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According to this artice I read in the post, DC residents watch more porn than any other state in the USA! Maryland is 9th. I gues Virginia isn't even in the top ten.
Not surprised. DC has a notorious reputation of being the Marriage Infidelity Capital of America. There is a reason why the prostitution business has thrived here as well. We are not talking about bony, toothless street walkers willing to accept $20 so she could score some heroin from the corner dealer. In DC, most prostitutes charge hundreds of dollars per hour and they meet in neutral locations by appointment only. They live healthy lifestyles; you would have no idea that they were involved in the sex business by appearance.
By nature of being the seat of national power, Washington, DC has an abundance of middle-aged married men who have powerful careers with generous incomes and a need for sexual pleasure with 18-29 year old females. The ol' wifey in her 30s and 40s gets stale with her appearance and sexuality after a while. Some men have thick enough wallets to seek out prostitutes (escorts). Others might start an office fling with the 22 year old Bambi fresh out of college: he gets the sexual gratification of a young female body while she gets to sleep her way up the career ladder or earns that killer reference for law school. Works out good for everyone, no? Well, except for the wife and the kids.
If POWER and MONEY defines a city, sexual deviancy and infidelity tend to follow. Washington, DC shares this distinction with other major US cities such as New York City, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In Washington DC, you have too many scumbag lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, company executives and federal agency appointees who think power gives them the right to cheat on their spouses and/or behave in sexually aggressive manner with younger, female subordinates. In return, too many 20-something women in this town have this fetish about pleasing powerful middle-aged men as a gateway for a successful career or perhaps satisfying mentally disturbing "Daddy" issues.
And why are so many people viewing porn in Washington, DC? Perhaps, instead of getting off on watching porn, maybe the straight & gay dudes should meet new people and get a life. Or maybe the spouses/partners in Washington, DC are so BLAH in the bedroom or kinda Fugly that dudes have to jerk off to remain human. Who knows.
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Originally Posted by yamota
According to this artice I read in the post, DC residents watch more porn than any other state in the USA! Maryland is 9th. I gues Virginia isn't even in the top ten.
People in cities probably watch more porn than people in rural areas. That's why lists like these are pretty useless in making any kind of relative judgment about DC compared to other places. It lumps DC, which is only a city, with entire states.
Whenever DC is ranked against the other states in lists like these it is almost always first or last depending on the measurement in question. That says a lot more about cities than it does about DC.
To do a really apples-to-apples comparison you would need to look at how DC compares to other major cities in porn-watching habits. I suspect DC wouldn't be much higher than most places if you looked at it that way.
People in cities probably watch more porn than people in rural areas. That's why lists like these are pretty useless in making any kind of relative judgment about DC compared to other places. It lumps DC, which is only a city, with entire states.
Whenever DC is ranked against the other states in lists like these it is almost always first or last depending on the measurement in question. That says a lot more about cities than it does about DC.
To do a really apples-to-apples comparison you would need to look at how DC compares to other major cities in porn-watching habits. I suspect DC wouldn't be much higher than most places if you looked at it that way.
Bingo.
An NYC to DC comparison makes a lot more sense than an NY state to DC comparison.
Without the city vs. city stats, there's zero point in analyzing this survey.
Not surprised. DC has a notorious reputation of being the Marriage Infidelity Capital of America. There is a reason why the prostitution business has thrived here as well. We are not talking about bony, toothless street walkers willing to accept $20 so she could score some heroin from the corner dealer. In DC, most prostitutes charge hundreds of dollars per hour and they meet in neutral locations by appointment only. They live healthy lifestyles; you would have no idea that they were involved in the sex business by appearance.
By nature of being the seat of national power, Washington, DC has an abundance of middle-aged married men who have powerful careers with generous incomes and a need for sexual pleasure with 18-29 year old females. The ol' wifey in her 30s and 40s gets stale with her appearance and sexuality after a while. Some men have thick enough wallets to seek out prostitutes (escorts). Others might start an office fling with the 22 year old Bambi fresh out of college: he gets the sexual gratification of a young female body while she gets to sleep her way up the career ladder or earns that killer reference for law school. Works out good for everyone, no? Well, except for the wife and the kids.
If POWER and MONEY defines a city, sexual deviancy and infidelity tend to follow. Washington, DC shares this distinction with other major US cities such as New York City, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In Washington DC, you have too many scumbag lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, company executives and federal agency appointees who think power gives them the right to cheat on their spouses and/or behave in sexually aggressive manner with younger, female subordinates. In return, too many 20-something women in this town have this fetish about pleasing powerful middle-aged men as a gateway for a successful career or perhaps satisfying mentally disturbing "Daddy" issues.
And why are so many people viewing porn in Washington, DC? Perhaps, instead of getting off on watching porn, maybe the straight & gay dudes should meet new people and get a life. Or maybe the spouses/partners in Washington, DC are so BLAH in the bedroom or kinda Fugly that dudes have to jerk off to remain human. Who knows.
After all this time, did you really not realize the irrelevance of state-to-DC comparisons before jumping to all sorts of conclusions about power / wealth / control? I worry that you begin with an assumption and then try to fit it to every remotely possible situation.
When compared to states, DC has a low marriage rate and a young population. Guessing that equates to porn watching as much as anything. I don't think I know any dude who has NEVER checked out a porno at some time in his life. I can barely look at my Facebook feed without seeing some risque photo someone has posted. And I know a fair amount of dudes who take things to the "next level" with strippers and prostitutes and will come in the office Monday morning and give the blow-by-blow of the encounters around the water cooler.
Bluefly and State of Nature, please explain how state-to-DC comparisons are invalid.
Most of the prominent national survey research and polling firms include the District of Columbia in state-by-state surveys of population data and trends. Since DC is not officially a "state", it is a territory that happens to be incorporated as a city in the contiguous United States. Washington, DC has a large enough population (600,000+) to be considered for various state-by-state national survey projects. The population of DC is larger than the state of Wyoming, for example.
So what if the District of Columbia has a small amount of geographical territory and a high density population. The United Nations includes small city-nations like Singapore in research reports with much larger populated and geographical nations around the world. In fact, Singapore has been used in many educational and crime research findings as a comparison against the United States. Is this a fair comparison? I think it's valid but you might disagree.
Also, if DC becomes a state some day, how would this SAME research finding be any different? Oh, let's throw out Delaware, Wyoming, North Dakota and DC because the total population sample is too small compared to say California or New York state. Survey firms concentrate on percentages of the population here as opposed to the aggregate numbers. Some behaviors and trends in more rural, less-densely populated states might differ dramatically from a dense, urban setting like DC. So what. If a larger, more rural state like West Virginia has a higher incidence of meth addiction compared to more urban, densely-populated locations like DC, does this mean the research has little value for academics or law enforcement? It's crucial to compare rural and urban population trends for a multitude of reasons.
All states are the same apple no matter how rural or urban; how sparse or dense the population; how conservative or liberal and so on. This includes DC.
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After all this time, did you really not realize the irrelevance of state-to-DC comparisons before jumping to all sorts of conclusions about power / wealth / control? I worry that you begin with an assumption and then try to fit it to every remotely possible situation.
well, it must be relevant if the Washington post is covering it
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