conservatives can haz porno

in his new study, "Red Light States: Who buys online adult entertainment", benjamin edelman analyzed the credit card receipts from ten of the most popular online porn sites and found that states consuming the most online porn between 2006 and 2008 were also the most conservative
and religious.

surprise, surprise: "some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by."1

guess who wins the prize for most online porn consumed?

utah.

according to the study, utah averaged 5.46 adult content per 1000 home broad band users.

montana wins as the least porny state, at 1.92 per 1000.

edelman points that the difference between red and blue states in terms of porn consumption is not actually as vast as might be expected.


the top eight states with the highest porn consumption gave their electoral vote to john mccain last year while 6 of the lowest 10 voted for barack obama.

not entirely hypocritical, people who self identified as religious and church-going bought less porn on sundays, a 1% jump in religious attendance resulted in 0.1% decrease in porn subscriptions.

27 states that have laws banning gay marriage bought 11% more porn subscriptions that states that haven't banned gay marriage which is interesting considering the lds church(which is based in utah) was a primary donor to prop8 in the states, and many have sited mormon support for the ban as a huge factor in its success.

in states where a majority of people agreed with the statement "i have old fashioned values about family and marriage" bought 3.6 more subscriptions/1000 than states where the majority of residents disagreed with the statement. an increase in subscriptions was also found in states where a majority of people agree with the statement "AIDS might be god's punishment for immoral sexual behaviour."


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."



this isn't really that surprising, even if we just consider the number of sex scandals (Top 5 Republican Gay Sex Scandals, Republican Committee Chairman arrested for Child Porn, College Republican Head Busted on Sex Offender Charges, Republican Prosecutor arrested for Soliciting sex from a 5 year old girl-among others) that have come out of the right (they practically teach the signals for gay sex in a public bathroom at CPAC). it also doesn't surprise us that conservatives are stupid enough to use their credit cards to buy online porn.

what does surprise us, and often, is how much conservatives lie to themselves about their ideals and values. don't they realize that if even they can't abide by their own values that there might be something wrong with trying to force the rest of society to?


the weirdest conservative award goes to this kid, who we all know is going to be tapping his foot under a public bathroom stall in no time at all: