Pornography Ranks High in Religious Conservative Red States
A new nationwide study of credit card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider stated, "When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. (Study chart photo above)
The chart data trends seen above show that the red states tend to consume the most porn, and are known to be super conservative and religious. While the blue democratic states show lower levels of porn consumption.
"Some of the people who are most outraged (over porn) turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
Can we say hypocrites?
Edelman was given roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008, that included purchase dates and each customers postal code and as a result, he was able to create the data chart seen above.
Furthermore, he found that the biggest consumer of pornography is the Mormon state of Utah, which averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; the mid-west state of Montana had the least porn users with 1.92 per 1000 users. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.
The tenth state on the list of porn users is West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000 users; while number 41 on the list is the state of Michigan -- averaged at 2.32 per 1000 users.
The chart data trends seen above show that the red states tend to consume the most porn, and are known to be super conservative and religious. While the blue democratic states show lower levels of porn consumption.
"Some of the people who are most outraged (over porn) turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
Can we say hypocrites?
Edelman was given roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008, that included purchase dates and each customers postal code and as a result, he was able to create the data chart seen above.
Furthermore, he found that the biggest consumer of pornography is the Mormon state of Utah, which averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; the mid-west state of Montana had the least porn users with 1.92 per 1000 users. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.
The tenth state on the list of porn users is West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000 users; while number 41 on the list is the state of Michigan -- averaged at 2.32 per 1000 users.
Eight of the top ten porn consuming states, gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last years presidential election with Florida and Hawaii being the exceptions. And six out of the lowest ten states favored, Barack Obama.
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriage actually boasted 11 percent more porn subscribers, then states that do not explicitly restrict gay marriage. To get a better handle on other associations between social attitudes and pornography consumption, Edelman melded his data with a previous study on public attitudes toward religion.
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, then states where a majority disagreed.
2009 LA
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, then states where a majority disagreed.
2009 LA
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