Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers

[moobu2]

Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.

A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states.

"When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School.

However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. 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.

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This is a bit from the study

Subscriptions are slightly more prevalent in states that have enacted conservative
legislation on sexuality (regression results on file with the author).
states where “defense of marriage” amendments have been adopted
same-sex marriage, and/or civil unions unconstitutional), subscriptions
adult entertainment service are weakly more prevalent than in other states
0.096). In such states, there were 0.2 more subscribers to this adult web
thousand broadband households, 11 percent more than in other states.
As shown in Table 4, subscriptions are also more prevalent in states
surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender roles, and sexuality.
states where more people agree that “Even today miracles are performed
power of God” and “I never doubt the existence of God,” there are more subscriptions
to this service. Subscriptions are also more prevalent in states where
people agree that “I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage”
AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.” Survey
come from the Pew Value Surveys (1987–2007 combined dataset).

[Thirtieschild]

1. Utah? Oklahoma? Idaho? Wyoming?

[dana_b]

3. "deep" south

:evilgrin:

[dana_b]

2. the second paragraph says it all

repressed sexuality. I hope they pray hard after they're "done". :evilgrin:

[Marrah_G]

4. That's because conservations like to watch ...... Liberals prefer to be "hands on"

:hide:

[rug]

5. I never met a conservative who wasn't a jerkoff.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

6. Me, neither, Rug. n/t