Utahians, cronic masturbators?

Besides its political bent, Utah's per capita appetite for online pornography makes it the nation's run-away red-light state.

A study by a Harvard Business School professor shows that Utah outpaces the more conservative states -- which all tend to purchase more Internet porn than other states.

Online porn subscription rates are higher in states that enacted conservative legislation banning same-sex marriage or civil unions and where surveys show support for conservative positions on religion, gender roles and sexuality, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

The Beehive State briefly experimented with a state-funded porn czar until 2003. The study examining online porn usage from 2006 to 2008 shows those efforts apparently failed.

Utah has the nation's highest online porn subscription rate per thousand home broadband users, at 5.47, while the nearby states of Idaho and Montana showed the lowest rates of 1.98 and 1.92, respectively, according to the study.

Utah's No. 1 score may have to do with its demographics, said the author of the study, Benjamin Edelman.

For instance, Internet porn subscriptions are particularly widespread in states with young populations, in the 15 to 24 age group, while people over 65 are less likely to subscribe. Income can be a another factor, with each $1,000 increase in average household income pushing up the number of subscribers. Rates also go

up with a college education and among people who are divorced, although marriage and graduate degrees have the opposite effect.

"Even when I control for income, age, education, and marital status, Utah residents still consume disproportionately more than people from other states," said Edelman.

Another possibility for Utah's top porn billing may be the scarcity of adult entertainment outside the home.

"If it is distinctively difficult to get this material in retail locations in Utah, Utah residents who seek such material may have to get it online," said Edelman, in an e-mail. "On net, then, Utah residents would be buying more online adult entertainment -- but perhaps not more total adult entertainment. That said, I analyzed only online adult entertainment, so I'm not in a position to assess the magnitude of this effect."

Although Utah is headquarters for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Edelman found that regions where people regularly attend religious services are not statistically different from their counterparts in more secular regions. But users who do attend religious services tend to shift their adult entertainment sessions to other days of the week than the day of services.

Pamela Atkinson, head of the Utah Coalition Against Pornography, said other indications, such has Utah ranking second in Google searches for "hot sex" and "naughty," back up what Edelman has found.

"What I do know is that from all accounts the problem is really growing in Utah," she said. "People spending more time on the Internet are realizing this is something they can do in the privacy of their own rooms and their own homes."

Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, who worked in law enforcement, said he has never dealt with a sex offender who didn't get his start with pornography.

"I'm not a huge fan of censoring the Internet, but this is definitely something to look into to see if we can stop the influx of pornography into our society, because pornography is such a plague. It's rotten to the core and it hurts families and it hurts children."

Daniel Weis, spokesman for the Colorado-based Christian group, Focus on The Family, said the study "is credible only for what it is studying, which is very little."

"My caution is that people do not extrapolate that this is a report for the entire nation," he said. "The fact that conservative-minded people are fighting porn doesn't mean that they go home and look at it."

The study used data from anonymous credit card sales from a top-10 Internet porn provider that operates hundreds of Web sites offering a wide variety of adult entertainment. Edelman then correlated that data with ZIP code information for his analysis.

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Yes, it should have been "chronic."

Well it was just a matter of time before they evolved into beings capable of internet operation, I guess....

😛

Originally posted by Robtard
Online porn subscription rates are higher in states that enacted conservative legislation banning same-sex marriage

I would assume they are the lowest among the subscriptions that include sites featuring two dudes going at it.

Never assume, who knows what people look at when they have the safety of closed doors.

Remember Ted Haggard, "homosexuality is a sin", "Evangelicals have the best [married] sex lives", etc.

Originally posted by Robtard
Utah has the nation's highest online porn subscription rate per thousand home broadband users, at 5.47, while the nearby states of Idaho and Montana showed the lowest rates of 1.98 and 1.92, respectively, according to the study.

unfortunately there is a confound here

given it is a proportion of users, the internet penetration of a state is going to play a factor. Computer geeks or others who want to use the internet for specific purposes (ie: getting porn) are going to get it, but the layman who rarely uses the internet might not, ie: people who use the internet for porn have a reason to have it, and will get it even in places where connection is uncommon. Whereas in states where there is greater internet penetration, it is reasonable to assume a similar number of people are getting porn, just that the ratio is reduced by the greater number of users who aren't getting porn.

