caa a22 4500 606230815 CHVBK 20210128101216.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0361-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0361-8 Do American States with More Religious or Conservative Populations Search More for Sexual Content on Google? [Elektronische Daten] [Cara MacInnis, Gordon Hodson] In America, religiosity and conservatism are generally associated with opposition to non-traditional sexual behavior, but prominent political scandals and recent research suggest a paradoxical private attraction to sexual content on the political and religious right. We examined associations between state-level religiosity/conservatism and anonymized interest in searching for sexual content online using Google Trends (which calculates within-state search volumes for search terms). Across two separate years, and controlling for demographic variables, we observed moderate-to-large positive associations between: (1) greater proportions of state-level religiosity and general web searching for sexual content and (2) greater proportions of state-level conservatism and image-specific searching for sex. These findings were interpreted in terms of the paradoxical hypothesis that a greater preponderance of right-leaning ideologies is associated with greater preoccupation with sexual content in private internet activity. Alternative explanations (e.g., that opposition to non-traditional sex in right-leaning states leads liberals to rely on private internet sexual activity) are discussed, as are limitations to inference posed by aggregate data more generally. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Religiosity nationallicence Conservatism nationallicence Internet searching nationallicence Sex nationallicence Sexual imagery nationallicence MacInnis Cara Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada aut Hodson Gordon Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/1(2015-01-01), 137-147 0004-0002 44:1<137 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0361-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0361-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacInnis Cara Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hodson Gordon Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/1(2015-01-01), 137-147 0004-0002 44:1<137 2015 44 10508