Word from the Porn Belt: Do as I say, Not As I Do

[EraOfResponsibility]

From firedoglake:

From the File of Things That Really Shouldn't Surprise Anyone Who's Been Paying Attention to American Culture, we have this:

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.

It turns out that Utah is the nation's leading consumer of broadband pornography. Which is deliciously ironic news considering that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a godbotherer of the Mormon persuasion, just spent a few weeks stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee with his hissy kabuki over the nomination of David Ogden for Deputy Attorney General. Why? Because Ogden -- GASP! -- worked for pornographers! (That's what Orrin Hatch calls it when somebody does legal work on First Amendment issues and Playboy magazine is footing the bill.)

Hatch, who apparently doesn't care that his silly hypocrisy is hurting America by keeping Obama from filling the gaps left by the departed George W. Bush, never seemed to mind the fact that his former Senatorial colleague and fellow Republican Phil Gramm himself dabbled in the financial side of the soft-core porn industry.

[bertman]

1. Well, yeah. They do love their Dick and Bush.

[EraOfResponsibility]

5. ...

:rofl:

[bertman]

7. I'm glad you enjoyed that, EraOfResponsibility.

:evilgrin:

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Here, let me put on my surprised face.

[madrchsod]

3. i read the report earlier today...

really kind`a funny! those red states sure like their porn.....

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. and this should come as a surprised exactly how?

projection, ain't it wonderful

[provis99]

6. projection is the republicans reason d'etre

A republican without that hypocritical projectionism is a bad republican.

[depakid]

8. Utah!

I'd have expected Southern states- but Utah?

:rofl:

[GoesTo11]

9. not that surprising - look at the alternative

when progressives are up during the middle of the night, they're on du.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. They want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around.

But everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.

[Frank Cannon]

11. The Mormon-owned Marriott hotels make a substantial portion of profit

...off in-room porno. It's estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars a year, enough that they won't get rid of it no matter how many of their fellow Mormons complain.

And (no surprise) Mitt Romney sits on their board!

[AllentownJake]

12. I'm not surprised Fort Wayne, Indiana

I lived there for 3 years and it was uber GOP while I was there. The city had more churches than I've ever seen for a city of that size. It also had more strip clubs than any other city of that size I've been to.

The entire Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania with a million people had less strip clubs than Fort Wayne did and some locals would always point out to me how moral and upright they were compared to the East Coast. They also always bitched about their taxes and how us people on the East Coast were stealing their money to pay for our welfare programs. When I showed them the actual numbers they didn't really know what the fuck to say.