By the end of 2015, that number is likely to go to 50. Same-sex marriages are now legal in 36 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The first thing I notice here is that the map is (happily) out-of-date. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture a textbook about gender and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. Or, it may be part of that notorious “culture war,” a politics that supposedly distracts poor and working class people from their own economic interests by getting them to focus on so-called social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.Īs fun as it is to snicker at the fact that the part of the country that claims a moral high ground on homosexuality is over-represented in pursuing it (at least digitally), there’s also probably some pretty interesting social/psychology sociology here.Ĭross-posted at Pacific Standard. They may be doing so as a simple strategy. Or, it may be that politicians in Southern states stoke anti-gay attitudes in order to win elections. This is consistent with data showing, for example, that white racial resentment is higher in counties with larger populations of black folk.ģ.
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This is one version of the contact hypothesis: the presence and visibility of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people threatens the norm of heterosexuality, increasing opposition. Another possibility is that both homosexual inclinations and anti-gay hatred are high in Southern states, but not in the same people. There’s data that backs this up in at least some cases.Ģ.
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So, out of fear of exposure, or fear of their own feelings, they are vocally anti-LGBT rights. This is the idea that some people express homophobic attitudes because they fear being non-heterosexual themselves.
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There is the (barely) repressed homosexuality theory, of course. I can think of at least three theories:ġ. On average, gay porn is more heavily consumed in states where same-sex marriage is legal than in states where it’s illegal, but every single state in the South has a gay porn use that exceeds the average in states with same-sex marriage.įor me, this raises questions about what’s driving sentiment against same-sex marriage and porn use and if and why it’s related. According to data released by Pornhub, 5.6% of porn users in Mississippi seek out gay porn, compared to 2.8% in North Dakota.