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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 06:47 PM
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Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers
...The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users...

Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.

Old-fashioned values: Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays – a 1% increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds...

Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage....

States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement "I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage," bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be God's punishment for immoral sexual behaviour."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 06:49 PM
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1. They're just screening it to let the rest of us know...
how evil it is.

It's a public service
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 06:58 PM
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2. Newsflash: republicans are lying sacks of shit.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:00 PM
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3. What, this is a surprise?
Great photo, BTW.
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:10 PM
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4. I made some remarks
Around page 4 of the comments that basically conservatives could take heart that liberals could be just as big online porn viewers as conservatives by the following situation: Since 8 of the 10 biggest online porn viewers are red states, we can also assume that they're also pretty low in the rankings of education attainment as most red states fit that bill as well. So it's possible that the people in the red states are just stupid enough to actually PAY to view online porn, and liberals are smart enough to realize that you can find plenty of it for free.

My humor was not appreciated.

TlalocW
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:12 PM
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5. No way in hell.
Conservatives may be the most numerous consumers of porn, and they may spend the most on it. But they aren't the biggest.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:16 PM
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6. Remember the Repub that confessed he had sex with animals on the farm
Edited on Sat Feb-28-09 07:16 PM by upi402
and tried to say, "I mean, who hasn't?".

Repubs are the biggest freaks, no question.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:19 PM
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7. "When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:22 PM
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8. "Nervous farm animals for Horsley"
Now I remember, thanks Bluebear. This place is a compounding of wisdom and vast collection knowledge,

...even about perverted Republican animal lovers.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 01:34 AM
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11. :)
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:23 PM
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9. Avoid the Ecological Fallacy...
..so since porn purchases are higher in conservative areas ergo conservatives must be the subscribers. HOWEVER it could be the case that non-conservatives in the area are the true source of the extra porn spending since these highly conservative areas might make it difficult or impossible for anyone to gain access to sexual materials locally. Instead they seek out the home-accessible service in greater numbers than they would in a less sexually repressed area where the could visit local strip clubs or something like that. We can't really draw any conclusions about individual activity from aggregate statistics.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 07:25 PM
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10. OK doctor :)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 04:25 AM
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12. STOP IT PT
:rofl:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 05:10 AM
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14. ---
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 05:12 AM
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15. YOU'RE KILLING ME!
:rofl:
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-01-09 04:31 AM
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13. Gee I'm sooooooooooo surprised
NOT! Bible thumping self-righteous hypocrites. :puke:
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