Now, these folks are my kinds of dickheads! A group of uppity students at the University of Texas San Antonio have begun a program called "smut for smut" which aims to trade religious material for pornography! Pretty cool, no? Apparently, if you bring your bible or your Koran or what have you to their table, they'll take it from you and and replace it with an issue of Hustler or Club or something. At least that's what I hope. I haven't found any information regarding the specific porn they give you, but I'm fairly sure it's print porn. I'd be pretty damn pissed if they gave me an issue of Penthouse or Perfect 10 or something. Not that these aren't quality magazines or anything, it's just that to the experienced pornographer or porno enthusiast, these things are pretty tame.

The point is, they're referring to religious texts as smut! That's pretty fuckin' risque, no? They say that religious texts promote violence and advocate for the mistreatment of women, and are therefore no better than porn.

Hey, wait. That sounds like a thinly veiled knock at us! Oh well. We've had worse.

Anyway, as you may have guessed, the Christians aren't too pleased about this whole thing. “They admitted it’s a publicity stunt,” said Michelle Brossart, a UTSA student who is offended by the event. “They want to evoke crazy emotions out of people because they want to make their agenda known. But only very, very few people are actually gaining anything from this,” she said.

Hm. You know, it just strikes me as funny. Could anyone in their right mind believe that this isn't a publicity stunt? I mean, most people don't really think of porno as an altogether spiritual medium. Does porn satisfy a basic human need? Sure, why not? Is it a necessity in daily life? Maybe (some people think so), maybe not. But is it a path to enlightenment? Of course not. That would take all the fun out of it. Sex is a path to enlightenment, but that's a different story altogether. Of course it's a fucking publicity stunt, moron. Anybody with half a fucking brain (which, I'll say it, rules out most religious zealots) can see that the point is to highlight problems in the church, not to highlight godliness in porn. Shit, if they wanted to highlight existence of a higher power in pornography, they'd spend the whole time focusing on my fucking editing!

Anyway, moving on from my silly diatribe, the group responsible (known as the Atheist Agenda) had this to say: "If religious groups can put out missionaries and go knock on my door and wake me up at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning, I can put a table outside of the college."

Makes sense to me. I know I'm a lifelong atheist and church-hater who happens to make a living selling and writing about porn (and occasionally making it), but I gotta side with the atheists on this one. I find most religious texts to be at least as sexist, violent and offensive as any porn I've come across (often moreso), but at least you've got to be of legal age before diving into porn. Maybe if religion wasn't crammed down everyone's throat at birth, I'd feel different but that's not the case, is it?

Ah fuck it. Read the story here, if you'd like.

Just one more thought on this religion vs. porn debate. When somebody from our camp rapes a child, they probably go to jail and get sodomized and beaten (though I can't say for sure because I don't know of any cases where this has happened. I'm not saying it hasn't happened, I just don't know about any cases). Wouldn't it be funny if they just got moved to a new studio instead?

I guess we need a porn pope. And maybe the church should be disbanded. Why not?

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