Being Irish it always cracks me up when I hear a leftist moaning about Bush and saying they're going to move to a liberal country like, let's say, Ireland.
I point out that divorce is almost impossible to get in Ireland, and was only legalized about 10 years ago. Abortion in NOT legal in Ireland and good luck finding Playboy over there. Believe me.
Believe it or not the "Modern Conservative" Nations of the world (Meaning we allow women to wear what they want, and dont kill them without penalty etc...) The most Conservative of the Modern nations are said to be the US, Ireland Italy and Poland.
Scary thought.
Just on your scarcity of Playboy in Ireland point: Playboy was legalized in Ireland in the mid-90s and was freely available for around five years (I'm a fairly young male, so I know these things!). The reason it is now scarce is nothing to do with pornography (after all, Playboy is incredibly tame in comparison to what is freely available in other publications and on the net) - its about cigarette advertising. As far as I remember, there is a cap on the numbers of a magazine which can be sold in Ireland once those ads are present (its in the very low thousands I think).