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SimplyImp
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8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
By EWEN CALLAWAY
Feb. 28, 2009
Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.
A new study shows that the states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption.
A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states.
"When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School.
However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
Political Divide
Edelman spends part of his time helping companies such as Microsoft and AOL detect advertising fraud. Another consulting client runs dozens of adult websites, though he says he is not at liberty to identify the firm.
That company did, however, provide Edelman with roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date and each customer's postal code.
After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states – online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog – and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest.
The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.
Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32.
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.
Old-Fashioned Values
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.
Homemade Porn a Threat to Adult Film Biz
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't 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 than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be God's punishment for immoral sexual behaviour."
"One natural hypothesis is something like repression: if you're told you can't have this, then you want it more," Edelman says.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/story?id=6977202&page=1
Okay libs - a gift for you! 
I can't believe that someone would be paid money for some of these studies! lol
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| Feb 28 @ 10:14 PM |
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pomegranate
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Well, it's no surprise, really...those who *can't*...watch?
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| Feb 28 @ 10:15 PM |
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kjac
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Further proof that anyone who blindly labels themselves as a conservative or liberal is the very definition of sheep.
That being said, I really wish Jess hadn't filmed that.
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| Feb 28 @ 10:18 PM |
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SimplyImp
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More like conservatives like to "handle" themselves rather than let someone else "do" them over. 
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| Feb 28 @ 10:20 PM |
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pomegranate
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Yeah! Let 'em f>>k themselves and raise their own little b>>>>>ds!
 
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| Feb 28 @ 10:23 PM |
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SimplyImp
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At least they'd be raising them on their own dime, and not looking for a "hand" from the government!
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| Feb 28 @ 10:26 PM |
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pomegranate
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 Well, that's what you get for planting this damn song that's going to be going 'round and 'round in my head all night now, thanks to you.
Porn in the USA...I was Porn in the USA... 
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| Feb 28 @ 10:28 PM |
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SimplyImp
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 That's good pom!
I'll "hand" that one to you. And that song was "self-inflicted" 
[Edited on 2/28/2009 10:31 PM]
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| Feb 28 @ 10:30 PM |
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Loreli
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if you're told you can't have this, then you want it more That part sounds like kids!
I know, imp......
I'm sure there are groups out there that get paid to document how often rhinos fart....
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| Feb 28 @ 10:33 PM |
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SimplyImp
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yep, I knew a guy that was paid to study the sex life of the tsetse fly! Like, that's important, how?
Maybe they were libs!
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| Feb 28 @ 10:35 PM |
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Loreli
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not nice
I'm mid-road, but party bashing really ticks me off....
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| Feb 28 @ 10:37 PM |
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pomegranate
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Tsetse fly. Noun. Any of several right-...er...two-winged bloodsucking flies of the genus Glossina, often carrying and transmitting pathogenic trypanosomes to humans and livestock.
Nope, sounds like a con, to me!
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| Feb 28 @ 10:38 PM |
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pomegranate
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And speaking of ticks...
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| Feb 28 @ 10:38 PM |
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Angel54214
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No this wasn't nice!
Yeah! Let 'em f>>k themselves and raise their own little b>>>>>ds!
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| Feb 28 @ 10:39 PM |
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SimplyImp
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Loreli - it's all in fun in this thread. I mean, I'm right of center.. and I posted the article. I just found it hilarious. 
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| Feb 28 @ 10:40 PM |
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pomegranate
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It wasn't meant to be "nice." It was play on words! Fun! And yet oddly poignant at the same time!
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| Feb 28 @ 10:54 PM |
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onoudn
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Uhhh what no pics ? 
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| Feb 28 @ 11:04 PM |
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blueyes101
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But, you have to remember, the ones in the porn are mostly liberal.
So, if you divide it by lib and con............. then one is still supporting the other........
Now, if you bring the war into it, those that want the US and their influence and liberal lifestyles to be irradiated, are being supported by those in the US that want the war to just go away. ( we are all infidels, and unless we are willing to kill for what they believe are not worthy to live ).
And those that want a clear end......... dare I say a WIN !!!!!!!! Are actually fighting for those from the said countries that are being persecuted.
It is a well known fact that woman and homosexuals have been the most persecuted in these said countries. So has freedom of religion or lack there of.
The freedoms that this country has given us are seldom recognized as a worth while cause to fight for.
Freedom has never, and will never be free. Or handed over without a fight..
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| Feb 28 @ 11:06 PM |
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SimplyImp
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Here you go Ono.. quoting your term of "spanking the monkey"
(Kind of looks like Bush!)
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Oops... sorry Ono.. that was Popo that said that.
Popo: Since the term is used by some "Spanking The Monkey" I'm wondering is that racist too?
[Edited on 2/28/2009 11:14 PM]
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| Feb 28 @ 11:07 PM |
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onoudn
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I wonder how many times conservatives say "liberals their fault  " a day.
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