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Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers
ABC News ^ | Feb. 28, 2009 | EWEN CALLAWAY

Posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:20 PM PST by Conservativism

A new study shows that states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption.

"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.

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 provided 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.

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To: Conservativism

ABC aka Disney making up stories about porn. Like their semi-kiddie porn with Hannah Montana and their “kid” shows? Their ownership of Hollywood Pictures and other involvement in questinable cinema?

Disney is not Walt’s Disney. After Walt died it turned to crap.


21 posted on 03/01/2009 9:57:02 PM PST by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: Conservativism
He is measuring credit card receipts...not consumption.

Please don't ask (or even wonder) how I might know this...but I, uhm, undestand one can get porn on the net withoug paying for it.

22 posted on 03/01/2009 9:57:05 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Conservativism
The red blooded conservative capitalists pay for their porn.

The real perverts and pedophiles use file sharing to download their porn.

23 posted on 03/01/2009 9:58:14 PM PST by smokingfrog ( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
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To: coloradan
Odd that they're bandying their biased little stats about, as if pornography were (gasp!) bad or something. Aren't these guys all for it? What's with the judgmental stuff, lol?

As far as your contention of more real life opportunity in liberal bastions, I'd think STD stats would bear that out.

24 posted on 03/01/2009 9:59:34 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
I’d imagine demand is satisfied through a wider variety of other venues in states that are not conservative.

Cities are leftist strongholds. Porn is readily available everywhere in cities.

In the country... not so much. So they get their porn from their computer.

It's not real complicated. Which is why this "study" isn't real news.

25 posted on 03/01/2009 9:59:55 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: smokingfrog

Haha, I like this explanation best. You may be on to something.


26 posted on 03/01/2009 10:00:08 PM PST by Conservativism
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To: Cindy

Thanks Cindy


27 posted on 03/01/2009 10:00:35 PM PST by Conservativism
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To: Conservativism

It could be because those living in cities like San Francisco have easy access to all types of lewd entertainment and don’t need the internet.


28 posted on 03/01/2009 10:01:26 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: ari-freedom
Jugs.

29 posted on 03/01/2009 10:01:51 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Pair of Hooters


30 posted on 03/01/2009 10:05:01 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: ari-freedom
That was just wrong.

;-)

31 posted on 03/01/2009 10:05:35 PM PST by SIDENET (I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman, too.)
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To: exist

Really? That’s sad.


32 posted on 03/01/2009 10:06:08 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

And this is why the stimulus bill will bring broadband to rural areas, equal opportunity porn!


33 posted on 03/01/2009 10:07:15 PM PST by bigbob (-)
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To: Conservativism; admin
For some reason this poster left out the first sentence:

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

34 posted on 03/01/2009 10:11:14 PM PST by NoLibZone (To save our nation a strongly worded e-mail is in order!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Agreed. This thread would be best suited for a DU mesage board. Interestingly enough:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:conservativism/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change


35 posted on 03/01/2009 10:11:30 PM PST by Mengerian
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

The troll even edited the story removing the very first sentence!


36 posted on 03/01/2009 10:12:21 PM PST by NoLibZone (To save our nation a strongly worded e-mail is in order!)
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To: ari-freedom

37 posted on 03/01/2009 10:12:55 PM PST by SIDENET (I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman, too.)
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To: ari-freedom
Kinda looks like my Chuncheon wings.
38 posted on 03/01/2009 10:13:24 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon drama at a time!)
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To: NoLibZone

You’re right. I had to pare it down to 300 words and thought that was encompassed in this: “”When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different,” says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School.” I also thought the mention about very little variation at the end got that point across without misconstruing the meaning of the article.


39 posted on 03/01/2009 10:14:15 PM PST by Conservativism
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To: bigbob

“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.

-Obviously, this researcher is not smart enough to do the research he claims to. Otherwise, he wouldn’t make this circular assumption. The porn they are counting, is that per capita or total volume? I would have to believe it is per capita as I find it hard to believe that Alabama consumes more porn than New York or California. That being said, per capita consumption according to Edelman must be distributed evenly across the populace of the state. He actually does this twice. He assumes that everyone is watching at least a little bit of porn and everyone is attending at least a little bit of church. Both assumptions are erroneous.

My hypothesis would be different. My guess here is that in states that Edelman characterizes as ‘religious’ have had a stronger voice in public concern over adult book stores, adult relaxation centers and other ‘blue businesses’. Because of this, there are less outlets in less locations. Therefore, those who may be ‘non-religious’ feel trapped in a ‘religious’ or more accurately ‘restricted access’ state. This forces the end users of such businesses to resort to accessing pornography and accessing it more often than similarly predisposed people in states with less ‘restricted access’ to the materials or blue businesses. This forces them to access product in a fashion that can be counted by Edelman, and to access it much more frequently.

The assumption that people who attend church are secret hypocrits accessing porn when they get home from church is a huge leap from the data available. While it is almost certain that at least some church goers access porn, the preachy leap to mocking disbelief only serves to uncover a biased agenda in the research thereby reducing the reliability of the research and the researcher.


40 posted on 03/01/2009 10:21:47 PM PST by johnnycap
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