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Re: good read -- Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:48:34 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: March 2, 2009 11:38:25 AM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net>Subject: Re: [IP] good read -- Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers
2. Conservative states are less computer-savvy and thus less likely to use file-trading networks, so people pay for porn in those states rather than getting it free. 3. Conservatives buy less porn but their consciences require that they pay for it; liberals are more likely to ignore copyright restrictions, so their consumption doesn't show up in an analysis of credit card payments.
Dave, I would agree that it's difficult to draw any, uh, firm conclusions about overall porn consumption based on purchase patterns at this stage. There are such vast quantities of generally legal free porn (ranging from amateur to professional) on the Net -- available on ordinary Web sites without file trading -- that the porn industry per se has been suffering a significant downturn. This is not a matter of small notice even to mainstream media here in the West San Fernando Valley, the acknowledged porn production and distribution center of the U.S., if not the world. It's been traditionally very common out here to have neighbors at home or the office who are somehow affiliated with the porn industry, in front of or behind the cameras. And in fact, most of the time these folks seem completely average -- with some notable exceptions. Ah, good ol' L.A. Anyhow, the point is that porn *purchases* now would appear to be more in "specialty" categories from die-hard fans of particular genres. It's unclear to me how well this scales to overall interest in porn. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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