Porn Is More Popular Than Tim Tebow

If you just came across this post because you did a Google search on "porn", you need to head down to Florida and fess up. If you did a Google search for "porn + Tim Tebow", you might be pictured at right giving Tim Tebow a high five. In a federal obscenity trial, the defense tried to argue that their clients website should not be considered obscene by showing porn searches are more popular than searches for Tim Tebow.

In a federal obscenity case heard this month, Mr. Douglas defended another Florida pornographer. In the trial, Mr. Douglas set up a computer in the courtroom and did Internet searches for sexually explicit terms to show the jury that there were millions of Web pages discussing such material. He then searched for other topics, like the University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, to demonstrate that there were not nearly as many related Web sites.

Outside the box thinking for sure, but it didn't work. His client was convicted on all counts. Mr. Douglas isn't giving up, though. In his current case, Douglas is employing Google Trends to show porn searches are at least as popular as apple pie.

"We tried to come up with comparison search terms that would embody typical American values," Mr. Walters said. "What is more American than apple pie?" But according to the search service, he said, "people are at least as interested in group sex and orgies as they are in apple pie." The Google service does, however, show the relative strength of many mainstream queries in Pensacola: "Nascar," "surfing" and "Nintendo" all beat "orgy."

So does that mean that Nascar, surfing, and Nintendo are more popular than Tim Tebow? Or is it just that people in coastal areas have enough sex that they don't need to go looking for it on the internet? I'm confused. Anyway, if you run a porn site I would suggest you steer clear of Douglas until he gets this defense strategy perfected.

hat tip: Blutarsky