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Old-fashioned values

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. 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.

∫omehow, im not really surprised. repressed people lead to more people going out there to try to get something forbidden. If the leaders of these states didnt have such an unhealthy fixation about hating sex and trying to control what people do in the bedroom, and they allowed sex-topics out in the open, people wouldnt be spending time alone online looking at sex. A more healthy thing to do would be for two partners to enjoy pornography online with eachother as a sort of cyber foreplay. Instead we have horny hypocrites on our hands, by day they are righteous and speak the word of god, by night they are just another lonely surfer on the web.

∫uch is the world.