Exposed! The Vatican's tastes in porn!

If Walt remembers his catechism correctly, making known the hidden faults of your neighbour is a violation of the Eighth Commandment. However, if your neighbours' faults -- for example, their penchant for downloading porn from the Internet -- have already been revealed... would that, then, be a sin, Father? (That's the way we used to bug the priests who gave us religious instruction.)

If your neighbours happen to be the folks in Vatican City, it doesn't seem so wrong, somehow, that their sins and hypocrisy be exposed to the light of day. At least, that must be the reason why the downloaders' favourite website, TorrentFreak, published download stats from a certain IP address a few days ago.

From an anti-piracy site called ScanEye, TorrentFreak got details (shown in screen grabs in its article) of the viewing habits of someone in the Vatican. Could be a member of the Swiss Guard... or a gay priest... or a gay bishop... or a cardinal... or... who knows?

Whoever it may be, his (or their) top pornographic searches range from lesbian and "mature" porn to "amateur" and anal scenes. Not to mention a website called Wet and Puffy ("Become a member now for FULL length videos!). [Thought you weren't going to mention it! Ed.] 

The top-searched porn star is Milly D'Abbraccio, a former Miss Teenager Italy and 2008 Socialist Party candidate, whose curriculum vitae includes the non-Oscar-winning film Sex Animals. They're also fond of Rebeca Linares, a Spanish porn actress and co-star (with Ron Jeremy) of Homo Erectus, which Walt would have taken for a documentary of an anthropological nature.

This enquiry into the porn habits of the denizens of the Holy See comes after the revelation that someone there recently downloaded a film starring Tiffany Starr, who promises "some of the hottest transsexual porn" on the Internet. Does this mean that the lovely "lady" pictured above is actually a member of the LGBT community? In that case viewing such a film might come under the heading of research into motivation for abnormal behaviour, presumably in furtherance of better pastoral care.

Further reading... or viewing, actually: "Lea Lexis, Tiffany Starr Call Vatican Porn Downloaders 'Hypocrites'", from HuffPost. (Yes, there's a video, but Walt couldn't get the embed code.)

And let that be a warning to all of you one-handed typists! That ad that says your computer is broadcasting information about you? It's true!