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When it comes to porn, there's nothing Mickey Mouse about the hometown of Disney World.
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In its April edition, Men's Health magazine ranks the nation's 100 "smuttiest" U.S. cities. Not only did Orlando, Fla. — home to Walt Disney World and SeaWorld — finish No. 1, but Florida headed the list of smuttiest states.
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"It seems that while tourists line up at a kid-friendly fantasy world, the locals prefer one in which Snow White and the dwarfs whistle while they... well, you know," the magazine offered.
Tampa, Fla. — where the Republican National Convention will take place this summer — came in at No. 8. But Democrats shouldn't make fun. The home of their convention — Charlotte, N.C. — is No. 5.
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Men's Health said it based its rankings on the number of X-rated DVDs bought, rented or streamed, as compiled by AdultDVDEmpire.com; the number of adult entertainment stores per city, as monitored by StorErotica.net; the rate of porn searches, via Google; and the percentage of households that subscribe to Cinemax, the bluest of the cable movie networks.
The Top 10:
1. Orlando, Fla.
2. Las Vegas
3. Wilmington, Del.
4. Raleigh, N.C.
5. Charlotte, N.C.
6. Minneapolis
7. Atlanta
8. Tampa, Fla.
9. Anchorage, Alaska
10. Austin, Texas
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Austin comes in at number 10, eh? Forbes.com just named us as the fastest-growing city in the country, for the second year in a row, as well. I guess everything is growing in Austin! :-P
Mostly Red States?
How ironic.
"Mostly Red States"
In fairness, Austin is the most liberal city in Texas, sometimes called the "People's Republic of Austin". It's residents started a public relations campaign to "keep Austin Weird" (full disclosure: I love Austin.)
I don't know what the excuse is for North Carolina and Florida. Fundamentalist, Southern Baptists and Cuban exiles love porn?
True, but not the reddest states, so I doubt the causal connection. I can understand Anchorage. Flordia and Vegas are sex farms, and well known for it. The others are a little more interesting.
Curious how they define "porn crazy"... is it by % of city population or # of population?
Sam wrote: "In fairness, Austin is the most liberal city in Texas, sometimes called the "People's Republic of Austin"."... hmmm, does Austin have Democrat majority? If not, then what is your point? Austin is the least RED????
This is kinda like working with kids... they want what they can't have... affirmation that repression and denial doesn't work... snicker...
If you don't get this Facebook thing off of here, I will never come back to MSNBC for the news.
Seattle can't even make the top ten? Wtf Washington. Get on it!
As interesting as this is, most people nowadays get their porn on the internet, not shopping in actual brick and mortar stores. I mean, unsavvy do you have to be to go out and actually buy a DVD instead of the instant gratification of getting your freak on without stirring from with just a few mouse clicks?
So end result of the survey is totally wrong: they didn't necessarily nail the most porn obsessed cities, but the most technologically backward cities with least citizen knowledge of surfing the internet for porn :D
Again.. mostly red state cities!
And Wilmington, Delaware, comes in 3rd. I guess that's an indication that bankers love smut since Wilmington is the headquarters of many large banks.
Keep Austin Wierd...the motto for Austin. Lots of burn outs still in Austin with plenty of drugs, porno houses to go around. Deemed as what ever feels good in Austin is OK. Liberal is the majority of Austin residents.
No suprise that two North Carolina cities made the list. The fist time I ever drove through that state I couldn't believe the smut all over the billboards along the freeway.
Urban Cowboy:
"Red State Cities"? Gimmie a break. If you want to politicize it, remember that urban areas are almost solid blue.
Seattle can't even make the top ten? Wtf Washington.
Satanick:
If you give any creedence to what our fellow posters are saying here, Seattle is far to liberal to make the list. While their logic seems counterintuitive to me, being on the list of "smuttiest" cities is one distinction I think we can do without (and yes, I know you're just kidding).
SI
Are they SURE Tucson isn't on the list? I mean, I live there after all...
Goes to show that the more repressive a culture -- the more immoral the people. In Japan, one of the most repressive cultures in the world, people will pay BIG money to have a chance to smash things and do stuff that would otherwise bring shame to their families for at least three generations into the future.
What's immortal about it?
Japan is repressive? Really?
I don't know, quackers. I saw an article some time over the last couple of years about the big market in Japan for the used panties of Japanese schoolgirls. Japanese businessmen are apparently quite the afficionados. Does this sound like a sexually repressed culture to you?
