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nobodyspecial

(2,286 posts)
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 09:15 PM Mar 2012

Santorum picked the wrong fight; GOP loves its porn (more than liberals), study shows

Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/story?id=6977202&page=1#.T2KOOHJkF7s

Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds. "Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.

Guess which state tops the list? Utah! "The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users."

Here's the bottom-line fun fact you can pull out as this debate heats up: "Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama."

My theory is that the GOP has trouble accepting and coping with their natural urges and instincts and feel the need to pass laws to prohibit it. It matches with their authoritarian mindset. They can't trust themselves -- or others -- to make the right moral choices in accordance with their beliefs so they feel the need to legislate against it.

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Santorum picked the wrong fight; GOP loves its porn (more than liberals), study shows (Original Post) nobodyspecial Mar 2012 OP
Republicans are probably the ones watching the dude in the panda suit. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #1
I have no idea what you are talking about nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #2
To paraphrase yoda Confusious Mar 2012 #13
No, see Aerows Mar 2012 #3
Yes! Icicle Mar 2012 #4
The religulously insane hate their own humanity. hifiguy Mar 2012 #32
Without exception, the men in my life who have been into porn have been...... kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #5
I've never dated a conservative nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #9
They seem to love me. I have no idea why - I'm not a Barbie in the least. kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #19
I like porn Confusious Mar 2012 #14
I hope you meant a real woman cyberswede Mar 2012 #27
If you want real women to be attracted to you nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #28
Haven't had a problem so far Confusious Mar 2012 #38
What!....Republicans are hypocrites? Say it ain't so. yourout Mar 2012 #6
a joke d_r Mar 2012 #26
I hope Santorum wins the rethug nomination guardian Mar 2012 #7
In my mind's eye he wins a few more. MarianJack Mar 2012 #10
You're probably right. guardian Mar 2012 #36
We agree about a MAJOR ass kicking! MarianJack Mar 2012 #37
My theory is those that can't get laid take it out on those that can Initech Mar 2012 #8
More like Confusious Mar 2012 #15
I think you are correct nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #20
Message to Rick from freepers RobertEarl Mar 2012 #11
?? Wouldn't those cold, dead hands be wrapped around--never mind. nt tblue37 Mar 2012 #42
I agree with your theory - poor pitiful sinners! polichick Mar 2012 #12
Subscriptions???? mackattack Mar 2012 #16
The Utah deal is simple. Keeping all those wives happy takes some stimulation. dimbear Mar 2012 #17
There are 2 parts to the Sex Industry athenasatanjesus Mar 2012 #18
Post removed Post removed Mar 2012 #21
I have no idea what you are talking about nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #22
He means liberals think porn should be free and only fools pay for it. nt tblue37 Mar 2012 #43
I was replying to LSI nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #45
Sorry--I didn't even notice the hidden post! nt tblue37 Mar 2012 #46
Santorum William769 Mar 2012 #23
I figure Pat Robinson will be weighing in on the porn issue shortly.. Historic NY Mar 2012 #24
Santorum wants to ban porn but... progressoid Mar 2012 #25
They'll give you their porn when you take it from their hairy callousy palms. Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2012 #29
Ask Clarence Thomas kskiska Mar 2012 #30
Kind of like the Victorian Age in Merry Old England...sexual repression... joeybee12 Mar 2012 #31
so, the repugs are waging a war on women and anything to do with sex newspeak Mar 2012 #33
GOP-edophile ...list of repukes L0oniX Mar 2012 #34
Excellent list nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #35
"Error. klook Mar 2012 #47
Back in the bad old days malthaussen Mar 2012 #39
Santorum is the poster child for sexual repression. briv1016 Mar 2012 #40
ah, but they are coming to Tampa this year onethatcares Mar 2012 #41
It's another attempt to paint Romney as a devil-worshipping death culture hedonist Warren DeMontague Mar 2012 #44
 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
3. No, see
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 09:22 PM
Mar 2012

They like to be sanctimonious about it in public, and then enjoy it in private. And yes, they are the worst. My brother in law got a bunch of videos on my mother's computer over Christmas one year, and I had to clean up her PC. He didn't empty the recycling bin, and what I saw was awful.

Icicle

(121 posts)
4. Yes!
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 09:28 PM
Mar 2012

"My theory is that the GOP has trouble accepting and coping with their natural urges and instincts and feel the need to pass laws to prohibit it. It matches with their authoritarian mindset. They can't trust themselves -- or others -- to make the right moral choices in accordance with their beliefs so they feel the need to legislate against it."

You said it all right there.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
32. The religulously insane hate their own humanity.
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 11:29 AM
Mar 2012

They think it keeps them separated from gawd. This verges on mental illness and may well step over that line.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
5. Without exception, the men in my life who have been into porn have been......
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 09:32 PM
Mar 2012

yep, you guessed it, CONSERVATIVES.

Confusious

(8,317 posts)
14. I like porn
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:45 PM
Mar 2012

Last edited Fri Mar 16, 2012, 06:12 PM - Edit history (2)

I like a real woman a whole hell of a lot better.

on edit: changed for the stick-up-the-butt crowd.

Confusious

(8,317 posts)
38. Haven't had a problem so far
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 06:16 PM
Mar 2012

Well, I take that back. My first long term relationship. She was kind of stickler for words like you.

That was a nightmare I never wish to return to.

d_r

(6,907 posts)
26. a joke
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 12:24 AM
Mar 2012

if you take a right-wing fundamentalist with you fishing, how do you keep him from drinking all of your beer? Take another right-wing fundamentalist.

