“Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers”

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A new study by Benjamin Edelman, of the Harvard Business School, claims that consumption of on-line pornographic material is generally evenly distributed across all of America, although some states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious.

Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers – New Scientist

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.

I would guess this study will be controversial.

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