Satanick; last time I went back home - Seattle had shut down The Pink Lady and Sugars. The Pink Lady was even featured on HBO's Real Sex.
Seattle's once thriving Blues scene in Ballard and Pioneer Square werealso dead - but the Gay Capital Hill district was booming... lol.
The times they are a changin'.
Toasty - here in Tucson and the rest of Arizona - they have a thriving Sauna/massage industry - that wasn't part of their consideration when they made the list. Moving from Washington State where a Sauna business might have 2 cars out front, I noticed the Saunas here in AZ had packed parking lots. Also, our teens here just hump - they don't mess around with just watching.
Most are red states, its irony went beyond that.
Most red states get more federal money - over 1 dollar for every dollar of tax they pay. And they are more anti-tax, vote more republican, and use more porn...
Most of the things they surveyed could be from tourists too- the Cinemax subscriptions is really the only thing that can be used to determine from the local populace. Sex stores would be a huge tourist stop too, especially tourists from areas that don't have one near. Most have laptops nowadays, so google searches and streaming/online porn isn't any sort of indicator either.
Basically, there is a reason that the top two are also top tourist locations, and there is likely more connection to that than anything else.
Sorry Zanilth if Tourism/visitation was the driver, then places like Charleston SC, New Orleans, Branson Mo and Maui Hi would have been at the top of the list. They have small local populations and huge numbers of tourists. Heck New York City would have been very high, we have a huge number of both tourists and daily visitors what swell our local population. (And I am assuming this was on a Per HH basis as I read the original article and it obviously is)
However we get Cinemax in my home, I never knew it was the smuttiest. And I don't see that as being a fair criteria. We don't watch any porn.soft porn shows on it--then again NYC has at least 15 dirty channels and we have never watched those either)
If I wanted Porn in my home, I would turn on the lights in the BR at night
Figures -- mostly Red States.
Publically, they decry porn while secretly watching it.
Like all the GOPs in Congress who were publically anti-gay, and in reality, huge closet cases (Larry Craig, Mark Foley, et al).
Republicans, Conservatives --- the biggest goddam hypocrite liars on the planet.
mmmm. pornnnn.
Okay liberals, I'm Republican and I watch p0rn. Get over it. Now let's address you people accusing these states of being red states:
1. Orlando, Fla. - Obama won Florida
2. Las Vegas - Harry Reid's state that voted for Obama
3. Wilmington, Del. - Joe Biden's state that voted for Obama
4. Raleigh, N.C. - Voted for Obama
5. Charlotte, N.C. - Again, voted for Obama
6. Minneapolis, M.N. - State that voted for Obama
7. Atlanta, G.A. - Voted for McCain
8. Tampa, Fla. - Again, state voted for Obama
9. Anchorage, Alaska - Voted for McCain
10. Austin, Texas - Voted for McCain, but a blue city that's pure liberal Democrat
My math shows that as three states out of ten being red (and the only qualifying city of one of them being flaming liberal). Only liberal progressive math can deduce that the majority of these states are red states...at least when it comes to electing an incompetent Democrat president that the liberal-biased main stream dinosaur media fell in love with.
So next time liberals, get your facts straight. But I know, you liberals can't stand facts and make up your own fabrications of reality based upon what you "Feel" is the truth. Facts be damned.
Are you actually going to say that it is RED STATES that are into the most porn, when our Commander and Chief's (DEMOCRATS) Secret Service had HOOKERS in their ROOMS. Yes, we Republicans do think it is the President's fault for not knowing what is going on under his nose, we just didn't want to bring it up. But since you guys are oblivious to that and only notice a way to link Republicans with scandal, I might as well put it out there.
And you DEMOCRATS act like we're the one who are HYPOCRITES? You guys probably would have covered that up if the story didn't break.
No doubt this is another stupid article by MSNBC. Keep in mind that if MSNBC keeps bringing this up, I'm going to have to call them on their crap.
Unhappy: you won't see any libs talk about Obama's lackluster Secret Service shenanigans (guess that service is no longer secret anymore, lol).
And when you look at what states voted for Obama in 2008 as my previous post lays out, most of these are BLUE states. But since when did emotion-driven liberal hysterics ever care about the truth and facts to push their left wing agenda?
What would have been MORE useful for this poll is to determine the PER CAPITA most pron-crazy city in 'merka.
Albuquerque NM would prolly be #1. Sunday morning Catholic saints by day. Horny toads by night.
