On a day when everyone is honoring the uniqueness of their fathers, I realize my dad is just like any other dad with one exception—he’s a pornographer.

The biggest female stars in pornography have blazed a path since the 1970s, all thanks to the doors opened by the legendary adult movie Deep Throat.

It was more than 15 years ago but I still remember feeling the heat of the asphalt under my sandals as I walked across the parking lot to my father’s Florida porn shop, The Premier.

Are religious conservatives with their views on porn and sex in a minority or are their views shared by many Americans?

Rick Santorum’s crusade to save America from the pandemic of pornography may seem like an out-of-the-blue call to action against smut—the kind of campaign rhetoric that supplies comedians and late-night talk-show hosts with good material—but for the last 40 years my family has lived this culture war.