The Smuttiest Cities In America

According to TIME:

The intrepid researchers at Men’s Health took to the Internet for their research, adding up the number of DVDs purchased, rented, or streamed (courtesy AdultDVDEmpire.com); adult entertainment stores per city (StorErotica.net); rate of porn searches (Google Insights); and percentage of Cinemax-subscribing households (SimplyMap) to get an overall picture of municipal smuttiness. They then collated the information and came up with a list of 100 cities that have some ‘splainin to do.

Their top ten:

1. Orlando, Fla.
2. Las Vegas, Nev.
3. Wilmington, Del.
4. Raleigh, N.C.
5. Charlotte, N.C.
6.
Minneapolis, Minn.
7. Atlanta, Ga.
8. Tampa, Fla.
9. Anchorage, Ak.
10.
Austin, Tex.

The survey was published in May but just came to the attention of the North Carolina-based Christian Action League, who is horrified by their home state’s high ranking.

Pornography is not a harmless form of entertainment. It conditions people to deviancy, providing malignant fantasy material that is often acted out in real life. Few things do more to debase and dehumanize women. In many cases, it presents a message that pain and humiliation are what women want, thus causing some men to be less inhibited against unwanted aggressive sexual behavior and even rape. It reduces the most sacred act of intimacy between a man and a woman to a cheap thrill to be bought and sold in a marketplace of voyeurism.

I’m not surprised to see my hometown of Orlando, where titty bars are as common as Taco Bells, leading the list. New York City didn’t even make the Top 100.