STATE - Party of Governor
Alaska - Republican
Delawear - Democrat
Flordia - Republican
Georgia - Republican
Minnesota - Democrat
Nevada - Republican
North Carolina - Democrat
Texas - Republican
Jkawke - that's 5 States that have Republican Governors and 3 that have Democrat Governors. Governors reflect how a State leans more than who they voted for President. Where did you come up with 10 States? Now that you have been owned - do you see why we call you out when you twist things to exonerate your party.
I was hoping it would be 4 and 4 - since I see no difference in either party.
-YES- lol.
Explain Arnold.
I figured it would be relatively equal - humans in general like their smut. Hell, we put the stuff up inside our caves waaayyy back when. The only difference in the parties would be if they admit to it or not.
It's not lovingly called "skin'emax" for nothing.
@Unhappy
Are you saying the agents assigned to him were Democrats? Otherwise, your little implication makes absolutely no sense.
The article did indicate that streams were counted as well - but from what I read it appears to be only streams that people purchase subscriptions to....
Most people just surf their favorite free sites, so honestly all this survey shows is the least internet savvy cities in America =P
I can tell you that I was a major contributor to Orlando making the #1 spot on this list and it was from 100% streaming on a daily basis so this report wasn't exclusively from physical media rentals or sales. I'm glad at least that Orlando is noted for something other than the Casey Anthony bullsh!t or Trayvon Martin.
So you're saying that neither Orlando nor Las Vegas are big tourist spots? I didn't say tourism was the driving force everywhere- just that these locations could be chocked up to the amount of tourism that frequents them.
How many sex toy shops are in those locations you listed? Not everywhere even allows them- so if those locations don't allow them (dunno, never been to any of those locations to see about toy shops) then it wouldn't matter how many tourists (or locals) wanted to visit one there.
They should do a Top 10 States - Gay P0rn Survey...
Cali and NY aside, it would be verrrry interesting...I bet Utah would make top 5.
Hey geniuses, porn has nothing to do with politics! ... except for that porn star who ran for mayor once.
Not surprising since it's Florida
Talk about an ignorant comment, you know nothing of taxation and distribution of federal funds. A large part of the federal money going to the states is transportation dollars to make up for the low populations of said states compared to the number of vehicles traveling THROUGH. Roads, bridges, dams, etc are expensive and benefit the entire population, not just the few hundred thousand to a few million that live in most of the middle states that are far larger than the densly populated coastal states.
Not Arnald but I can explain. Its true, for instance, most people assume states are red because they were told so or simply want to believe it. I currently live in Kentucky, and I too ASSUMED it was a red state. Nope.
They vote republican in national elections, but republican governers and house majorities are rare. The two major cities almost always have democrat mayors, Lexington's is not only democrat, but gay too, and there are more registered democrats than republicans in KY as well. The DNC it seems, just does not do a good job convincing and motivating democrats here in the national elections but they dominate state and local politics.
Hows that for your stereotype based world view?
WOW, Sco; you call out stereotypes and then drag Gays into the conversation? I guess the smoke coming out of your nose and ears clouded your (proof reading) eyesight... angry much?
How the DNC or the RNC convinces any of you to follow them is a mystery - but then people have been following a dead Jesus for 2000 years - so I shouldn't be surprised.
Not angry at all, that's just you projecting. How did I "drag gays in? Just pointing out how completely ignorant people are of "red states". And by the way, I'm from Chicago, a city just as big as most on the coasts. If you had good reading compreshesnion you would have noticed I was speaking about myself too because I don't exclude the states and people I dont agree with as somehow seperate from me.
I voted for Jim Grey as I live in Lexington, our elections are non partisan and despite the Mayor being openly gay, it was never even mentioned in the campaign. While he is a democrat and I am a conservative, he had a plan I liked, and the previous mayor made some serious missteps Since the election he has actually delivered on many promises and I plan on voting for him again in two years.
There is nothing wrong with mentioning someone is gay, especially when making a point about false stereotypes, why are you so uptight about it? And you do realise you are a bigot, right? "Any of you", that is a disgusting phrase used by ignorant people because it presupposes a false sense of superiority. Emphasis on FALSE.
JaneEco
The quote you were looking for is by Mark Twain.
"There are lies. There are damnable lies. Then there are statistics."
These people told you up front exactly what they based their study on. I'm not sure what your point is. While I'm sure the majority of anonymised credit-card receipts are for sex, in Utah they could just be hiding that they are buying coffee. I'll go with this study over yours. If nothing else they don't butcher one of my favorite authors without giving him credit.
