Are The Doers Cleaner Than The Watchers?

ABC News is excited about porn. At least excited by the "fact" that conservative and religious states have the highest levels of porn usage in the country. This, ABC says, is according to a study by Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. Yes, it's another one of those dime-a-dozen studies.

ABC trumpets the bare "facts" in its February 28 piece titled, "Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers." In its first few paragraphs the report claims that, "Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious" than states in the more liberal areas of the country. But there is a problem with ABC's heavy-handed claim. Even the Harvard researcher doesn't put too much emphasis on the "conservative states" aspect because his data doesn't show a very wide gulf between states, conservative or not.

In fact, professor Edelman takes pains to say, "When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different." This tends to relay that the rates from state to state really aren't that notable. Edelman also says later in the piece that, "The differences here are not so stark," where it concerns the data he compiled. NewsBusters

The esteemed professor used up a lot of space just to end up saying “never mind”. But he could have made this story very telling.

We contend that the performers (the doers) of porn are overwhelmingly, if not entirely, liberals.

So if the professor’s claim was true, and let’s pretend it is for arguments sake, then he has a backfire on his hands.

Consider your choice of whether you would rather:

Actually eat a shit sandwich while being filmed

or

Watch a film of someone else actually eating a shit sandwich?

We thought so.