How a middle-aged economist became an unlikely porn star on XVideos

As anyone who has ever sat through a three-hour lecture on the principle of comparative advantage knows, there is nothing even remotely boner-inducing about economic theory.

One XVideos user feels differently about Timothy Taylor, the managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives at Macalaster College.

After an anonymous porn fan posted a video of one of Taylor’s economics lectures on the hardcore porn-tube site (NSFW link), Taylor, a middle-aged father of three and author of such titles as In Defense of Outsourcing and Shortfalls in the Long Run: Predictions About the Social Security Trust Fund, is now one of the most unlikely porn stars on the Internet.

And the Internet (not to mention Taylor himself) doesn’t know quite what to make of it.

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