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Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn (lawsuit.org)

submitted 4 days ago by mudkip to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Article says there are more searches for trans-related keywords in GOP areas. However it doesn't say anything about trans porn vs cis porn. It wouldn't surprise me if conservative areas have more searches for porn in general, so all the numbers are higher. Anyway the article uses a lot of statistical jargon without seeming to check this basic issue. FAIL.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah that is the case. Utah has the highest porn consumption per capita, I recall.

The more anti-porn a society is, the more they secretly consume porn.

I have noticed that there is still a huge anti-porn sentiment here as well, that of course, narrowly focuses on porn addiction and extreme genres of pron and generalizes those things as something everyone who watches porn is or must become, rather than acknowledging most porn consumption is limited/casual and porn has a ton of genres and varieties and flavors.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I swear Pornhub has released a similar report in the past that did check out the same way. And the same with gay porn.

[–] safesyrup@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah, it's just correlation, which does not mean it's true, the reason could be a different one

[–] night_petal@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

It doesn't say whether VPN exits are counted either.

[–] SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, and if it did, I feel like it's their vigilante fantasy scour. Not genuine crank material. Either way, unhealthy obsession.