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Tue. March 3, 2009 6:59:00 PM
8 of top 10 porn-consuming states voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
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Conservative "red" states have the highest levels of online pornography usage in the country, according to a study published last week.
Utah leads the country with 5.47 subscribers per 1,000 broadband users, followed by Alaska (5.03) and Mississippi (4.30). California ranked 39th at 2.46.
People of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriage boasted 11 percent more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage.
The nationwide study by Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School was published in the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Based on anonymous credit card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider, the study revealed that the States that did consume the most porn tended to be more conservative and religious than those with lower levels of consumption.
The study also found those who were churchgoers bought less online porn on Sundays in one state, but expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," said Edelman.
Edelman reportedly received the credit card data from one of his unidentified consulting clients that runs dozens of adult websites. The company gave him two years of data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date and each customer's zip code.
In the November election, Sen. John McCain carried the porn vote.
Read the study (pdf) for yourself.
astoppel on Thursday, 3/5/2009
all I can say is: 1) does this really surprise anyone and 2) go figure Utah tops the list... ;)
thankthesnake on Saturday, 3/7/2009
Markets: Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? By Benjamin Edelman. From the Journal of Economic Perspectives- Vol. 23. I just read it. Mr. Edelman clearly explains his methodology. While his study results will and apparently have upset some people, the study does speak for itself. I will not stoop to demean the study's author or anyone reading or commenting on the article by questioning their intellect, education or calling them an idiot. I do encourage anyone who has questions about the study's conclusions to go read it and make up your own mind.
sporty72 on Wednesday, 3/4/2009
like many news articles this one is misleading at best. the figures utilized here are skewed using a 'per capita' range to further a political agenda by the compiler. Any intelligent person knows that a largely rural state like Mississippi would not have a larger number of porn consumers than California...and while there may be a higher 'percentage of users per 1000 broadband users' any junior high stats student knows that the fewer individuals you can put into the study almost assures that your pool will come out closer to the number 1 spot...so to wrap up, saying that John McCain won the porn vote is a statement made by a complete idiot