Porn, Politics, and Religion: A Simple Theory
By Daniel Miessler on February 28th, 2009: Tagged as Culture | Psychology | Religion
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Recent analysis of online porn subscriptions has revealed that the most conservative states are the biggest porn consumers, and the more liberal states are less so.
Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year’s presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama
8 out of 10. That’s awesome.
And there’s a simple reason for this: conservatism is often linked to strong religion, and religion suppresses, and therefore maligns, natural human desires. To put it simply, much of the porn content out there is custom-made to fill the holes that religion created in human sexuality.
If you view sex as normal and healthy (like most liberals) then a lot of the porn out there simply doesn’t resonate with you. It’s downright uninteresting (or lame). But if you think it’s all filthy and evil then you end up with a set of perversions that require an outlet. This also explains why priests and pastors have so much trouble with sexual misconduct. ::
