Porn in the USA: Red States consume most porn
 

I think this is a very interesting idea. I don't buy it, but I do find it amusing. It would almost have to see the drug statistics for these same states and see a similar trend to believe it. Otherwise I find it an interesting anecdote.

What do you think about this article?

There is always a problem in using aggregate level data that makes it hard to track if the correlation is valid. But in any case, this matches up well with teenage pregnancy rates and teen sexual activity rates.

seems logical to me. Repressed folks, more porn. Hmmmm, nothing too surprising about that.

This study tracks paid-for porn. Perhaps conservatives are less aware of the availability of free internet porn.

or methods of pirating -- ARRRRGGH

I'm usually not a fan of doing the "QFT" thing, but you totally took the words right out of my mouth, sooooo.....

QFT!!!

edit: a short anecdote to back that up;
Living in Tallahasee, Florida (a super redneck town), I had never seen so many porn shops. Yet strip clubs are pretty much illegal.
Down here in Clearwater (south Florida, so liberal), there's five strip clubs for every bus stop, but I honestly can't remember ever seeing a porn shop.

It can't be repressed if you're enjoying it in public, now can it? :-P

I find it deliciously ironic that Utah tops this list. This was rather a big deal in the local paper a couple of days ago. With the amount of repression that goes on here (meaning Utah), it really wouldn't surprise me if there was some truth to this.

I don't think you can draw a lot of conclusions from this data. It assumes that voter registration numbers are necessarily correlated with porn consumption. Seems a bit opportunistic.

I'm sure it's tempting to lord this over morally superior acting conservative people, but I can't really bring myself to care. Everyone watches porn. C'est la vi.

I suppose I was the only one bothered by them taking the credit card information I know that its only the purchase date and zip code but when you live in Montana how many neighbors with high speed do you have?

I don't find it to surprising what is interesting is the supposed sunday drop off in purchases

It would be interesting if they would do some studies on what areas have the most prostitutes, maybe the red are more look don't touch and the blue have to get their hands on it

The free pron is what I was thinking maybe the blue just have more socialized pron