interesting factoid: utah is the number one porn consuming state
 

and there seems to be a positive correlation between porn consumption and voting republican. wacky...

...and it's my first post!

here's the article. i wanted to post the link but i don't have 30 posts yet:

Who is buying all that porn?
Category: Humor
Posted on: February 27, 2009 1:37 PM, by PZ Myers

An analysis of the consumption of internet pornography found that there are only small differences between states, but that there are some patterns. The patterns will not surprise anyone.

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.

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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.

So Republican states gobbled up more nekkid pitchers than Democratic states? but of course, one could argue that it was just the few Democrats in Utah who were slavering most obsessively over porn, while the Republican Mormons were being upright (no, wait, maybe that's the wrong word?) Montana is a conservative state, too, but maybe the ready availability of all those cows helps slake their forbidden lusts.*

What about those good Christians?

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."

Heh. Now we all know what "values" is a code word for.

how do they check that

No need to let facts get in the way of a good story.

They figured it out because one of the larger networks gave up aggregate user data (zip codes, etc.) for researchers to study.

They gave all of the details when this story first surfaced a year or two ago.

a paid network?

What a crock of shit. Everyone knows that conservative republicans live by a strict moral standard worthy of unquestioning admiration, and they would never look at pornographic materials because porn is bad. I suggest you repent for posting that.

It's been a long time since I've read the original story, but a large porn program gave researchers very basic information (that could not be tied to individual users) about tens of thousands of past and current members so that they could figure out the trend in porn buying.

This paragraph may be a false memory, but I think one of the purposes of the research was to point out this obvious fact ... I seem to want to remember the company anxious to provide this basic data to prove what they had known all along ... the areas that claim to hate porn the most consume more of it in the privacy of their own homes than others.

very interesting lol

if its paid it makes sense, the dirty libral asswipe hipsters know how to steal, pirate etc many are piss poor jerkoffs

republicans are more of the type to pay with their money or your money but they pay

So true, haven't seen many UT signups if ever. Whatever makes the mormons look like bigger freaks is fine by me :thumbsup Magic underwear rock.