Inside the Golden Age of Porn 89%

By Suzy Weiss78%

7/17/2026, 9:01:38 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Recency Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 61.4% saturation with 43 hits. Analysis detected 184 faulty-reasoning hits from 70 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.4% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,186 of 18,666 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.30% of the article peer group.

Is porn empowering? 
Is it a scourge? 
And either way: Was it better in the ’80s? 
In this episode, Suzy Weiss and Dan Ahdoot sit down with writer Allie Rowbottom to dig into her new novel, Lovers XXX, set in the cocaine-fueled “golden age” of Los Angeles’s adult film industry. 
They discuss the evolution of pornography from VHS tapes to OnlyFans and why fem… 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
12.9%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
61.4%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
5.7%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
20%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
12.9%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
20%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
12.9%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
20%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
48.6%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
48.6%

70 words analyzed.

Analysis

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