Harvard Study Finds Link between Conservatism and…Porn?

Posted on March 5, 2009
Filed Under News, Politics | By Jessica Gross

Who doesn’t love academic research about porn? A recent study by Benjamin G. Edelman, Harvard prof and former student, found that if you live in a “red state,” you’re more likely to subscribe to a porn site than if you live in a “blue state.” And by “red states,” the study means those that have “passed conservative legislation on sexuality.” Contradictory, perhaps?

Martha “Martabel” Wasserman, a Harvard junior who edits the school’s sex mag (H-Bomb), thinks so.

“It shows that they’re hypocritical, and that we shouldn’t make pornography and sex work illegal, but should instead make conditions better for the sex workers,” she said.

But WAIT! Before you get uppity about these results (ahem, Wasserman), note that the study doesn’t have stats on whether the individual porn subscribers are liberal or conservative — only which category their home state falls into. As Edelman puts it, “There are facts here that are useful, on both sides.”

(Source: The Harvard Crimson)

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