Turns out the conservative republican states are the biggest porn users

[Bill]

Another one for the "DUH" department - all those conservatives states that are always first in line to claim they are anti-sex and anti-adult industry are the biggest buyers and users of porn.

One sweet note - the churchgoers hold off on stroking the cock on sundays - but buy more during the rest of the week to make up for it.

So says this article in New Scientist.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ef=online-news

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Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.


"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.

Political divide
Edelman spends part of his time helping companies such as Microsoft and AOL detect advertising fraud. Another consulting client runs dozens of adult websites, though he says he is not at liberty to identify the firm.

That company did, however, provide Edelman with roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date and each customer's postal code.

After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states – online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog – and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest.

The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.

Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32.

Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.

Old-fashioned values
Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays – a 1% increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds.

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[basschick]

no surprise to me if it's true. over the years, most of the republican str8 men i know were going out on their wives, too, and they were certainly regulars at the strip clubs i managed.

[Bill]

I thought the implied set of numbers - that between 5.6 and 1.2 out of every 1000 broadband users buys an adult membership - was pretty interesting.

It would be nice to get more numbers like that - i'm not sure how useful, but interesting anyway. We see so many numbers thrown out about porn that are bvasically just guesses that to see even a suggestion of real measurements is satisfying.

And I know what you mean about republican guys and moralizing straights.

[LAJ]

Well as Bill Margold from protecting adult welfare has said many times... these hypocrites accuse with the right hand while masturbating with the left.

[maxx68]

Well as Bill Margold from protecting adult welfare has said many times... these hypocrites accuse with the right hand while masturbating with the left.

Whaaaa Hahhahhah! So true. i wonder how they can string up a noose with both hands so busy. I know their wives do it for them!

[GayGeek]

Here's a little story. Not sure it's 100% relevant, but you'll find it interesting.

Back in the late 90's when I was escorting, I had a "straight" married client who took me to a motel for a midday session. He was a lawyer and had left work to get together with me.

After the deed was done, we talked for a while and he told me that he was working for the US Military to defend the Don't Ask, Don't Tell anti-gay policy. He was a civilian lawyer whose firm had been hired by the military to assist on the case.

Needless to say I was appalled. I worked as escort but considered myself to be highly ethical. I didn't argue with him. Instead, next time he called to get together I told him I wasn't comfortable seeing someone who was being paid by the government to destroy that which I believed in. He was silent for a few moments then abruptly hung up.

I didn't expect him to thank me for my honesty, but I was surprised he wasn't polite enough to say goodbye.

In retrospect, I shouldn't have been surprised. He was married and seeing a gay escort while actively fighting equal rights for gay Americans. Did I honestly expect him to be polite about his hypocrisy? Right-wingers who use porn are using the exactly the same sort of mindset.

--Aaron

PS, His rudeness was a reminder of a lesson I learned many times over the years as an escort. Although many clients genuinely care about the escorts they see, others see us as little more than pieces of meat to be thoughtlessly discarded the moment we no longer serve the emotional and sexual whims. But that's another conversation.

[Rich]

does not really surprise me i always thought a lot of these people were 2 faced when it comes to there morals

[CamCruise]

Lets face it. We have seen this time and time again.

The ones that protest the most are the ones that do it on the sly.

its the classic I hate myself for the way I feel thing.

[DrChango]

What's that Shakespeare line? "Methinkst she doth protest too much" or something like that...