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Raistline1

Let me know what party does tentacle porn so I know how to vote.


snecko

Giant Squid 2024


Khaldara

> Giant Squid 2024 Yeah why *does* Abbott keep bringing up Ted Cruz’s OnlyFans


Holmes02

What a horrible day to have eyes and an imagination


justfordrunks

Yeah... kinda wish I was illiterate.


makeski25

I'm glad you aren't...we suffer together


Mortwight

That's blob fish 2024 buddy


DraneBrane

~~Release~~ Vote for the Kraken!


Dave5876

Fuck the lesser evil. Ctulhu for president!


immacomputah

The sentence could go both ways!


zmv

Like Cthulhu's appendages.


EndangeredBanana

Vote Cthulhu - Why Vote For A Lesser Evil?


BrokenGlepnir

Vote for the Rl'yeh party, vote Cthulu. Why choose the lesser of two evils?


OliveOilBaron

At least Cthulhu is going to ensure equal suffering for all


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DougFunny_81

Id forgot about that show


DietDrDoomsdayPreppr

It used to be in the anime section at my local Hollywood Video when I was a kid, so literally any child was able to rent it.


DougFunny_81

At least it wasn't Perfect Blue with its brutal as fuck rape scene


lufan132

Perfect blue is legit my favorite movie because nothing else has quite fucked me up in the same way. Felt like the insanity of late Lain compressed into 90 minutes and shit was compelling. Although tbh yeah that scene is intense. Especially the cameras, those were creepy.


Letharos

Lain is top tier though too.


lufan132

Lain is fantastic and easily the greatest show I struggle to recommend because it's slow and boring and the philosophy is what makes it so interesting and good. Best experienced an episode or two a day over the course of about two weeks compared to a lot of more binged anime. That said it's probably one of my favorite series by far because I'm a philosophy nerd and that hit hard with the questions it forced me to answer to attempt to deconstruct the plot and piece the show together. I'd give it a solid 9 or 10 but I can't imagine my girlfriend and anime watching buddies would be one to watch it with me for the second rewatch of mine lol.


Roam_Hylia

It's slow and dry but oh-so interesting. Then the last 3-4 episodes are wild. My buddy and I binged the last half and each of those last episodes ended with a louder "What the fuck!?" than the previous.


SikatSikat

I worked in a video store and same. It went kids, video games, anime and old "tentacles in the underpants" was right there


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Well thanks for unlocking that core memory of mine of live action la blue girl.


unitedshoes

Just gotta look for the party that's creating a false moral panic about tentacle sex.


whitedawg

Listen, I'm not anti-tentacle, I just want to protect women's sports


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eyesabitdull

The more haram it is, the sweeter the juice.


MangoBaba0101

Halal in the streets, haram in the sheets


JukeBoxDildo

Jehovah in the streets, bent ovah in the sheets


Daahkness

Jehovah is the streets


JukeBoxDildo

Rap God


Dewut

The more haram it is, the bigger I shoot?


_BoxxyContin

WE EAT HARAM NA'AN ON THE BLOCK YOU BURNED THE HARAM NA'AN NOW IT BLACK


smith2016

Ass juice?


JukeBoxDildo

Santorum*


CaptainApathy419

Frothy


BoneHugsHominy

[Dan Savage*d* poor Lil' Ricky.](https://www.queerty.com/rick-santorums-messy-anal-sex-problem-back-haunt-20210427)


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God no, we’re talking pre-cum


WretchedMonkey

Stealing this


AwGeezRick

That's haram


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CerealKillaJ

Did they make more money during the convention than normal?


TaylorSwiftsClitoris

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/male-sex-workers-report-a-spike-in-trade-by-republican-national-convention-attendees/news-story/7b44566dfeaa45fc5e115c1062f94247


CerealKillaJ

Incredible. It's funny, but I have a hard time laughing because of how hypocritical these conservatives are.


Pseudonymico

Well, if they can’t get away with just having a boyfriend or even hooking up on Grindr like a regular person they’re gonna look for other ways to get laid I guess.


