• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Article says there are more searches for trans-related keywords in GOP areas. However it doesn’t say anything about trans porn searches vs cis porn searches. 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.

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      10 days ago

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

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      10 days ago

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

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      9 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.