Google: Louisville, KY Is The Most Obscene City In The U.S.
The idea: If Google proves that local residents search for "sex" more than they do for, well, anything else, then the defense can argue that Internet pornographers are just satisfying a local need, not corrupting innocent minds. We like this idea, though we're dubious that the courts are going to go for it.
But suppose they do? Where then, according to Google, does an obscenity defendant stand the best chances? In other words: What city's residents are most interested in looking up dirty stuff on the Web?
Google Trends says: Louisville, Kentucky.
We know! We were surprised, too -- almost as surprised as we were to see neither New York City or San Francisco in our top 10. The full list:
The 10 American Cities Most Likely To Search For Obscene Material
- Louisville, KY
- Rochester, NY
- Philadelphia, PA
- Newark, NJ
- Los Angeles, CA
- Irvine, CA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Las Vegas, NV
- Albany, NY
- Orlando, FL
Here's how we got there: We used George Carlin's (R.I.P.) "Seven Dirty Words" as obscenity proxies, and looked up each of them on Google Trends. We restricted the results to the United States, and noted the top 10 cities querying each of the seven words. Top scores went to cities that showed up on multiple lists; to break ties, we assigned weight values depending on a city's rank on individual lists. Note that Google weights its own results to account for population: The cities listed above showed the greatest percentage of searchers looking for dirty words, not the greatest number of people. Want to see the raw data and our math? Click here.
Again, we're dubious that the courts are going to allow Google to stand in as an obscenity barometer anytime soon. But we'll be keeping an eye on the Pensacola case. And if this does work, we expect to see a flood of Web porn companies heading for the Kentucky border.
See Also: Do The Good People Of Florida Think Your Website Is Obscene? You Better Hope Not.
Louisville, KY
nude teens - Rank #3
underage teens - Rank #1
sex with animals - Rank #3
old women naked - Rank #1
sex with dead people - Rank #2
These people are really on the edge!
The Ivy Leaguer? Well Philadelphia, home of U Penn, came in at #3.
Are their ambulance chasing days behind them, no viagra causing delusions? They can always create a support group, "porn watch" to assist with their courtroom antics.
It matters little to me where the vile things mentioned are being searched. Truly, if it isn't one vice, it's another. We all are human and all suffer from the great human condition: our fallen nature. Certainly, one could say that our tastes are descending into more and more base obscenity as our culture declines.
What is most troubling is the relativistic nature of this study. We MUST hold to some objective standard or else only "might makes right." If a court determines that one's actions are within the realm of normalcy given the predilections of local society, it will matter little whether it is legal, or not.
I am libertarian at heart...but even I know that there must be law and justice and FOR there to be law and justice, there must be absolutes. Otherwise, it's all shifting sand based on morphing legal precedent. Things which once were unheard of will, according to legal/social "evolution," be common.
Question is: who decides what Truth IS?
A/ The second coming.
Two/ Full of self importance.
C/ Deluded.
4/ Funny.
IV/ Sad.
Sex/ A frequent attendee of the non compos mentis toppers char shindig.
Or - All of the above and as such actively engaged in a pious cult.
;)
First, it was more of a rhetorical question.
Second, it is: "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6, NIV.
But, He did also declare Himself to be the light of the world, so, your point is valid. :o)
Zax-
Sidd was certainly espousing his view of reality. But, is that any different than your own? This is not relativism but recognition. There must be an absolute, and one overarching truth, but belittling it only defeats your purpose and degrades the discourse. Try again...this time being intellectually honest about your bias, like the rest of us.
This approach is based more on their Google ranking as opposed to how many of the dirty words they search for.
That was done for each search term, and then totaled for each city. The top 10 was slightly different:
1 Louisville, KY, USA
2 Rochester, NY, USA
3 Philadelphia, PA, USA
4 Irvine, CA, USA
5 Newark, NJ, USA
6 Las Vegas, NV, USA
7 Pittsburgh, PA, USA
8 Albany, NY, USA
9 Portland, OR, USA
10 Richardson, TX, USA
11 Boston, MA, USA
12 Orlando, FL, USA
13 New York, NY, USA
14 Tampa, FL, USA
15 Los Angeles, CA, USA
16 Elmhurst, IL, USA
16 Meriden, CT, USA
17 Providence, RI, USA
18 Salt Lake City, UT, USA
19 St Louis, MO, USA
20 San Antonio, TX,
21 Norfolk, VA, USA
21 Oklahoma City, OK, USA
21 Sacramento, CA, USA
22 Chicago, IL, USA
23 Seattle, WA, USA
Maybe you're just a prejudiced bigot who likes to defame whole groups of people based on your own ignorant biases?
Just a thought.
Oh yeah, bless your heart.
You just never know how we'll take to strangers.
i'm pretty sure there are unfriendly, superficial, passive-aggressive people all over the place, not just here in kentucky. we also have some nice people.
nice people, mean people everywhere. it's intellectually unsophisticated to over-generalize. but i don't blame your simplicity on your geographical location :-)
yee haw!
I was recently in Louisville, where I was told by a resident it was the northernmost Southern city I could find. And the people there were really nice.
More important: Did it occur to the person who put this survey together that Carlin's recent death might do something to skew the statistics JUST A LITTLE BIT? Perhaps the people Googling Carlin's "seven dirty words" had just heard about them in his obituary and were curious. Or just wanted to relive their youths. Or couldn't remember what the words were to tell their kids.
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