"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 **** 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.

Edelman spends part of his time helping companies such as Microsoft and AOL detect advertising fraud. Another consulting client runs dozens of adult websites, though he says he is not at liberty to identify the firm.

That company did, however, provide Edelman with roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date and each customer's postal code.

After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states - online **** tends to be a bandwidth hog - and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest.

The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.

Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32.

Eight of the top 10 ****ography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election - Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.

Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more **** subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage.

To get a better handle on other associations between social attitudes and ****ography consumption, Edelman melded his data with a previous study on public attitudes toward religion.

States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement "I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage," bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be God's punishment for immoral sexual behavior."

"One natural hypothesis is something like repression: if you're told you can't have this, then you want it more," Edelman says.

What does the Bible say about masturbation btw?

Why should I care if conservatives view **** a little more anyway?

Because Republicans are usually the ones who annoy us about these kinds of stuff.

What are the conservatives?

maybe they view **** more because they masturbate instead of having sex, since the Bible says not to have sex before marriage, and conservatives are more likely to take it literally? idk....

lol... so hypocritical

Maybe they are watching **** for other reason and not for what you are thinking. Maybe it is for the great video quality, or the story, or... wait... I don't even believe what I just said.

Anyway, Republicans don't just come out everyday and say "don't masturbate." Seriously did someone ever make a presidential nominee speech about that. And you are classifying republicans into all believing exactly the same thing. Not every one of them is annoying.

lmao

I know. I hate being stereotyped as well, but in general, most of them are annoying.

Geez, you're so upstanding. It can be really annoying sometimes.

I'm like that when it comes to this because I know many republicans personally and I know they are not like Flashing Lights says. That is why the generalization bothered me. I don't fault Flashing Lights and made no attack directed at him, just simply directed at the comment. I see no problem with what I did.