AdamSmith Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Surprise, surprise. Bible belt states lead the US in gay pornography searches between 2004 and 2011 Oscar Loves Life A secularist, Muslim-born scientist's perspective on religion, hypocrisy, conflict, sexuality and society The states of the Bible belt, America's conservative corridor, lead the country in searching Google for homosexual online media content between 2004 and 2011. I applied Google Insights for Search to the term gay porn and filtered the results to the "Online Media" category. The specific link to the search I performed can be located through this link. The results are normalized by Google such that the scaled numbers can be compared with each other. The top 10 states that lead the United States searching for gay porn are Mississippi, Florida, West Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio and New York. The results also include a map showing the relative scaling for search volume across the US. Search volume index for gay pornography searches Since a few of the states in the top 10 are Bible belt states, I wanted to graph the search volume index of gay porn as a function of religiosity for people from those states. I included data from a recent Gallup Poll that surveyed Americans about how important religion was to their lives. I plotted the results of this poll as a function of the number of searches for the word 'Bible' in each of the 51 states, just to confirm the that Google searches do indeed reflect the opinions and interests of the people within their states. To no surprise, as the graph below shows, there is terrific correlation between the Gallup Poll on religion and the relative number of Google searches for the word "Bible". Utah comes out as an anomaly because of the large Mormon population who are not as interested in searching for the word "Bible". For Utah "LDL" was more searched religious term.Next, I plotted the Gallup Poll as a function of Google search volume index for "gay porn" and plotted the results below. The trend is not perfect, and it is not meant to be. But it does have some interesting features. The results clearly show that the most religious state, Mississippi, also leads the country in gay porn searches. Several other religious states are also surprisingly at the top of the list. Those were the results and in my opinion, this data shows that hypocrisy is quite prevalent in the Bible belt. People may be conservative or they may be pretending to be conservative, but there is certainly a lot more homosexuality around than they are led to believe.It is also possible that homosexuals in these states are oppressed and are reluctant to come out of the closet and fuel their frustrations through openly dating. They may be a lot more isolated and alone than gays in California, for example, which is a much more liberal state. As a result, they turn to the Internet to sexually satisfy themselves.The table below shows the raw data. Data for the Google searches for gay porn has been extracted from the Google Insights for Research website which can be accessed through this link. Similarly, the data for the "bible" Google searches can be accessed through this link. The data for the importance of religion for the states comes from a recent Gallup Poll. State / Google searches for gay porn / Google searches for "bible" / Religion is important (%) Mississippi 100 93 85 Alabama 78 100 82 South Carolina 79 85 80 Tennessee 77 93 79 Arkansas 88 91 78 Louisiana 90 63 78 Georgia 82 77 76 North Carolina 81 76 76 Oklahoma 79 79 75 Texas 93 77 74 Kentucky 90 72 74 West Virginia 89 67 71 Kansas 75 60 70 Utah 61 24 69 Indiana 75 66 68 Missouri 80 64 68 Virginia 64 62 68 South Dakota 63 60 68 North Dakota 59 48 68 Nebraska 68 51 67 New Mexico 91 47 66 Florida 100 60 65 Ohio 85 57 65 Maryland 59 50 65 Pennsylvania 80 48 65 Michigan 78 58 64 Iowa 63 50 64 Illinois 76 49 64 Minnesota 58 48 64 Arizona 80 45 61 Idaho 58 44 61 Wisconsin 65 43 61 Delaware 65 40 61 District of Columbia 56 40 61 New Jersey 77 34 60 Wyoming 66 49 58 California 75 48 57 Colorado 78 44 57 Hawaii 76 40 57 Montana 68 50 56 New York 83 38 56 Connecticut 66 28 55 Nevada 88 33 54 Oregon 57 46 53 Rhode Island 85 25 53 Washington 67 46 52 Alaska 57 49 51 Maine 78 29 48 Massachusetts 71 25 48 New Hampshire 66 28 46 Vermont 74 24 42 http://oscarloveslife.blogspot.com/2011/12/bible-belt-states-lead-us-in-gay.html TotallyOz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotallyOz Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Not surprising at all to me. AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TampaYankee Posted December 17, 2013 Members Share Posted December 17, 2013 Is there any surprise in this. The devil always goes after the devout. The fall is so much the sweeter. Or put more sociologically, the repressed always have more furtive interest in subjects that they are denied by convention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
