{"id":3452,"date":"2009-03-01T09:49:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2009-03-01T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:49:27","slug":"the-problem-with-this-porn-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/03\/01\/the-problem-with-this-porn-study\/","title":{"rendered":"the problem with this porn study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html\">A problem with this &#8220;New Scientist article<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p><em>After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states \u00e2\u20ac\u201c online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. &#8220;The differences here are not so stark,&#8221; Edelman says.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You want to know why Utah is the biggest consumer of Online Porn?<br \/>\nBecause Utah is the biggest haven of Blue Laws that greatly reduce offline porn.\u00c2\u00a0 There was recently, in Utah, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paula_Houston\">Porn Czar<\/a>, whose job it was to watch all the pornography coming into the state and slash away what\u00c2\u00a0parts of the porn fall outside their standards of acceptable indecency.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, where else can Utahans go to get their fix of [fill in references to multiples and to penetrations and whatnot] but the Internet?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great muddle between #10 and #41 &#8212; blurring the supposed &#8220;Blue State \/ Red State&#8221; focus of this article, and at the bottom lies Montana, which I don&#8217;t have any good explanation for.\u00c2\u00a0 At any rate, the great cry out I see from the Liberal denziens <em>&#8220;Ha!\u00c2\u00a0 Those &#8216;godly&#8217; Conservative Hypocrites!&#8221;<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0, as well explanation from the first comments on this article <em>Might it not be the frustrated liberals in their midst who turn to porn to console themselves? <\/em>and from there&#8230; are off base and beside the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A problem with this &#8220;New Scientist article&#8220;: After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states \u00e2\u20ac\u201c online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest. The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}