it is all pure 80′s :0)). The speaker obviously has experience about visiting peep shows… and how the hell does he know what is going on on the second floor…

… most people in the audience seems to enjoy their brainwashing and think about the porn movie they will watch later that night :)