December 4th, 2013
A missive from Galley Friend X:
For reasons I won’t share, I was poking around Andrew Sullivan’s site this week and stumbled across the following: apparently, there’s a “porn gap.” In “high-income cities” the top five search terms on porn-video websites are “1. Gay 2. Ebony 3. Teen 4. Lesbian and 5. MILF while in low-income cities they are 1. Teen 2. Lesbian 3. MILF 4. Ebony 5. Gay.”
The first thing to cross my mind, obviously, was What would Charles Murray have to say about this?
But then, that question turns out to be easier to answer than you might think.
A weekend Wall Street Journal essay–“Charles Murray on the porn class divide”–practically writes itself. He would look back on the good old days, when both the upper and lower classes had to watch the same pornography, so that no matter how much money your family had, at least you’d have some shared social experience. And there’d be a quiz, so that the rich could realize how little they understand about blue-collar porn.
But the best part is that Murray could even recycle his last title: Coming Apart.
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“Balling Alone.”
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“The Underclass Revisited: Tops and Bottoms”
“In Our Hands”—no retitling needed.
This shit writes itself.
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(blurb on future book jacket) “Mr. Murray’s newest sociological study is a very important piece of work; it’s like the de Tocqueville or possibly Johnny Thunders of our generation. I’m not into gay or bisexual experiences, but that’s hypocritical of me, because I’d rather see two women together than just about anything else. That happens to be my personal, favorite thing.”
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No, no. Sorry guys, Herr Last was right, that X thing was awesome.
By the by, Jon, I resent in your name that I have to go find other ways to, um, get the Last word in. Can’t you use your last name? I mean, assuming it isn’t your Last name.
Sorry. Sorry. So sorry. I just wrote it and didn’t have the balls to erase it.
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I’ve gotta do this, please forgive me:
“From parts unknown…weight unknown…GALLEY FRIEND X!!”
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jon December 6, 2013 at 5:12 pm
“The Bell Perv.”