Porn in the USA: red states are the biggest consumers

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html

by CoryOndrejka • 17 years ago

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barredo• 17 years ago

Anyone surprised?

helveticaman• 17 years ago

Yes, but...I should have seen it.

lionhearted• 17 years ago

"One natural hypothesis is something like repression: if you're told you can't have this, then you want it more," Edelman says.

--> Alternative theory: There's less adult bookstores, tougher licensing/zoning/legal codes, and less other real life outlets where people can come in a baseball hat, pay cash, and leave, so they choose online more.

mrdod• 17 years ago

Take a drive down the expressway in West Virginia or South Carolina and you will see big billboards with busty women on them for roadside strip clubs and videostores.

There are strip clubs all over most southern cities.

anamax• 17 years ago

Another alternative theory: they're less willing to violate copyright to get their porn.

Yet another alternative theory: they have more sex in general and porn buying is proportional. (Those communities have lots of sex, more than blue states.)

Variation: they have standards standards that aren't met by "free" porn.

Donald• 17 years ago

Headline is extremely misleading.

From the study: ( http://people.hbs.edu/bedelman/papers/redlightstates.pdf )

"Furthermore, I found no significant relationship between subscriptions to this adult entertainment service and presidential voting in 2004, based on poll data by congressional district."

If porn-consumption co-varied with "Conservativeness," the correlation found at the state level would carry down to red/blue American Congressional districts.

Porn in the USA: red states are the biggest consumers

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