Well, as an observer and commenter on human behavior, you couldn't ask for more than this!
ABC News conducted a nation-wide survey and published the results in a piece called: "Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers"
A new nationwide study of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider found that states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," says Benjamin Edelman of the Harvard Business School.
But we all know this intuitively, don't we, even though it's just great to see it presented academically?
Shakespeare was onto it centuries ago when he wrote about protesting too much as a cover-up for bad behavior.
Freud described the "reaction formation" almost a century ago as a defense mechanism in which unacceptable impulses are masked by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency.
"Where reaction-formation takes place, it is usually assumed that the original, rejected impulse does not vanish, but persists, unconscious, in its original infantile form."
Yes, we certainly have seen a lot of persistent, infantile behavior from conservatives in recent years haven't we?
Beauty!
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