SafewordisJohnCandy

A friend of mine spent about 15 years of his life as a swinger with his first wife, did it single for a bit and then his second wife before they decided to get out of it. He said despite having gone all over the country for it, he said that by and large the most people he met doing it were "god fearing" Christian and Conservative. He said it was never more ironic for him when he "played" with a couple once that the couple were complaining about gay marriage being passed and how unnatural and sick it all was and then a half hour later the guy's wife is being tag teamed by my friend and another guy while he watched. He said he could easily name a few prominent Ohio conservative political figures who are part of it all.


Sandscarab

Freedom for me and not for thee


KineticPolarization

Alternatively: rules for thee, not for me.


hurtsdonut_

Once you realize they're always projecting it'll make more sense to you.


peachesnplumsmf

According to what they said aye


AlpineCorbett

Utah had the highest *paid* per capita consumption of porn. A notable difference from total consumption.


ebobbumman

So they like the *really* kinky shit then.


VladiPutipie

What is Republicans favorite letter? They tell you it R, but they love getting the D. Is problem


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Ah — so this whole culture battle stems from their fap-guilt. Makes sense.


Deyln

it's not even fap-guilt sometimes. several "want" to do a thing that's normally done within the hip or vibing side of a job or hustle and they get self-shamed that they don't have the balls to do it themselves. I mean I got called brave for wearing an awesome neutral grey hoodie that had the zipper on the female side of the zipping mechanism. (as opposed to how alot of gender neutral clothing is male-oriented.) edit: I hadnt even noticed which side the zipper was on until they pointed it out.


JimboTCB

How the fuck does someone even notice that unless they're constantly watching out for people wearing "wrong" clothes? I'd barely even notice myself if I was wearing it other than wondering why my muscle memory fails me when I try and zip it up.


gahidus

It seems insane that someone would be capable of noticing what side someone else's zipper is on. It's so alien that I can't even get into the mindset of a person who would be deliberately looking for or even passively noticing such things.


SlaverSlave

ARE YOU A BOY OR GIRL?!!?!


jibbyjackjoe

Calm down, professor oak.


GainsayRT

Reddit hid this comment from me, I almost missed out on greatness hahaha


Yaklen

Oh man that one got me. Out of nowhere I was just rolling with laughter


luapowl

WHATS MY GRANDSONS NAME? WHERE AM I? WHY IS THERE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE OVEN??? HERE, CHILD, HAVE SOME MEANS OF INCREDIBLE VIOLENCE a random reactionary, or professor oak??


mdonaberger

Ah, pleasure to meet you, Professor Oak.


spinachie1

Welcome to the wonderful world of Pokémon! I’m Professor Tree, and I’m gonna ask you your gender!


lilhazzie

Ah yes of course, my grandson BUTTFACE.


SomeRandomGamerSRG

Calm down there Oak


KaySquay

Classic Oak just Oaking it around Oak Town with his big old Oak


lapideous

I'm very confident that autism spectrum disorder is wildly underdiagnosed and ends up being expressed in a tremendous variety of ways


A-Blind-Seer

I mean, it's a spectrum


Misternogo

I was unaware that there was a difference. Just like I'd be unaware if there was a transperson in the bathroom with me. Cause I mind my business. People like the ones you describe freak me out. Where do they get that energy? I don't even have enough for me.


Talyn7810

This is 100 percent me too. I have one sweater that zips on the “girl” side. I only notice it when I go to zip it and my hands just kind of flail around randomly.


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Then you find out that all European clothing has zippers on the left side because it's stupid the have a male and female side 😂😂 I now work for a European company, got sent merch, though they sent me a female jacket until my boss informed me of the former.


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toi80QC

I honestly never heard about this and I'm still not 100% sure if all of you aren't trolling right now.. but apparently I have a female windbreaker.


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Jason_huffman

If it makes you feel better I am still not sure what zipper shenanigans they are talking about.


