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The Religious Right Consume More Porn

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A great story from The New Scientist. Apparently the more religious or ‘red’ the state, the more online porn they were likely to consume…

Though this does go down on Sundays apparently.

 This is so real because it’s an apparent paradox masking a deeper truth – religion thrives, hides and sustains itself on unresolved contradictions. Ask any Catholic

Eight of the top 10 pornography 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….

Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays – a 1% increase in a postal code’s religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds.

Forgive the brief and lascivious gloating nature of this diary, but it’s also cross posted at Sorealism.com, so it might be beneath my usual standard.