From the File of Things That Really Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone Who’s Been Paying Attention to American Culture, we have this:
A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states.
"When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School.
However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
It turns out that Utah is the nation’s leading consumer of broadband pornography. Which is deliciously ironic news considering that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a godbotherer of the Mormon persuasion, just spent a few weeks stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee with his hissy kabuki over the nomination of David Ogden for Deputy Attorney General. Why? Because Ogden — GASP! — worked for pornographers! (That’s what Orrin Hatch calls it when somebody does legal work on First Amendment issues and Playboy magazine is footing the bill.)
Hatch, who apparently doesn’t care that his silly hypocrisy is hurting America by keeping Obama from filling the gaps left by the departed George W. Bush, never seemed to mind the fact that his former Senatorial colleague and fellow Republican Phil Gramm himself dabbled in the financial side of the soft-core porn industry.
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Porn it up, Orrin!
Orrin Corn Porn Sucks Scissors!
I cannot help but think that this sounds very much like the legislators who yell and scream about the horrors of homosexuality, only to wind up coming out of the closet or an airport men’s room about a week later. We are too much a nation of phonies.
Too funny. Bet Orrin takes a peak once in awhile. Thanks, PW.
Orrin’s scorin’, late at night.
Someone should point out to Orrin that he represents a state full of porn buyers and purveyors.
Yeah, Madam Palm and her 5 daughters.
Glory, glory hole: all “ooooo, yeah!”
Glory, glory hole: all “ooooo, yeah!”
Glory, glory hole: all “ooooo, yeah!”
The saints come marching home.
Bring’em Hung!
-G
I’ve always maintained that the more sanctimonious a person is, the greater the likelihood of finding skeletons in the closet. So hey, Orinn: What’s behind curtain #1? Rick Santorum, maybe?
Higher divorce rate in red states too.
P.S. Hey PW: “Godbotherer”? “Hissy Kabuki”? Way too funny.
Digg is now open.
Many years ago a gay friend told me Orrin is gay, but my friend was not a reliable reporter on such matters and I’ve never found any confirming evidence since. But perhaps my friend anticipated the internet and planted such stories in the hopes that they’d go viral.
Particularly when one partner or the other says “sex only to procreate” and lives in that reichwing ether universe.
Hatch can be gay and consume pornography,for all I care. The issue is hypocricy.
Mormons are notorious for devouring sugar by the ton- didn’t know they had a similar appetite for porn- guess it’s the closest they can get to screwin without those fuckin suits on.
Yup.
not to forget rick santorum
http://www.commondreams.org/he…..208-12.htm
Sam Brownback: porn horn.
from God’s Senator — Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback
That’s precisely the point.
You mean there are other reasons to have sex? *g*
When they say “sex only to procreate”, they aren’t necessarily referring to underaged congressional pages. Just a technical point.
No doubt that some of the people who are most outraged by gays turn out to be closeted gays.
Indecent teebee’s the only thing he can think of in a hotel room alone? Oh yeah, I forgot, Rethugs have a thing about reading. Don’t have to worry about him pickin’ up a crotch novel I guess.
There is an easy explanation…liberals are smarter and more technologically savvy thus most of us get our porn off the internets for free. Stupid conservatards paying for porn.
Hey. I saw Footloose.
Well, there’s the fun aspect but I guess that’d be a sin.
Let’s Get Drunk…
Well, I mean how can you know what you should be outraged by if you don’t buy some of this stuff for, you know, research purposes.
Fed stim dust for a research grant?
I could have lived without that, I think.
Thank goodness for conservatives! They help keep some of my friends in business. Keep it up, Orrin (pun intended).
It’s a dirty job but I suppose someone has to do it. Since we are already DFHs here, we should bite the bullet and petition the government to send the money to us, that way we can spare conservatives any assault on their virtue.
Speaking of hypocrisy, I can only imagine what’s going on outside the convention hall at CPAC. Breakout sessions, indeed…
Utah as the leader in consumption of broadband pornography? Not California, Washington, DC, New York or Nevada. That’s impressive. Given Utah’s small population, their use must be aggressive, though possibly not creative. Then again, its collateral uses may be as creative as were those for the old Sears Catalog.
Presumably, the need becomes very great when you’ve got that whole magic underwear thing going on…
I wonder if that’s why not much headway has been made on curtailing internet porn?
Don’t get me wrong, if that’s how you get your jollies… And I have a friend who makes a VERY good living at it :-)
But seriously, these Christain moral monsters..well, it seems they would have done SOMETHING about it if they REALLY wanted to.Heheh
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We know damn well Orrin Hatch watches porn. Guaranteed!
You have unleashed a Pornucopia of hypocrisy.
I think that one of the major reasons that Republicans, social conservatives and over the top religious types hate liberals so much is that we live authentic lives and are generally accepting of people and their differences.
They, through the brain wiring that shows them to be more black & white thinkers or through their severe, shamed upbringings or their fear of life in general, have a hard time watching the rest of us have fun and fulfilling lives, so they seek to punish us. Yet at the same time there comes a time when their own needs and desires cannot be tamped down any longer. Because of the persona they have established they cannot be upfront and live their lives as they truly desire, but they cannot resist any longer. They try to live what they desire behind the scenes and underground but between the cognitive dissonance and the fear they feel they end up doing something to expose themselves hoping to ultimately either free themselves to live as they wish or bring down so much punishment on themselves that they will again tamp down their own needs.
It is a shame that we cannot all be who we are.
Isn’t orrin-hatching similar to tea-bagging?