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Red state residents are Pr0n fiends?
Originally posted by USAToday
Red state or blue, Americans everywhere enjoy online pornography. But those of you living in states that tend to be more conservative and religious are paying to watch slightly more porn than your more liberal counterparts elsewhere, a new study has found.
"When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," Benjamin Edelman of Harvard Business School tells NewScientist. And yet, he found some trends in his data, which came from two years of credit-card purchases from adult Web sites.
The mountain West provided Nos. 1 and 50. At the top of the paid-porn pyramid: Utah. The bottom: Montana.
In the November election, Sen. John McCain carried the porn vote, as NewScientist explains:
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.
Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays — a 1% increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds.
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage.
"When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," Benjamin Edelman of Harvard Business School tells NewScientist. And yet, he found some trends in his data, which came from two years of credit-card purchases from adult Web sites.
The mountain West provided Nos. 1 and 50. At the top of the paid-porn pyramid: Utah. The bottom: Montana.
In the November election, Sen. John McCain carried the porn vote, as NewScientist explains:
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.
Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays — a 1% increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds.
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage.
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