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Thanks to my brother, Brad, for the following YouTube clip:

Of course, the guy is putting them on. But I love how deadpan and matter-of-fact this guy is about getting “porno” on the Internet.

If you’ve had an Internet-connected computer for more than 5 minutes, you’ve seen Internet porn, even if you are the prudish type who has no interest in it; you don’t have to look for it, because it’s looking for you.

Most people, however, are interested in sex, if at least in the technical sense. (Before Wikipedia came along, how in the world would you know what a Cleveland steamer is? And where, but the Internet, could the kind of people who are into that find it, without having to travel to Germany?)

Of course, there is much worse Internet pr0n out there, especially pedophilia. I’m no criminologist so I can’t speak to whether the Internet makes it easier or harder to be a pedophile.

I know that I’ve never seen porn on the Internet that made me into something I wouldn’t have been into in the first place; I know I don’t get more sex as a result of looking at Internet porn; therefore, I’d have to assume the Internet doesn’t create pedophiles, the same way gay people don’t recruit straight people to be gay.

Oh, there may be the occasional case where latent desires become patent ones after someone sees something on the Web. But the Web doesn’t make perverts; you were a pervert before you ever got on the Internet. It’s just that the Internet exposed to you (and maybe your parents, or maybe your kids, or maybe law enforcement) what a pervert you are.

My point is that looking at porn is normal, but we treat it like masturbation: In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we deny doing it; we either laugh at, or are repulsed by, the guy who openly celebrates it.

In this case, it’s pretty funny because clearly the guy is poking fun at the discomfort of the subject, and he’s cheerful about it. Of course, QVC might have been clued in when “Randy” called in at 2 a.m. …