David, actually, it is a myth that Twain is the source of that quote, he may have said it or paraphrased it, but it is not his. The actual quote word for word is "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics" and it is actually atrributed to Leonard H. Courtney.
I was under the same impression until I tried to find the actual date of the quote and it led me to the actual source before Twain (Clemens).
Correction, change "damn lies" to "damned lies". I always get that wrong. It has also been attributed to Benjamin Disraeli but that is not true either.
What I find weird guys is the fact that the article mentions Disney as an Orlando attraction when Disney World is located in Kissimmee. Funny thing though, considering that NBC Universal owns Universal Studios in Orlando. Maybe they tried to smudge Disney and avoided to mention that a company of theirs is in the center of that town? Just wondering...
Geez, you red tea-bagging states are certainly hypocrites!!!
im not really buying into this non scientific study....i do find it interesting that they chose not to include cities with the most xxx production houses...while im guessing here....ill bet LA is at the top of that list....and as others have alluded to, some cities zoning schemes keep porn stores and such out of the city limits which may account for lower ratings for those cities.,..porn is considered an affront to the feminist movement and is a plausable explination as to why more liberal cities rate lower....and i agree that free internet porn users may make up the bulk of porn consumers and this is not messurable...and they have no way of knowing what the political persausion is of the people who are viewing porn and so you liberals shouldnt get your hopes to high,..it could be that the majority of porn users lean heavily left.
.and lastly what are the exact numbers? a rating is meaningless if the actual numeric difference between one city over another is slight.
@!$%#, Vegas can't make #1 on that list either!
If you can't get some in Vegas there is something seriously wrong with you.
golliegeewillikers, Don't be let down by the stats, Las Vegas is way up there. It's just that why watch on cable what you can go out an experience live outside of Clark County! You know,what happens in Vegas...etc. Those stats never hit the poles and for good reason,afterall this is Las Vegas,not a $hithole like Rio!
Hmmm.... the most porn-obsessed? Which city in America has the most middle-schools?
Or the city with the highest amount of adult children living in basements
now THAT'S funny!
Is anyone really surprised?
Red States are the states with the most; porn,welfare and racism. They bang their Bibles as they bang their sister while watching an X-rated video. Yeah they're"good" Christians!
Gee. It seems like I should get along with them better than I do. We have so much in common, especially banging their sister.
You are one sick puppy. Go give Oblunder a kiss.
How do you circumcise a Red Stater?
Kick his sister in the mouth.
Ok, as soon as you go give a huge, wet sloppy kiss smack-dab on Gingrich's browneye.
Urban CowGirl and Quackhead, Here's one for you, how does you guys mom know when your sister has her"time of the month"? ..It's when she says,"boy, your d--- sure tastes funny"! Haw Haw Haw,but hey now to you pecker wood's that's probably an old one,dang but it's still funny! You dimwit son's of a--------
we don callit floriduh for nuttin!
Aha. Bunch of pedos down there around Disney World.
Low information voters, now we know how to keep you off the poles and out of the polls. The political campaigns ads cause the voters to seek alternate entertainment. Vote for the party, party, party of your choice, but never at the voting booth.
I sure going to be sorry I said that.
What the hell does Disney have to do with it? Just say Orlando, Disney isn't even in Orlando.
Orlando was just a gas station and a post office and a trailer park until DisneyWorld was built.
Children and porn don't mix. Get it?
Mari: rerere is right. Disney World is in Kissimmee, not Orlando.
Disney only comes up because the reporter doesn't have any idea what else is in Orlando, or that Disney World is NOT in Orlando, just close by. I would probably have guessed Las Vegas or Salt Lake City, but I guess they're only measuring 'real' porn and not the soft porn Las Vegas sells as a 'show'.
I thought Tampa would be higher on the list..you can spit and hit 3 strip bars and a pawn shop...a disgusting dirty under the collar town...born and raised there, but haven't been back in over 10 years.
I hear you, I have lived in Tampa all my life and on the way to school each morning I remember seeing at least 10 strip bars a day to and from school, it is really horrible, cannot wait until I leave for college in a few months
I love living in South Florida. I love my pool and the warm temps.
People feel sexual here? That's a bad thing? People who don't like sex, don't need to do it. People who don't like porn don't need to look at it.
ur pool is full of seeman.
If you don't get this Facebook thing off of here, I will never come back to MSNBC.