 

guardian

(2,282 posts)
7. I hope Santorum wins the rethug nomination
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 09:41 PM
Mar 2012

he will be soooooo easy to beat. I bet he'll be lucky if he wins 4 states.

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
10. In my mind's eye he wins a few more.
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:40 PM
Mar 2012

I see him winning South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho.

He'd still get a major ass-kicking. It would be just what that little sit deserves.

That's just my 2 cents and quite possibly overpriced at that!

PEACE!

 

guardian

(2,282 posts)
36. You're probably right.
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 03:15 PM
Mar 2012

I was being a bit hyperbolic. Though my main point is Santorum and the rethugs would get a major ass kicking.

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
37. We agree about a MAJOR ass kicking!
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 03:37 PM
Mar 2012

Winning 7 states in a Presidential election is hardly more consolation than winning 4.

However, it WOULD feel a little better tto say that President Obama won 46 states than 43. That's a very nice paradox.

PEACE!

nobodyspecial

(2,286 posts)
20. I think you are correct
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 11:13 PM
Mar 2012

Look at how many vocal opponents of gays have been caught with their pants down.

 

mackattack

(344 posts)
16. Subscriptions????
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:49 PM
Mar 2012

Ok, the big surprise here is NOT that conservatives watch porn...it is that conservatives pay for porn.

Who does that in 2012???

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
17. The Utah deal is simple. Keeping all those wives happy takes some stimulation.
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:53 PM
Mar 2012

And not only that, it's Biblical. King David.

athenasatanjesus

(859 posts)
18. There are 2 parts to the Sex Industry
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:57 PM
Mar 2012

Liberals often criticize the industry part,while conservatives often criticize the sex part.

Response to nobodyspecial (Original post)

nobodyspecial

(2,286 posts)
45. I was replying to LSI
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 11:27 PM
Mar 2012

who had his post hidden by the jury. I'm not really into porn, but I know you don't have to pay for it.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
31. Kind of like the Victorian Age in Merry Old England...sexual repression...
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 10:26 AM
Mar 2012

The ladies of the evening business boomed because of this.

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
33. so, the repugs are waging a war on women and anything to do with sex
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 12:03 PM
Mar 2012

We have people out of work, people losing their decent jobs, no health insurance; and the repugs have found besides gay issues, other social issues, like sex and bc. WTF, any woman who votes for these cretins, must hate their own sex.

You got pridemore talking about a child raised by a single parent should be considered abuse and women should think of the good times when their spouse is beating them. I cannot believe this is the 21st century. It reminds me of the book, "the handmade's tale." These people seem very, very creepy.

 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
34. GOP-edophile ...list of repukes
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 12:30 PM
Mar 2012

Posted by L0oniX in General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007)
Tue Oct 03rd 2006, 07:30 PM
* Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after “sexually explicit” e-mails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year-old boy.

* Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year-old girl on the Internet.

* Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year-old girl.

* Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year-old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year-old girl and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation.

* Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year-old boy.

* Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the

age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.

* Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl.

* Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13- and 14-year-old girls.

* Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.

* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year-old girls.

* Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the Internet.

* Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year-old girls.

* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

* Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

* Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year-old girl he murdered.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years’ probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year-old girl.

* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year-old black girl, which produced a child.

* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

* Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year-old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.

* Republican activist Lawrence E. King Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and
sentenced to one month in jail.

* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

* Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his stepdaughter.

* Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.

* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police
on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year-old boy and possession of child pornography.

* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year-old babysitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

* Republican talk-show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11-year-old girl.

* Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year-old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the Internet from a 14-year-old girl.

* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year-old boy.

* Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e., exposing himself to children).

* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year-old girl.

* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a boy.

* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl.

* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6 months in prison.

* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer
and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the Internet.

* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

* Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.

* Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year-old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

* Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

* Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.
Example shown below.


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malthaussen

(17,215 posts)
39. Back in the bad old days
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 06:28 PM
Mar 2012

(which they're trying to revive), there were a lot of parodies about Conservative hypocrisy and pornography. A typical such satire would have the head of a censorship board saying something like "That film was so disgusting, we had to watch it five or six times to find all the horrible, perverted things in it."

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose.

-- Mal

briv1016

(1,570 posts)
40. Santorum is the poster child for sexual repression.
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 06:53 PM
Mar 2012

Every other week he is talking about how much he hates sex. In 3-5 years he's either going to come out of the closet or die in a autoerotic asphyxiation accident.

onethatcares

(16,178 posts)
41. ah, but they are coming to Tampa this year
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 07:03 PM
Mar 2012

perhaps someone would want to take photos of delegates paying the cover charge and going into the MonsVenus or Odessy on Dale Mabry Highway. I'ts not porn, but it would be butt nekkid dancing within 3 ft of any delegation with no touching.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
44. It's another attempt to paint Romney as a devil-worshipping death culture hedonist
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 08:21 PM
Mar 2012

since Romney was associated with Marriott, or something, and Marriotts had porn, or what passes for porn on the pay per view, and gosh gee whillickers, someone may have once masturbated in a hotel room while watching "Foreskin Gump" of which moral crisis Romney was apparently not concerned enough with.

On Santorum's plus side, though, he's just picked up the votes of about 20 pissed-off 2nd Waver/Andrea Dworkin devotees, the people for whom there is NO MORE PRESSING ISSUE than stopping consenting adults from oppressing other consenting adults by watching them fuck on a video screen.

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