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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

The red state gay porn habit: Why conservative states like Mississippi and North Carolina lead the nation in same-sex porn consumption

Author:     Nico Lang
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Saturday, May 21, 2016 12:30 PM PDT
 Link: The red state gay porn habit: Why conservative states like Mississippi and North Carolina lead the nation in same-sex porn consumption
Stephan:   This is a report on hypocrisy and the difference between what is attested and what is real. It's weird, trends rise and fall like an ocean wave. Right now the frequency and number of stories being published about Theocratic Rightist sexual dysfunction is sharply on the rise. However, we don't really know the absolute increase, because part of this is probably just the increase in dataflow on the net. Things which would have remained local are now available planetary. But, in any case, we are being told something about our culture to which we need to listen.  
Credit: Credit: AP//Dieu Nalio Chery/benkrut/iStock/Photo montage by Salon

Credit: AP//Dieu Nalio Chery/benkrut/iStock/Photo montage by Salon

Mississippi and North Carolina recently passed some of the harshest laws in the nation targeting the LGBT community. As statistics from PornHub show, congressmen might be legislating against queer and trans people, but their constituencies sure do love to watch them have sex. The Daily Dot reports that Mississippi ranked third (behind Washington, D.C., and New York) in a recent PornHub survey on the amount of porn consumed by state. The Magnolia State, in particular, shows a disproportionate preference for black gay porn, while the South boasted three of the top five states with the highest rate of gay porn viewership.

In March, North Carolina made national headlines when its state government called an “emergency session” of congress to push through a law that struck down local nondiscrimination laws across the state. In so doing, that legislation, known as House Bill 2, forced transgender people to use the public restroom that corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth, rather […]

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