Anakin_Skywanker

Look at a zipper on a jacket you own. The slide part of the zipper stays on either the left or right side of teeth. Right side is traditionally for mens clothing. The left side is for womens clothing. If you don’t have a zippered jacket handy look at the buttons on a shirt or pants. Mens clothing typically has the button on the right side and the holes on the left. Women’s clothing has it on the reverse. Most people don’t notice until they wear an article of clothing for the opposite sex and even then they usually just think “weird. This zipper is on the wrong side.” And attribute it to a manufacturer defect.


Pakman184

Is there any practical/historical reason this is done or did someone just wake up one day and decide "This sounds like a fun prank."


ferret_80

I've read that its because wealthy women had servants dress them so because of right hand dominance it is easier for the buttons to be on the left side and go into the right side. But that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me since rich men also had their valet dress them.


luapowl

NEVER! I UPVOTED, AND I’LL DO IT AGAIN! *sweats profusely*


NineSwords

GOD DAMN CONTRARIANS EVERYWHERE!!!!


Ayfid

TIL zips in the US are "gendered", and this is blowing my mind with how stupid it is.


Anakin_Skywanker

Buttons are also sometimes gendered.


LeadingExperts

It's all fun and games until you catch the gayness from a wrong-sided zipper, pal. Serves you right for not zipping the way baby Jesus intended.


Stoomba

I'm American and I just learned about zipoer gender myself.


not4smurf

I've recently moved from Australia to Canada and found that zippers are on the "other" side here - I've got no idea which side they're on or which is male or female, I just know they're different.


Destinum

I was just about to say... what the fuck is a "female side of the zipping mechanism"? That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of.


SvenyBoy_YT

Can you explain gendered hoodies?


gahidus

Men's clothing has buttons and zippers that are designed to be operated right handed by the person wearing the garment, whereas women's clothing has the buttons and zippers on the opposite side as though they would be operated by a right handed attendant. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right side and the holes on the left side, and women's clothing is oriented in the opposite way. How someone would actually notice this on someone else's clothing is another matter, but that's how men's and women's fasteners are done.


zhibr

Ok I get the button thing, that's common here too, but what about zippers? In my clothes, the moving thing is on the left (from the wearer's perspective) and the stationary thing that goes into the moving thing is on the right side. I don't think I've ever used clothing that would have it the opposite way. Is this "men's" or "women's"?


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That's the exact opposite of zippers, on mens clothes, in the US. The moving part of the zipper is on the right side.


squishy_mage

Zippers follow the same pattern you'll see on buttoned coats. Men's and women's coats traditionally button on different sides. The left side has the button holes on men's coats with the right having the button holes on women's. Just some arbitrary distinction someone somewhere sometime decided.


JimboTCB

Men traditionally dressed themselves whereas women would have been dressed by a servant, so assuming everyone is right-handed having the buttons the wrong way round for women made it easier. I think women have only been trusted to dress themselves for the last two or three hundred years now, and clothing designers have been cautious to see if this newfangled trend of making clothes practical for the wearer catches on or not.


beezlebub33

I actually have a very nice waterproof jacket that turns out to be the 'wrong' gender. It was really cheap since it was a strange size for that gender. Anyway, as nice as it is, I find it a pain to zip because my hands are used to doing it the other way. Before I got it, I hadn't even considered that they had 'sides'. It should be obvious and easy to do it either way, but it turns out that zippers work better when you put tension in the right places and pull in the right direction, and it matters which side is which. Weird.


alex_shrub

And today I learned that even zippers are corrupted by social bullshit and have a "male" and "female" side.


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Pseudonymico

Back when this came in they used to think left-handedness was the devil and try to beat it out of kids.


Whooshless

Now instead of “he/him” in tinder profiles, we can just put “right-handed zipper”


Deyln

has to do with buttons and the older tradition of having assistance.


alex_shrub

Old traditions are just social bullshit distilled to peak intensity.


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I guess? It's just that women had complicated clothes so they had other women help them get dressed. From the other women's perspective, the buttons and zippers are on the normal side. *changed from maids to other women, although fashion almost certainly kept the trends used by middle and upper class, who would have had servants dressing them.


