Is porn immoral? That doesn’t matter: It’s a public health crisis.

[Warren DeMontague]

116. Funny story about porn and Utah. I actually was in SLC to see the Dead play in '95, of all places

--- talk about a culture clash --- but honestly that was the last time I saw them, with Jerry, and caught some real inspired and transcendent moments of pure brilliance, which frankly got fewer and further between after about 91 or so... I saw another show or two after that but they were flat and not memorable.

So im with a couple friends, wandering around downtown after the show, right, "nowhere to go, but just to hang around"... all the bars or whatever "drink clubs" are closed so we cant even go in and get some huge goblet of half-alcohol beer.

So we stopped into some coffee shop and we're sitting there, no doubt high as fuck (off LIFE! and that clean utah air) just yammering about something and I realize that there is, like, a writhing, moaning pink mass of flesh on the teevee in the corner of this near-empty place. So i sit for a minute and absorb the absurdity of being a stones throw from the big temple and here in this coffesshop with distracted hipster barista there is honest to god hard core pornography playing, up there on the screen.

After a few minutes dude realized what was happening "oh shit sorry sorry sorry!" And changed it to Alf or Seinfeld or full house or something.

But no porn in utah?

Hardly.