interesting factoid: utah is the number one porn consuming state
and there seems to be a positive correlation between porn consumption and voting republican. wacky...
...and it's my first post!
here's the article. i wanted to post the link but i don't have 30 posts yet:
Who is buying all that porn?
Category: Humor
Posted on: February 27, 2009 1:37 PM, by PZ Myers
An analysis of the consumption of internet pornography found that there are only small differences between states, but that there are some patterns. The patterns will not surprise anyone.
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.
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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.
So Republican states gobbled up more nekkid pitchers than Democratic states? but of course, one could argue that it was just the few Democrats in Utah who were slavering most obsessively over porn, while the Republican Mormons were being upright (no, wait, maybe that's the wrong word?) Montana is a conservative state, too, but maybe the ready availability of all those cows helps slake their forbidden lusts.*
What about those good Christians?
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."
Heh. Now we all know what "values" is a code word for.
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