This is curious indeed.
A Harvard researcher has analyzed the human geography of paying for porn online and discovered - drumroll please - that the heaviest consumers of porn live in states that have most recently enacted conservative legislation on sexuality. You know, states where conservatives want less government interference in our lives.
The leading consumers of retail porn on their computers? That would be folks from the state closest to having a state religion, Utah. Which answers the question: "what are the consequences of sexual repression on a species that natural selection ensured to be obsessed with the mechanics of procreation?"
Utah's porn usage is double that of Godless liberal states like California and New York.
Interestingly, the conservative Red states also have higher divorce rates that liberal states.
What hath God wrought?
Utah: Online Porn Capital of America?
For most of my life I have lived in the cauldrons of sin - first New York, then California. These Bluer than Blue states are the source of most of our society's ills, or so we are constantly told.
When it comes to online smut, though, it appears I've been living in the wrong places. Thanks to Harvard researcher Ben Edelman, we now know the most avid consumers of Internet pornography live in the heartland -- the "real America," I believe someone once called it.
One key finding: The biggest consumers of online adult entertainment live in the great state of Utah. An average of 5.47 people per 1000 broadband subscribers pay for porn in Orrin Hatch's home state. (Utah also leads in porn consumption among the general population and dial-up users, in case you're wondering.)
It must have been all those Osmonds Gone Wild videos that sent them over the edge.
Read more: Online Porn Capital of America by Dan Tynan
Read more: Red States Lead Nation in Divorce by Dino Grandoni
