There's a shocking news story that's been circulating across online media outlets and newspapers this week. Well... at least WE were shocked. Here's one version of the story, from Tuesday's PC World online edition:
• Utah: Online Porn Capital of America?The Salt lake Tribune has the full story too, under this similarly lurid headline:
• Utah is No. 1 - for online pornography consumptionFrankly, we're still experiencing more than a slight amount of cognitive dissonance over this. After all, aren't we the only state in America with its own legislatively funded "porn Czar?" And what about that "Utah Family Values" thing?
This proposed discussion topic arrives on the Weber County front page this morning, courtesy of this morning's Standard-Examiner editorial, wherein the Std-Ex editorial board brings it all out in the open and tries to sort it all out:
• OUR VIEW: What's on your computer?Although we're grateful for the efforts of our home town newspaper to put it all in context, we're still operating on the assumption that those pointy-headed Harvard professors who published this study surely must have gotten their hands on some "bad data." Right?
So what say our gentle readers about this?
Hopefully there's an armchair psychologist or statistician amongst our readership who'll be able to make some sense of this. (Extra points will be awarded for any reader analysis which brings up the adjective "repressed.")
Utah: Online Porn Capital of America?
Tell us it ain't so, O Gentle Ones.
Perfect topic to kick off a weekend open topic thread, we think.
