Demand for porn is highest in red states.

[Speck Tater]

"Americans are still very uncomfortable about sex. Even though it is everywhere it's also nowhere. America is sexually dysfunctional."

Barbato said American conservatives tended to speak more about "moral values" and against pornography in public, but demand and sales of porn was highest in conservative states.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20050214/od_nm/arts_film_berlin_pornography_dc

[independentchristian]

1. You know why?

Corn fields and fog farms aren't too "exciting."

Blue states have porn on just about every corner, and I'm not talking about a video store either, lol. :freak:

[Retired AF Dem]

11. Fog farms?

Must be hell to raise that, more slippery than a hog. :)

[independentchristian]

12. LOL

[ignatius 2]

14. I sadly live in a red state but have visited many blue states and I

haven't seen porn on every corner. Clue me in, what blue states are you talking about and specifically what corners?

[Halliburton]

2. Hypocritical nutcases

Say whacking off is blasphemy, yet they do it anyway!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. Geez, why didn't that surprise me?!?!? But, here's the difference...

I could care less about underpant's politics where as they want to shrink government small enough to fit through EVERYONE's bedroom keyhole.

[nytemare]

6. The problem is

The government grew so much under Bush's first term, not just including Homeland Security, that he will have to cut other stuff to compensate. I think I was reading in Al Franken's book about "the kiss of death", how Bush goes to meetings of different programs, touts their successes, then gives them the axe.

:shrug:

[Worst Username Ever]

4. Why is that not a surprise.

[judy]

5. I don't think this is surprising at all.

One doesn't need a degree in Psychology to know that people who speak of "moral values" (meaning of course about sex, not about killing innocent people by the thousand) are usually closet pornographers and repressed homosexuals.

Real sexual freedom and tolerance is not conducive to pornography, as pornography implies that the acts depicted are:
a) unavailable
b) dirty
c) secret

[nytemare]

8. I read somewhere that in Germany, where prostitution is legal

the rate of rape is 75% less per capita. They show what we would consider x rated programs after 10 pm.

The truth is, technology has changed so much in the last 100 years, but it takes much longer than that for humans to evovle. Our diet is one example, it has changed so much, and our activity level has declined, so obesity is up.

If sexuality is treated as something natural, and children are educated about it, and it is not looked upon as taboo, then society is better off.

[ultraist]

15. that's true

There is also a higher incidence of child sexual abuse in conservative religious families. There are stats & research on this.

Drug and alcohol addiction is the #1 contributing factor to child sexual abuse (and abuse in general) and conservative religiosity is the #2 contributing factor.

[paineinthearse]

7. I'd like to see the statistics for beastiality porn hits by zip code. nt

[DIKB]

9. ROFL

So would I !!!

[Anakin Skywalker]

10. No Surprise There Either.

It'd be once again, the Red States. Hah hah! :) Country "moruls"

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Divorce

Also, divorce rates are higher the redder the state. Interesting!

[Lexingtonian]

16. you know you've driven into Red country

by the porno shops and strip joints cropping up along the highways.

[ultraist]

17. Conservative/Authoritarian personality

excerpts
http://www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/OCJRC95/950725c.htm
This paper presents the basis for a model which deals with certain offenders through an educational effort to modify some of their negative characteristics which include violence. The model in this paper is based on the concept of a conservative/authoritarian personality as it is found in offenders. The concept of the authoritarian personality remains important today as evidenced by coverage in current introductory psychology textbooks (Crooks & Stein, 1991; Dworetzky, 1991; Gleitman, 1991). “It appears that conservatism has pathological dimensions manifested in violence and distorted psycho-sexual development” (Boshier, 1983, p. 159). This is supported by a study conducted by Walker, Rowe, and Quincey (1993) in which there was a direct correlation between authoritarianism and sexually aggressive behavior. An investigation done by Muehlenhard (1988) revealed that rape justification and aggression toward subordinate individuals was much higher in traditional (conservative personality) than non-traditional personalities. It is postulated in this paper that the offender has a conservative personality and, therefore, manifests that violence.

The conservative personality work has as its antecedents the efforts on authoritarianism as developed by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson, and Sanford (1950) in their book The Authoritarian Personality. Adorno, et al. developed what was called an F-Scale, or Fascist scale, which dealt with nine variables thought to be found in the authoritarian personality: anti-contraception, conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, power/toughness, projectivity, superstition/stereotyping, destruction/cynicism, and sex.

Dogmatic attitudes tend to be related to close-mindedness. The individuals who adhere to dogmatic attitudes have behaviors including: authoritarianism, tough-mindedness, conservatism, and alienated behavior (Rajnarain, 1986).

Personality characteristics:

*Religious dogmatism

•Right-wing political orientation (in Western society)

•Insistence on strict rules and punishments

•Ethnocentrism and intolerance of minority groups

•Preference for conventional art, clothing, and institutions

•Anti-hedonistic outlook (the tendency to regard pleasure, particularly sexual, as necessarily bad)

•Superstition and resistance to scientific progress (Boshier, 1983, p. 51)

The following is a series of statements or beliefs which can be attributed to the individual who manifests a conservative personality:

•Religion of a dogmatic and fundamental nature

•Commitment to political organizations which favor maintenance of the status quo (even by force)

•Strict regulation of individual behavior

•Militarism

•Preference for people of one’s own kind

•Resistance to change

•Conventional in art and clothing

•Refusal to accept new ideas

•Superstitious and fatalistic (Wilson, 1973)

[Inland]

18. Give them a break, they've all just divorced. nt