For a more mature and thoughtful take on this topic than my silly drive-by, please see this diary by cardinal.
And now back to our regular programming...
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Sorry, that wasn't an invitation. It was more of a rhetorical question, and I already have the answer.
Yes, the reddest state in the Union is also our largest consumer of online pornography. Via the American Economic Association, we hear from Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, who took some trouble to research who exactly are the largest consumers of online pornography. His results are interesting. While online porn use varies relatively little from state to state, there were some very definite trendlines to be found:
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.
Get out.
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.
Knock me over with a feather.
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.
Well, it is a day of rest, after all.
However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds.
Duh. If it's Tuesday, this must be bukakke.
And who was numero dos on this list? You've probably already guessed:
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NO WAY.
Edelman's shocking conclusion?
"One natural hypothesis is something like repression: if you're told you can't have this, then you want it more," Edelman says.
Or you could be a towering hypocrite.