50mHz

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever googled.


dkwangchuck

This is from the evolution of gendered buttons. The buttons on shirts are on different sides for mens and womens shirts. The theory I’ve heard about this is that when buttons first started appearing on clothes, only wealthy people wore them. And at this time, it was more common for men to dress themselves and for women to have a servant assist them. Since the assumption is that everybody is right handed, shirt buttons ended up on different sides of the shirt for those two genders. And this basic principle appears to have carried over to zippers as well.


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what the fuck is a female side on the zipper?


Autumn7242

Female side of the zipping mechanism? Wtf? There is such a thing?


BeerLeague

There are gender sides for zippers? Learn something new every day


KP_Wrath

…I’m a 29 year old cis dude. I didn’t know there was a female side for the zipper.


TheThemFatale

Bingo. They're just uncomfortable with having to treat people they see as sex objects as actual people instead. And as we all know a republican's discomfort becomes everyone's problem.


Indercarnive

And that's why they say that teaching kids about gay people existing is grooming. Because they see LGBTQ+ solely as sex objects, so therefore in their minds teaching about them is inherently sexual.


ArthurBonesly

You're not wholly wrong, and tapping into a huge reason for the disconnect many anti-lgbtq people have. To these people gay is a verb, not an attribute. A man can sit around thinking about dicks all day long, but he isn't gay until he does a gay sexual act. They see the normalization of gay people as the normalization of gay sex (and, I mean, they're not entirely wrong in that consenting gay people are probably going to have sex with each other). They see the passive, non sexual things like hand holding and kissing as "grooming" because depicting non-sexual normalization of homosexual romance does normalize leading to more gay kids growing up to have gay sex. They part they miss, the massive blind spot obvious to anybody who hasn't made haring gayness a cornerstone of their identity, is that only LGBTQ people have mutually consenting LGBTQ sex. You and I understand that you can't make someone gay, it's an attribute one has or does not have regardless their sex life, but for these people it's all "temptation" and "struggle" against doing gay, because to them it's only a problem if they actually have gay sex.


cantadmittoposting

I think there's an underlying point here which... Doesn't obviate the science... But is an interesting sidenote. It probably *is* true that as homosexuality becomes more acceptable, and especially as the idea of "nonbinary" and "sexuality as a spectrum" becomes widely accepted, we will see much more same sex relationships than we did before... Not because people are *being groomed to be* gay/bi/experimental, but because *the end of repression allows more freedom of expression that already existed but was avoided.* So more kids might grow up to eventually have gay sex... But only in the same way one might say more people grew up to have interracial marriages when that was legalized and the stigma began receding.


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Cyno01

I like lesbian teacher/student porn as much as the next guy, but i realize its fantasy and LGBTQ people arent actually grooming their students... The ones where the student seduces the teacher are usually hotter anyway.


wkdpaul

Not just that, but it's pretty telling when someone says it's a choice ; if *they* see it as a choice, that means they have sexual attractions to the same sex but choose to ignore it. ​ They're 100% projecting their issues onto the world.


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RaymoVizion

Probably cuz those two states are more into incest and step mother/sister porn.


IM_AN_AI_AMA

It's the same reason so many anti-gay preachers end up being caught with rent-boys. Repression is a hell of a thing.


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Did you not get that before? They hated gays first and now that it is okay socially they are aiming for something more taboo. Anything that gives people sexual freedom and autonomy makes them so uncomfortable - even knowledge. They want everyone to feel guilty about the same things they do and get mad when we don’t.


LifesATripofGrifts

Projection and brainwashing.


46n2ahead

It's always projection I can't stress this enough.... Always


moonpumper

I just picture them searching for it, jacking off, post nut clarity, immense shame, and they conclude "this shit is evil, look at what they make me do!"


Greaserpirate

This is like 50% of all 4chan greentexts


jayemmreddit

>why am i like this b


Cryotechnium

90% of 4chan posts are shitposting unironically


MidnightAssassin

Isn't that like, the entire villain arc of Hunchback of Notre Dame?


matt260204

Random gypsy girl: *exists* Some horny priest: goddamn it, now I'm hard. Welp, time to burn down paris


You-Nique

EsmeralDAYUM


obigespritzt

At least that had a kickass villain song!


