Turns out the Reddy Redneck states are the biggest porn consumers

[Bill]

Another one for the "DUH" department - all those conservatives states that are always first in line to claim they are anti-sex and anti-adult industry are the biggest buyers and users of porn.

One sweet note - the churchgoers hold off on stroking the cock on sundays - but buy more during the rest of the week to make up for it.

So says this article in New Scientist.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ef=online-news

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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.
Political divide

Edelman spends part of his time helping companies such as Microsoft and AOL detect advertising fraud. Another consulting client runs dozens of adult websites, though he says he is not at liberty to identify the firm.

That company did, however, provide Edelman with roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date and each customer's postal code.

After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states – online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog – and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest.

The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.

Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32.

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.
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[LD]

That's funny...seems like people talking about the "sanctity of marriage" tend to have a higher divorce rate than everyone else.

[Agent]

You beat me to it. I just came here to post:

Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Bus...6977202&page=1

It doesn't surprise me. I read in a book ("Pornography") that the Southern states are the largest consumers of Interracial porn (according to one distributor.)

[tickler]

Another article with some more details.
The study(pdf) is here

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

adult escort sites are more popular in "blue" states that voted for Gore in 2004, while visitors from the "red" states that voted for Bush in 2004 are more likely to visit wife-swapping sites, adult webcams, and sites about voyeurism. Gotta adjust my ad filters
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2...use_more_p.php

[Ms Naughty]

As Jesus said: "Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the giant throbbing sticky penis in your own hand?"

[Itchy]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

As Jesus said: "Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the giant throbbing sticky penis in your own hand?"

[saucygirl]

Originally Posted by Bill

Another one for the "DUH" department - all those conservatives states that are always first in line to claim they are anti-sex and anti-adult industry are the biggest buyers and users of porn.

One sweet note - the churchgoers hold off on stroking the cock on sundays - but buy more during the rest of the week to make up for it.

So says this article in New Scientist.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ef=online-news

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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.
Political divide

Edelman spends part of his time helping companies such as Microsoft and AOL detect advertising fraud. Another consulting client runs dozens of adult websites, though he says he is not at liberty to identify the firm.

That company did, however, provide Edelman with roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date and each customer's postal code.

After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states – online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog – and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest.

The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.

Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32.

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.
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That's funny, I heard somewhere that conservatives tend to be FREAKIER also because they seem to have to pretend they have "family values" when in reality they're big time pervs.

[SirMoby]

Red staters have little tech skills so they've never figured out how to navigate tube sites and have to pay for it instead.

[InfoGuy]

Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds (USA Today)

The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The faithful have scattered out of their traditional bases: The Bible Belt is less Baptist. The Rust Belt is less Catholic. And everywhere, more people are exploring spiritual frontiers — or falling off the faith map completely.


These dramatic shifts in just 18 years are detailed in the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), to be released today. It finds that, despite growth and immigration that has added nearly 50 million adults to the U.S. population, almost all religious denominations have lost ground since the first ARIS survey in 1990.

It looks like the religious right is fighting a losing battle against porn.