Comments on: Porn in the U.S.A.

By: Darrell b

Darrell b — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:49:37 +0000

What the study actually shows is Republican perverts are willing to pay for their porn while Democrat perverts feel entitled to free or stolen porn.

By: RBG

RBG — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:42:40 +0000

So why do you figure people are so fixated on porn compared to, say, playing Scrabble(tm)? Do you figure it has anything to do with a billion years of sexual evolution? In which case, can we excuse other similar behaviors, such as human affinity to violence, because it too has been induced by evolution? Just asking.

RBG

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:31:36 +0000

I don’t think its hypocrisy so much as a byproduct of oppression. I grew up in the south and saw this first hand. Everyone is told that sex is horrible, that porn rots your brain.. it makes you more curious. Sex and nudity are so taboo that the only outlet is porn. And since porn is so easy to find on the internet, it makes an easy outlet for people looking to escape.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:03:59 +0000

#43 QB

Nah, they don’t but they sure are good at tap dancing inside a restroom stall.

By: QB

QB — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:28:20 +0000

#40 and #41

Surely no one is suggesting that Conservatives are hairy palmed masturbators!

By: Sonny

Sonny — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:46:09 +0000

#41, Billy Bob,

Hey, is ya that Billy Bob Hatchins who lives down by the holler? The one that had that great big ole Hillary Sign up last year? Ain’t ya the one that got in trouble with the animal folks for what someone had done to yer goats?

Ya’s was making some of that fancy porn wasn’t ya? Jes you and your goat. I got one question fer ya. Did the goat blow his load all over your chin?

That is iffen yer that Billy Bob Hitchens. Cus, iffen yer ain’t, then never mind.

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:23:42 +0000

Massachusettes and Hawaii, which don’t get any bluer, are also in the top 10. Why cherry pick North Dakota? Oh, because it suits your political agenda. How Cheney-like.

This study is at best misleading, incomplete, and inconclusive.

By: Give Me A Break

Give Me A Break — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:25:54 +0000

My, what a surprise; yet another conservative religion bashing post on good ole Dvorak.org/blog. Will the wonders never cease? I guess it’s a requirement for the authors here to be liberal fools.

By: AlgoreIsWorseThanHitler

AlgoreIsWorseThanHitler — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:41:50 +0000

The problem with the “Conservative” group is that to get conservative fiscal and foreign policy you have to hold your nose and accept religion based “conservative” social policy along with it. Liberals have the opposite problem.

Neither group really represents mainstream America. We all have to prioritize and compromise when we’re voting.

By: Sonny

Sonny — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:16:20 +0000

Yall mean ders free porn ot der?

Well Jesus H. Christ. The preecher neber said nuting about that. Dang, mabe I won’t have to go to hell after all.

Yippee Skippee. Now, were do I find dis here free porn? Do ‘ey have pictures of nekkid wimen? are the titties real?

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:35:22 +0000

So looking at his tables, Mississippi and North Dakota are in the bottom ten of subscriptions per thousand people, but jump to the top 5 in terms of subscriptions per broadband.

This is a junk study for sure.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:13:55 +0000

#22, so you assume people in zipcodes are identical now?

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:58:48 +0000

I was motivated to read the actual paper here:

http://people.hbs.edu/bedelman/papers/redlightstates.pdf

The paper got its broadband data here:

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-280906A1.pdf

It turns out that the FCC data has some massive holes in it that perfectly explain why certain states show up highly. To boot:

Utah – No cable modem sub data available
Alaska – No cable modem data
Massachusettes – No ADSL data after 2005
Hawaii – No cable modem data

This study systematically underestimates broadband–ahem–penetration in certain states. Lo and behold, a lot of podunk “red states” don’t submit good data, and it makes the porn sub rates per thousand broadband users higher. But it’s because the broadband user number is wrong.

Finally, even the study finds that porn sub rates are pretty consistent across red and blue states, so the article’s cherry picking is BS.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:43:26 +0000

I disagree. Masturbating to pictures of young boys while on the web is “more connected” than I give the average congressperson. Shitting on the Constitution while burning money on the casket of a returned soldier is more my stereotype.

By: Animal Mother

Animal Mother — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:38:34 +0000

Nope, I’m pretty sure all Republicans are expert at one-handed web surfing. Just ask Mark Foley or Larry Craig.