Better just stop using the Internet then.
Find me one major site out there that doesn't align itself with facebook, twitter and any other social media site.
Either ignore it, or hit the power switch.
Well, wildcat... Orlando and Tampa are both in Central Florida. SoFla is like 400 miles South. Now, what I find weird is that instead of mentioning Disney (which is in Kissimmee by the way) they didn't mention Universal Studios (which is actually in Orlando). Or is it because Universal Studios and MSNBC belong to the same parent company (NBC Universal/Comcast) and they didn't want to give them a bad publicity?
No, Disney World is not in Kissimmee. It's in Lake Buena Vista, an Orlando suburb. It's pretty common for places in suburbs to be described as being in the larger city. No one says "I'm leaving Orlando to visit Lake Buena Vista." It's still basically Orlando. Universal Studios is technically in unincorporated Orange County, anyway.
It's all the grey hairs in Florida looking to get pumped for action!! <lol>
North Carolina - the state that has a vote to add to their constitution to not reconize same sex or ANY partner type union? Dayum!!!!! Funny!
Kevin... We in North Carolina like our porn like we like our marriages. One man & one woman.
Wow, I didn't read the Men's Health article, but this one stretches the imagination. The headlines makes you think there's some connection between the porn industry and Disney...but in reality, the ranking is based on how many videos were watched, purchased and downloaded. Nothing about the number of strip clubs, hookers or nothing at all really about Snow White and Cinderella mixing it up. It's based solely on the number of videos a tourist state has.
Guess I don't need that cold shower after all.
The byline is sort of wrong. "When it comes to porn, there's nothing Mickey Mouse about the hometown of Disney World."
And I am SURE, if Orlando is the highest in the ranking, that there is a video tape out there, somewhere, where Mickey is going "haha" for all the wrong reasons.
It's probably because there are so many " High" "Ho's " around Disney !
That was really reaching, but chuckle chuckle anyway.
Funny thing is that Disney World is not in Orlando, it's in Kissimmee. Universal Studios is in Orlando. And guess who owns it????
Let me stand corrected, Disney World is 21 miles South of Orlando, within two counties (Orange and Osceola). The City is Lake Buena Vista, not Kissimmee (even though is closer to Kissimmee than Orlando)...
Is it coincidence or something else that 8 of these states are RED states which may very well mean that they're populated by a majority of residents who are so-called "family value" oriented individuals. A stretch? I don't think so.
The articial is about cities not states, you should want to know how many of these cities have democrap mayors?
And a great big thanks to Viagra!
In all fairness, they probably shouldn't use Cinemax subscribers in their listings. A lot of people get it bundled with HBO and don't really have the option. Not saying Florida isn't horny, just saying for a more accurate analysis, you might want to just stick to porn itself. Also, for the streaming, are they saying it's streamed content or where there are mirror locations? Again, just asking...
it's the most porn obsessed because it is the most sexually repressed, and when you consider the demographics, says a lot about people who say they are 'conservative', 'anti-gay' and 'pro family'. It's just when the missus is out shopping for the new church outfit, dad is home doing you know what and wants to boink everything that moves.
Let's face it - we all like porn. It's just that most of us are not willing to admit it. Let me be the first: I like porn. You can do it too. Let's hear you admit it too. IT'S ALRIGHT!
Ha! I thought I'd be the guy to point out the "Red State" majority here. Not so. Thanks everyone for quickly realizing the obvious! Kind of fits right in with South Carolina's men's room toe-tapping politician and the other "Game Cock" governor with the Argentine flag hanging over his bed!
I don't believe SC is on that list?
Actually the Toe tapping politician of restroom fame was from Idaho, just saying. Still a state as Red as Red Gets.
I'm surprised Salt Lake City was high on the list. Those mormons are crazy wild.
I'm surprised that (fill in the blank) likes porn. This country spends more on porn than all American pastimes combined - baseball, football, NASCAR . . . I forget how many Billions that is, but there is no place in this country where porn hasn't it ingrained itself into the national psyche. I wouldn't want to live in a state or community where porn is banned and unavailable. Nor would I want to live in a place where alchohol was banned either. I am an engineer and once was offered an opportunity to live and work in Saudia Arabia and I turned down the offer when I was told those things were banned. I was told that being caught with either would result in my being publicly flogged and there wasn't a thing my employer could do to stop it.
Orlando...I wonder if it spikes during the annual Ligonier Christian revival conferences.