Inside the Golden Age of Porn ⁠79%

By Suzy Weiss⁠69%

7/17/2026, 2:01:38 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 61.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠79% (6,696 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 78.10% 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… 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 3.0%The FP: 4.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.5%The FP: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 5.5%The FP: 4.1%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 2.0%The FP: 1.6%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 12.9%Suzy Weiss: 0.7%The FP: 1.1%Hindsight Bias12.9%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.6%The FP: 1.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 61.4%Suzy Weiss: 5.7%The FP: 8.5%Framing Effect61.4%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.5%The FP: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.5%The FP: 1.5%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 5.7%Suzy Weiss: 8.9%The FP: 9.3%Negativity Bias5.7%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.6%The FP: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.7%The FP: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.2%The FP: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.9%The FP: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.9%The FP: 1.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.8%The FP: 1.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.5%The FP: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 20.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.3%The FP: 1.8%Recency Bias20.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.0%The FP: 0.9%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.1%The FP: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.3%The FP: 2.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.9%The FP: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.6%The FP: 3.0%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 12.9%Suzy Weiss: 2.5%The FP: 2.3%False Dilemma12.9%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.4%The FP: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.1%The FP: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 20.0%Suzy Weiss: 7.2%The FP: 7.8%Hasty Generalization20.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.7%The FP: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 3.5%The FP: 5.0%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.6%The FP: 1.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.3%The FP: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.2%The FP: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.4%The FP: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.1%The FP: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 3.6%The FP: 3.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.2%The FP: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.9%The FP: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 12.9%Suzy Weiss: 0.2%The FP: 0.1%Middle Ground12.9%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.2%The FP: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.2%The FP: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 20.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.6%The FP: 2.2%Unattributed Quote20.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.1%The FP: 1.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 48.6%Suzy Weiss: 11.8%The FP: 13.6%Biased Writer Voice48.6%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 2.1%The FP: 2.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.7%The FP: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.1%The FP: 2.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 48.6%Suzy Weiss: 4.4%The FP: 3.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…48.6%

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