About That Conservatives and Porn StoryIt strikes me that lots of variables
haven't been controlled for:
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.
What this doesn't tell us is anything about overall consumption of pornography, just online pornography. And the problem with that is that I would assume that online consumption of pornography is highest where offline availability of pornography is lowest.