Trump sex accuser and adult film actress Stormy Daniels seems to be giving porn a good name, at least with Democrats.
A new Gallup morals survey, struggling to determine why porn popularity has grown to new highs, suggested that the sex star has given it a “moral credibility,” especially among critics of President Trump.
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How else to explain why for the first time ever a majority of Democrats are good with porn?
“The partisan gap on the morality of pornography widened slightly this year (to 26 points), largely because of the sizable change in Democratic attitudes. Why Democrats’ attitudes shifted is less clear. While Democrats have become increasingly socially liberal, the percentage of Democrats who describe themselves as socially liberal this year is essentially unchanged from the year before,” said the Gallup analysis.
“Another explanation is that Stormy Daniels, adult film star actress and fierce critic of President Donald Trump, has given pornography a sense of moral credibility that it previously lacked,” it added.
Overall since it has studied morals, Gallup found that the 43 percent now call pornograpy morally acceptable. Among Democrats support is at 53 percent. For independents it is 45 percent but it’s just 27 percent among Republicans.
The poll notes that younger and unmarried Americans are more willing to embrace porn as acceptable than older, married couples.
Gallup seemed a bit stumped with the surge of seven points in the endorsement of porn.
“The cause of the single-year shift on this item, though, is less clear. It may represent something of an outlier, in which case acceptance of pornography would be expected to decrease next year, even if it remains above the 2017 level. Or the shift, though principally driven by a structural trend, may been have been exacerbated by political factors, such as the public battle between Stormy Daniels and the president,” said Gallup.
