Now Here's The Real Story

Best of the Web draws an interesting link between a story they cited yesterday, where the director of Basic Instinct 2 blames the current American political climate on the failure of his film, with a Slate story from 1999 about which Americans have the best sex...

When University of Chicago researchers set out to discover which religious denominations have the best sex, they learned that the faithful don't do all their shouting in church. Conservative Protestant women, their 1994 survey found, report by far the most orgasms: Thirty-two percent say they achieve orgasm every time they make love. Mainline Protestants and Catholics lagged five points behind. Those with no religious affiliation were at 22 percent.

We're pretty sure that Basic Instinct 2 is bombing at the box office because (a) it sucks and (b) if someone needs to see porn, the Internet is cheaper and more accessible. But this other story from 1999 is a real story worth discussing -- who would have expected this? Based on this, shouldn't born-again Christians be selling this to all the atheists out there? Great sex and eternal salvation -- that's a pretty good sell.