There’s a new poll out on Ireland’s moral attitudes, which includes the interesting information that 61% of Irish people think that pornography is morally unacceptable, including 74% of women. The Sunday Times, who comissioned the poll, also ran an accompanying article which takes a tone best described as sneering moralism. Ireland’s discomfort with porn is put down to sexual repression or leftover Catholic guilt. This is a very common diagnosis for the country’s ills. CS Lewis’ words about each age being skilled at spotting the vices that... Read more