Originally posted by inimalist
internet penetration

greater internet penetration

*snicker*

Originally posted by inimalist
unfortunately there is a confound here

given it is a proportion of users, the internet penetration of a state is going to play a factor. Computer geeks or others who want to use the internet for specific purposes (ie: getting porn) are going to get it, but the layman who rarely uses the internet might not, ie: people who use the internet for porn have a reason to have it, and will get it even in places where connection is uncommon. Whereas in states where there is greater internet penetration, it is reasonable to assume a similar number of people are getting porn, just that the ratio is reduced by the greater number of users who aren't getting porn.

Wouldn't that still mean there are more people going out of their way to get the porn?

The most unboring thing I've heard about Utah in a long long time.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Wouldn't that still mean there are more people going out of their way to get the porn?

nope

say 1 in 10 people will go out and get the internet, no matter what, to get porn.

in a population where only, say, 1 in 100 people have the internet, that 1% is going to have a higher percentage of people from the 1 in 10 group than in the 9/10 group, simply because the 9/10 are less likely to be part of the 1 in 100.

like, i have two bowls of fruit. one has 10 pieces, the other, 100.

there are 3 apples in the first bowl, and 30 in the second, giving comparable ratios of apples in both bowls. The rest of the fruit are oranges. Now, pretend I spray paint 5 oranges blue in both bowls.

lol, alright...

apples = people who will get the internet for porn
oranges = people who might get the internet
apples + blue oranges = people with the internet

the larger the population of oranges, the greater the ratio of apples to blue oranges will seem.

god, I tried to simplify that and it got even more confusing.

EDIT: this whole premise is based on the idea that people who want porn are more likely than those who do not to get the internet. Were it the case that internet access causes demand for porn, and not that demand for porn causes internet access (which is what I'm assuming), there would be no confound...

EDIT 2: stats make me so hot!

Originally posted by inimalist
nope

say 1 in 10 people will go out and get the internet, no matter what, to get porn.

in a population where only, say, 1 in 100 people have the internet, that 1% is going to have a higher percentage of people from the 1 in 10 group than in the 9/10 group, simply because the 9/10 are less likely to be part of the 1 in 100.

like, i have two bowls of fruit. one has 10 pieces, the other, 100.

there are 3 apples in the first bowl, and 30 in the second, giving comparable ratios of apples in both bowls. The rest of the fruit are oranges. Now, pretend I spray paint 5 oranges blue in both bowls.

lol, alright...

apples = people who will get the internet for porn
oranges = people who might get the internet
apples + blue oranges = people with the internet

the larger the population of oranges, the greater the ratio of apples to blue oranges will seem.

god, I tried to simplify that and it got even more confusing.

I like the apples and variously colored oranges metaphor but you didn't define what the blue oranges stand for which is what makes it confusing, I think.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I like the apples and variously colored oranges metaphor but you didn't define what the blue oranges stand for which is what makes it confusing, I think.

blue oranges are people who are on the internet for reasons other than porn, oranges that aren't painted are people without the internet.

So . . .

A --People w/ internet for pr4wn
B --People w/ internet not for pr0n
C --People w/o internet

A -- 3
B -- 5
C -- 7

A' -- 30
B' -- 5
C' -- 70

And now I see what you mean 🙂

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
So . . .

A --People w/ internet for pr4wn
B --People w/ internet not for pr0n
C --People w/o internet

A -- 3
B -- 5
C -- 7

A' -- 30
B' -- 5
C' -- 70

And now I see what you mean 🙂

C = 2

C' = 65

but ya, essentially 🙂

Originally posted by inimalist
C = 2

C' = 65

but ya, essentially 🙂

You should have used oranges and a different type of fruit then 😠 😛

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
You should have used oranges and a different type of fruit then 😠 😛

well, oranges represented potential internet users outside of the porn market

the way I thought it up they were a contiguous group

I feel a polygamy joke coming on....

Ok, got one.

Maybe polygamy and the porn are expressions of no sex before marriage and yet continuing to marry until you find a woman who's into anal?

I'm a chronic masturbator and I don't live in Utah.... That is all.

Perhaps they should try saddlebacking like the southern baptists and pentacostals?

Does this include women too?

If so, Utah just became awesome.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
I feel a polygamy joke coming on....

Ok, got one.

Maybe polygamy and the porn are expressions of no sex before marriage and yet continuing to marry until you find a woman who's into anal?

What if you luck out and the first Mormon woman you marry prefers it in the chute? Do you give up trying to be a polygamist, or do you look for yet another pooper to pop?

nah, i'd be satisfied, i'm not polyamorous. and for those who don't know, saddlebacking is when fundamentalist christian girls protect their technical virginities by taking it in the butt