Porn Use Higher in Red States, Study Shows

More Internet pornography is consumed in states with conservative, highly religious populations than in states with more liberal populations, a new study claims. Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, conducted a nationwide study using two years of anonymized credit-card receipts from a major adult entertainment provider. The receipts included a purchase date and the customer's ZIP code. According to Edelman, Utah is proportionately the biggest consumer of online porn, with 5.47 subscriptions for every 1,000 home broadband users; Montana's rate is the lowest, with 1.92 per 1,000. The study also showed that 27 states with laws that ban gay marriage have 11% higher subscription rates than states without laws against gay marriage.