On the heels of Hannity's statement that he has never watched porn I have to ask...what are the political implications of porn?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/03/hannity-panel-talks-porn_n_182801.html

Yes I know...Huffington Post...I won't watch it! It's just a clip from your beloved FOX...you won't get cooties I promise. Plus...you all loved Huffington when she was a rabid conservative right?

Hannity suggests those that watch porn are or grow up to be democrats.

We know that the state that watches the most internet porn is Utah. A traditionally conservative state

Thank you Utah for breeding tons of democrats I guess. After all..mmm I would get banned for staing the obvious I am sure.

So, who has dirty little secrets?

Do some people like sex better if it is forbidden and illegal?

Does it matter?

Is there a public dishonesty about private behavior in this country?

Friggin' hypocrites...

I plead the 5th

This reminds me of a funny incident that happened here, in the campaigning prior to the elections for our new Prime Minister.

A smear campaign was created focussing on the idea that to vote for Kevin Rudd, was to elect a pervert...

In his University days,(his early twenties) Kevin went to a strip club, along with about twenty of his male and female friends.

Apparently the Australian public was supposed to be shocked, and disgusted...and would turn their interest in his policies away, and focus on his smutty horrendous crime.

Guess what? He's our Prime Minister....won by a long shot!

You know why?

Cause the man said, "of course I went to a strip club, of course I have seen women perform in a provocative manner for money... I am an Australian man, I was a young Australian man.. with many other young Australians."

He won because the man is REAL...he is no different to about 80% of all Australians, and their times of fascination for taboo... we wouldn't trust a man who had not experienced ALL of life... as he would not relate to the common man.

Grats to your electorate and to the Prime Minister.

Lucky you aren't in the United States...when England was shipping out folks we got the puritans.

Enough said eh?

hahahaha!!!!!!!! We got the convicts!

Does it show?

I plead the 69th.

Sure, I've checked out and played along with a couple gals.
To just sit and watch porn, naw. I'm a hands on, got to have real, warm, wet, pulsating, vibrant, sexual, stimulated, willing, sensual,eager, passionate woman type of guy.

Would I watch it again? Yeah, if I had a gal that made the suggestion to play that way.

Anyone wanna' play?

i think most of the world can admit to a strip club, nudie magazines/videos or even a dirty litle thought. at least i can admit things....wait...i plead the 5th

Blame Wyoming, everyone from Utah gets their porn there...trust me.

Should I ask how a guy from Illinois knows that people from Utah get their porn from Wyoming?

Seems they are getting it on-line.

Is porn more fun when it is forbidden,secret and shameful? haha

lynann...IMO i think taboo things or the secrecy adds to it for some people. some hide it for other reasons. some are open about it.

Im not even sure if the stuff I prefer is even porn Is Playboy still considered porn?

I read Penthouse for the articles!

I think Playboy is likely still considered porn by many. Heck, I heard about a big controversy in the quilting publication world recently.

JoAnn Fabrics pulled the magazine from it's racks deeming them too risque.

Who knew you could get quilting porn?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/04/AR2009030403994.html

"We're talking fabric phalluses. Gun-toting Jesuses. A newborn peering out from his mother's lady parts (constructed out of lots of soft, embroidered orange cloth).

Some of the images are disturbing -- and moving -- like quilter Gwen Magee's "Southern Heritage/Southern Shame," which depicts five lynching victims hanging in front of a Confederate flag.

Others are whimsical. Consider "Helping Hands," a Charlottesville quilter's ode to Viagra. The work was inspired by a present from a friend: "A fat quarter of fabrics with all these itty-bitty penises and sperm," says Mary Beth Bellah, describing the pile of remnants with delight.

The finished product is asymmetrical and somewhat abstract: dozens of little blue pills spiraling out from a central hand. It's nothing like what you could buy in Amish country, although it does seem appropriate as a wedding quilt. Bellah considers herself an artist and has displayed her quilts in private shows. At a recent show in a hospital, "Helping Hands" ended up stashed in a closet after a few complaints.
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This, participants say, is the crux of the quilting kerfuffle. Not whether the buck-naked-man quilt depicted on Page 28 is too salacious but whether it should be placed in the same category as the carefully patterned Sunbonnet Sue quilts that have defined the genre and the community"

This is with out a doubt the most worthless piece of news I have ever read.Your also not going to get me to belive that Utah downloads more porn with a population of only 2,736,424 people.California alone has 36,756,666.Nice try but your news is usually good for nothing more than a laugh.

This from a man still stuck in the 50's...

Does anyone seriously believe Hannity has never watched porn? Now that is funny.

Used to live in Utah, from north Utah about a half hour drive up north you get to Wyoming where the porn is 10x better.

I was actually with a very right wing guy who introduced me to porn so what does that then say???? LOL

Craziness.....

Hey Thomas? Since you chose to directly address me I feel I have the right to respond to you directly as well.

I don't care in the least about your assessment of my posts or of me personally. Your posts are consistent I will give you that...I could go on about your posts but why state the obvious eh?

Here is some information on porn, the internet and Utah.
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Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers

* 16:18 27 February 2009 by Ewen Callaway

Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.

A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states.

"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.
Political divide

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 porn 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 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.
Old-fashioned values

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.

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

To get a better handle on other associations between social attitudes and pornography 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 behaviour."

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

Journal reference: Journal of Economic Perspectives vol 23, p 209 (pdf)

Enbedded link to the pdf at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html

Dang Gal, you been studyin' up a bit.
Good read!

thinkin' someone knows her facts in this...hmmmmmmmmmmm