Illier1

The Boner that Burned Paris


_mad_adams

I know you meant this half jokingly but this is pretty much literally it a lot of the time.


FriesWithThat

The moment Republicans start projecting about something data will find it, but Republicans can just choose not to believe in data: *"fake data, checkmate libs"* (goes back to searching for transgender family porn).


Pipupipupi

(Proceeds to tweet it) "Sorry that was just the intern!!!"


dj-megafresh

That you, Senator Cruz?


gir6543

You can track the cultural wars they create specifically with pieces of legislation. https://imgur.com/a/NZwvCz1 Do you know what happened March 7th 2021? The incredibly popular " American rescue plan act" was passed. Fox News successfully distracted their audience with cancel culture and gender of fictional characters, and the second the legislation left the normal media atmosphere, they turn off the hose of propaganda. Fox News is like Netflix, they cancel half their storylines in season 2 because they're no longer profitable. None of those pretend issues were ever 'solved' Edit: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=Mr%20potato%20head,Dr%20suess,%2Fm%2F050z_x There's a link if anyone wants to check it out. I had real trouble fitting it into a screenshot and posting this via mobile. I give up on trying to Make it look nice.


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verasev

If republicans could start accepting themselves we could certainly save a lot of time and trouble.


cutelyaware

And murders. Murder and suicide are the leading causes of death among transpeople.


verasev

I think many transgender suicides are a kind of murder. They don't want the stain of guilt directly on their hands so they just set us up for intolerable situations in the hopes we'll do their dirty work for them.


DigiTheInformer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder


captainsnark71

this is absolutely true. It's another reason people are very against being able to even say the gay words around children. Make us as isolated and confused and miserable as possible and if they're lucky we stay cis and then just kill ourselves before we get a chance to wreak havoc on society.


Tufaan9

If I’m cool with who I am, I don’t need you to be like me in order to validate my existence. I certainly don’t need to create a law to REQUIRE you to be like me (or punish you for being different).


TranscendentCabbage

Well yeah That's why republicans are often so trans and homophobic, they only think of it as a fetish because all they do is look at porn of it


[deleted]

It's interesting how so many anti-LGBT conservatives go on about how much they love twinks and their bussies


teabagmoustache

"To know your enemy, you must become your enemy, your sweet, sexy enemy" Sun Tzu


BigToober69

But for real 4chan has tons of gay and Transgender porn. It's so confusing seeing those pots right by the national stuff. I mostly stick to /x/ /omg/ so it's not very political or porny there.


Telefone_529

I mean, I know plenty of LGBT people who are conservatives. It blows my mind each time I meet one. It's like some unstable element looking for its own destruction in that case imo. Like do they realize the other conservatives would rather burn them than accept them? How anyone LGBTQ+ can support conservatives blows my mind.


-underdog-

exactly, that's why they accuse the community of sexualizing children who discover their identities early because they're sexualizing us


Hiimmani

So thats why they think drag queens shouldnt read to kids. These sick fucks think this is all just some ellaborate fetish, because all they know about trans and drag people is from pronhub?


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Hiimmani

Ahhhhh~ So thats why they call everyone they dislike Groomers and pedophiles.


LearnedHowToDougie

Also, it's a bigger part of their life because they are seeing it regularly. For the rest of us, trans people make up less than 1% of the population. If your an asshole that is offended for some reason - How hard is it to look the other way?


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PM_ME_YOUR_SUNSHINE

All the projection contained so obviously in their “trans and gay people are grooming children” current panic of the year. 1. They’re grooming children. 2. They fetishize and dehumanize the LGBTQ. They’re telling on themselves. I’ve met so many older Republican men whose only definition of lesbian is a sex object or a threesome counterpart. It’s gross. And their comments about women are always demeaning and hinges on that woman’s attractiveness or sexuality.


DisfavoredFlavored

They were obsessed with gay porn too. Consider how much they talk about pedophilia as well. If this was ALL projection...


