Reply #7: Thank you.

[Shakespeare]

Somebody made a point I'd like to reiterate (it looks as if her post was lost in one of the deleted subthreads--and I don't even remember who it was, so apologies for not being able to credit her specifically):

Without more detail on the study, I think this is at best good discussion fodder about moral hypocrisy on the right, something they seem to give us a never-ending supply of (and stupidity, which I'll address in a moment, just to keep things light).

Without knowing what kind of porn the subjects of the study were buying, it's rather difficult to know what to make of the red staters' high volume of consumption. There's a huge range of porn online--this we all know--from quality erotica to fetishism to truly horrendous stuff (not to mention just flat-out poorly produced porn). If, for example, we knew that consumption of rape fantasy porn was significantly higher in red states, we could certainly draw some ominous conclusions from that. Trouble is, we just don't know. What we do know is that for all their intoning about God and morality and what-will-we-tell-the-children, they're just as interested in porn as those in blue states. Thus, the moral hypocrisy noted above.

(And RE my comment about stupidity--I'd also add that it shows conservative porn consumers are really dumb if they're still paying for porn online; there are all manner of free outlets out there.)