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Conservatives, Porn, and ?Community Standards?

View the article here 03/02/2009 By Adam Thierer Ben Edelman of the Harvard Business School has just released an interesting new study in the Journal of Economic Perspectives entitled, ?Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? (PDF)? Using data he obtained from a top-10 seller of adult entertainment, Edelman examined adult website subscriptions on the zip code level and found that conservatives seem to be every bit as interested in pornography as liberals. In fact, ?Subscriptions [to adult entertainment sites] are slightly more prevalent in states that have enacted conservative legislation on sexuality? and ?subscriptions are also more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender roles, and sexuality...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 03, 2009 (boomark / email).