Its bad enough that we have politicans making a fuss about pornography all over the US right now, but it turns out that one of their main talking points is untrue.

When Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) introduced the Internet Safety & Child Protection Act in July, aiming to slap a 25% excise tax on online purchases of porn, she cited a startling statistic: Children in the U.S. now typically get their first exposure to porn at age 11.

Just one problem: The assertion is untrue, unsupported and likely of dubious origin, none of which has stopped porn’s opponents from using it.

At least we have bigger issues on the table right now for our politicians to worry about – without the war, the deficit, and the Supreme Court, they might actually focus their idiocy on the porn industry.