Peer reviewed scientific journals report:
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. […]
States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement “I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage,” bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behaviour.”
sources: New Scientist Journal of Economical Perspectives
Results are from a study of “anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment “. Seem to confirm that people with self-repressive values and religion are hipocritical. The topic fits with human stupidity: if we assume that conservative and religious people do not lie on purpose, it shows self deception. They really believe in what they say but they act differently.
Similar results can be found in adolescent pregnancy and in sexually transmitted diseases. Studies there showed that teens with abstinence vows had less sex, but due to their unpreparedness and lack of education had just as much STD and adolescent pregnancy as their much more sexually active peers. Sarah Palin’s daughter would be a prime example.
