Okay, warning: I'm veering out of the usual songwriting territory and veering into pure politics, but I saw this and I had to comment. Does this surprise anyone? It seems there are studies on everything these days, and the subject of this particular study was on the popularity and consumption rate of pornography from state to state, using anonymised credit card data from a major online adult entertainment provider as the criteria.
"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.
Typical. I'm so not shocked by this news I may not pass out and hit my head on the floor. Those that decry the evil pornography the most are those that are using it more than anyone else. If this was just a simple question of human foibles and harmless hypocrisy, that would be one thing. But this is a much deeper issue than that.
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