Gallup: Americans Hold Record Liberal Views on Most Moral Issues

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Good news. Even pornography approval increasing, which would be not that great in a vacuum, is a sign of the weakening of many unfortunate social norms when combined with the rest of the data.

Adultery is adultery is adultery. I would hope most Americans would agree, but I don't believe I have the luxury of being surprised if I'm wrong.

Considering the social-libertarian leanings that this poll suggests, I have a feeling that you would get different results if you asked about consenting adults in a relationship having sex with other people if they have the explicit permission of their partner. I don't know if the approval rate would be very high, but it would probably be higher than 9%.

You probably would, yeah. Honestly, I kind of wonder how much that would differ based on whether or not the question was worded to include the phrase "consenting adults", which has started to strike me as something akin to the "it's my First Amendment right!" of sexual morality in terms of "what I'm doing isn't a serious felony, therefore nobody can criticize me"-ism.

Of course, "It's my first amendment right" is usually a defense for things that actually hurt people/a poor attempt at avoiding criticism, whereas "consenting adults" is a defense against arguments that typically boil down to "it's icky" in less childish sounding language.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Medical testing on animals is still too high but moving in the right direction.
The 9% that thinks adultery is okay must be the same 9% that approvrd the job congress is doing or basically just say yes to everything.

I also find is distutbing more people say abortion is okay than porn. Not that porn is really moral buy seriously how can someone say abortion is okay and porn is not? Odd. This is not about legality but moral acceptance. People are strange.

If one finds pornography problematic because of the way it typically objectifies and dehumanizes women and the way it seems to screw with human sexuality by its very nature(though there hasn't been much objective research on the subject. "I want to study the effects of "sexy Cowgirls XXX" on the human brain" isn't exactly a grant-money magnet) instead of it violating ones idea of the natural order of things, then finding abortion acceptable at the same time isn't peculiar, especially if one considers the fact that fetuses don't develop mentally into something resembling a human until somewhere around 22(IIRC) weeks in as part of one's view on abortion.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

I don't know why you always seem so incensed when I don't agree with you.

His problems with your post included the idea that someone who couldn't get a divorce because of an abusive relationship would be committing "adultery". Considering the kind of mentality that often stems from flippant ultimatums like the one you made, I wouldn't necessarily blame him for assuming what he did. Even without that, how can you possibly be shocked that your comment isn't going to sit well with some people?!