Harvard Study Show Conservatives Are The Biggest Porn Consumers

I had to lol when I read that Conservative states (often bible belt states and/or highly religious) are the Porn Industries' biggest customers, even though they consider it to be immoral. It is interesting what technology can find out today.
The two links below is to new scientist and a PDF link to the study:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html

Study (PDF)
http://people.hbs.edu/bedelman/papers/redlightstates.pdf

Sample:

Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays â€“ 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.

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.
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