[thih9]

This seems sensationalist, by its own admission too:

> Most of the gooners I spoke with had no interest in completely surrendering their lives to porn, and many looked askance at the truly devoted, ruin-your-mind pornosexual contingent.

[CaptainOfCoit]

Why? It's an article that explores a part of culture, and humans, and I don't see any outrageous claims or anything else? Just an author trying to understand something and writing about it. What is the sensationalist parts exactly?

[SapporoChris]

"a homegrown zoomer Tea Party that might one day produce its own gooner congressmen"

"... the formation of an international pornography cult."

"The very air, suddenly, was misted with pornography."

There is more, but that seems sensationalist enough to me.

[CaptainOfCoit]

It's just flowery language, pretty common across the board in articles about culture, for better or worse.

My understanding of "sensationalist" is that something is grossly exaggerated in shocking way, not just trying to be "poetic", although I'd argue that what the author did in this article comes off as more "cringe" rather than "poetic".

[SapporoChris]

Fair enough

[throwitaway9999]

We already have one sitting congressperson who copped to giving a handjob during a performance of Beetlejuice. And God knows how many of the rest are in the Epstein Files so it seems to me that a gooner congressperson would be a step up.