The musical Avenue Q has a song "The Internet is for Porn." The Winter edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives has an article by Benjamin Edelman about that very issue. Titled "Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment," it matched credit card numbers with zip codes and the reported what it found by state. Now, porn is one of those internet applications that needs a fast connections -- all the better to download movies. Here's a couple things they found:
The state that has the highest porn consumption: Utah, home of the Mormon Church. Second is Alaska, though likely due to the sparse population.
In general, the redder the state the higher the porn consumption. But aren't these the states with the higher percentages of conservative Christians? Definitely. That suggests if your church preaches a repressive sexuality the members are going to look for sexual gratification in unhealthy places, ignoring what the church preaches.
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