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In 2009, Benjamin G. Edelman of the Harvard Business School published the results of a state-by-state study on the number of people who were subscribing to adult membership Web sites; Edelman found that eight of the 10 states that had the highest per capita consumption of online porn were states that Republican John McCain won in 2008’s presidential election. Utah topped the list, and other red states in Edelman’s top 10 included Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alaska, North Dakota and West Virginia. The only states in Edelman’s top 10 that Obama won in 2008 were Florida and Hawaii.
There was a thread on this previously. Anyway, it's very poor research/conclusions. By the way, I couldn't care less how much porn people watch.
Oh no! Not a duplicate thread!!! Good thing the threads on Obama's BC are limited to two million or so
You miss the OP's point. It's not the porn, it's the rank hypocracy of the denizens of Jesusland that makes this pertinent. They seem to have a hard time getting Satan behind them!
Probably are. But if you're assuming it's "unbelievers" buying the porn, and not the good lil Christian soldiers, one would expect a lot more unbelievers in liberal states, no? So that the % per capita would be higher?
I think it's pretty much common knowledge that the more you oppress and suppress, and make something taboo, the more exciting and titillating it becomes.
The article points out that those areas are places where strip clubs, porn sales etc. are less available, which is true. What that means is that people in those areas don't have access to porn from other outlets and if they want to view it, they are more likely to get it online. As a result, they may be overrepresented in online porn while still having a lower rate of porn consumption overall.
For example, where I live alcohol sales used to be banned on Sunday so everyone bought anything they would need for Sunday on Saturday. If you just looked at Saturday sales, you could draw a false conclusion on what went on in the area on Saturday.
In addition, being a "red state" doesn't mean that everyone in the area is conservative. How do you know the people that purchased it were conservative? Could they have been more liberal and frustrated by the lack of access to porn?
The way they did the study was to use credit card purchases from one vendor. Is that one vendor representative of all porn sales nationally? If you use credit card purchases, that also limits the study to people with credit cards, people willing to use credit cards online, and people willing to purchase porn versus simply staying with free sites.
As I said, I don't care how much porn people watch as long as it's adults, but the study is poorly done.
85% of Mississippi claims religion is an important part of their daily life. It's called the Bible Belt for a reason. It's the most religious state in the country.
You can be assured that the majority of porn viewers in places like Mississippi are Christians. Self proclaimed devout ones.
The article points out that those areas are places where strip clubs, porn sales etc. are less available, which is true. What that means is that people in those areas don't have access to porn from other outlets and if they want to view it, they are more likely to get it online. As a result, they may be overrepresented in online porn while still having a lower rate of porn consumption overall.
For example, where I live alcohol sales used to be banned on Sunday so everyone bought anything they would need for Sunday on Saturday. If you just looked at Saturday sales, you could draw a false conclusion on what went on in the area on Saturday.
In addition, being a "red state" doesn't mean that everyone in the area is conservative. How do you know the people that purchased it were conservative? Could they have been more liberal and frustrated by the lack of access to porn?
The way they did the study was to use credit card purchases from one vendor. Is that one vendor representative of all porn sales nationally? If you use credit card purchases, that also limits the study to people with credit cards, people willing to use credit cards online, and people willing to purchase porn versus simply staying with free sites.
As I said, I don't care how much porn people watch as long as it's adults, but the study is poorly done.
It's not that the study is poorly done, but you are just grasping at straws.
The way you say it appears as if the researchers picked and chose only the liberals in the red states, and then liberals again in all the blue states. Does that even make sense? This was a cross-section of the population, and in a red state, that is mostly Christians who profess to be religious, and in a blue state, that would mostly be liberals who consider themselves secular. The researchers had no way to know the porn consumer's political affinity. (They don't ask you if you are a conservative or a liberal when you sign up for porn.)
Anyone with 2 gray cells can put two and two together here, but I'll break it down for you. When you have a pharisaical environment where sex is taboo, you get sexually frustrated. Since you cannot drive over to a strip club near you and get a lap dance or sneak into your girlfriend's house and bang her, you buy Kleenex and go online for porn. There is also the "forbidden fruit" factor. Extrapolating this analogy internationally, this is the reason why people in Muslim countries go online for porn the most, and people in Scandinavian countries the least.
So to summarize, what we have is a typical example of GOP/Christian hypocrisy where they pretend to be holier-than-thou in public and try to whip everyone else into line, but they themselves don't follow it.
Now do you know why the country hates GOP's hypocrisy on social issues? There is NOT one social issue where the GOP sets a good example for the rest of the country to follow, but there is NOT one social issue where they don't sneak their noses into.
I think it's pretty much common knowledge that the more you oppress and suppress, and make something taboo, the more exciting and titillating it becomes.
Yup. Ever since God told Eve to leave that apple tree alone.
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