Why does sex sell to the exclusion of policy issues?

Like Marsha Blackburn illustrated when she could not define carried interest. And she is writing tax policy.

Our society has a prurient interest in sex. It is not fit for polite conversation, but watch out when it rears its head. The dams of propriety break and suddenly we are caught up in the deluge of sex stories.

If our society wasn't so "Puritan" and closed off about sexual practices and nudity, much of what we think of as porn would probably go poof!

It's not about the apple. It's about the prohibition. Make something "forbidden fruit" and its value goes up on curiosity alone.