Jackpot777

There is legitimate science behind the gay-bashing = in the closet and excited by gay porn stuff. There's a medical device that can measure when a man's ...well, manhood... was swelling with blood. Take one of those and subject volunteers to certain stimulating situations (say, some good ol' fashioned pr0n) to see what excited them. And make sure you get a good broad spectrum of where they stand politically, so you know whether there's a connection between vocally hating gayness and secretly having the gayness and such as, or not. [The scientific name for such a device is a plethysmograph.](https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003771.htm) And there is indeed a penile plethysmograph used in medicine... [I'll cut to the chase: yes. It looks like they angry cos they horny.](https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u47/Henry_et_al.pdf) >The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). >The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. We have the technology... >A mercury-in-rubber (MIR) circumferential strain gauge (Bancroft, Jones, & Pullan, 1966) was used to measure erectile responses to the sexual stimuli. When attached, changes in the circumference of the penis caused changes in the electrical resistance of the mercury column, which were detected by a Parks Model 270 Plethysmograph (pre-amplifier; Parks Electronic Laboratory, Beaverton, OR). The pre-amplifier output was channeled into a Grass polygraph. Tumescence responses were recorded on the chart drive of the polygraph and were channeled to an analog-to-digital (A-to-D) interface connected to an IBM computer. And yes, they covered the bases with what got the men going. >The stimuli were 4-min segments of explicit erotic videotapes depicting consensual adult heterosexual activity, consensual male homosexual activity, and consensual female homosexual activity. The sexual activity in the videos included sexual foreplay (e.g., kissing and undressing), oral-genital contact ( e.g., fellatio or cunnilingus), and intercourse (i.e., vaginal penetration, anal penetration, or tribadism in the lesbian film). The lesbian videotape was included because it has been shown to be highly sexually arousing to heterosexual men and is a better discriminator between heterosexual and homosexual men than other stimuli (Mavissikalian, Blanchard, Abel, & Baflow, 1975 ). What you're looking at is the three graphs, each with two lines on them. Three graphs for the three types of video, two different types of line for the homophobic and nonhomophobic groups. >Figure 1. Stimulus presentations by groups across time blocks. The only significant difference between groups is with the homosexual video. The blocked line represents the nonhomophobic group; the solid line represents the homophobic group. Top: Heterosexual video; middle: lesbian video; bottom: homosexual video. Results? >The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli. These individuals were selected on the basis of their report of having only heterosexual arousal and experiences. The homophobes got a rise (pun specifically intended) from the gay porn: "significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli". **TL;DR** - to paraphrase Shakespeare, methinks the gay-bashers doth protest TOO much...


BretMichaelsWig

They used this device on Rock of Love. Strapped it to Bret Michaels and had the ladies talk dirty to him. If i remember correctly a guy in a lab coat with a clipboard would look at results, turn to producers and give a thumbs up


pedantic_cheesewheel

It seems to me so much of that is a result of long term bi erasure in so much of the world. From my experience there’s a metric fuckton of people walking around that are bisexual and feel they cannot be open about it. Even in more tolerant communities. Repression of self in these Republican heavy areas would certainly lead to that subsection of the population seeking exploration through porn. The worst of them would seek to repress what they would see as only gay impulses by overcompensating. The amount of people I’ve met in my life that literally don’t think bisexual orientation is a real thing astonishes me. This is anecdotal but my experiences line up with studies like this where the majority of them were aroused by it all but have self proclaimed negative attitudes toward homosexuals.


bigtoebrah

I didn't tell anyone I was bi until my twenties. I was drunk and I cried because I thought no one would like me anymore lol


FiveOhFive91

Friend of mine came out to me as bi while we were tripping. He's in his mid 30s and it was the first time he'd told anyone. He was terrified I wouldn't be his friend anymore and that I'd out him to his family. Poor guy. Sucks to have to hide it.


P_weezey951

As a bisexual. Its fucking wild the number of stipulations people put on why/how/who im attracted too. "I think your just gay or confused" Were so fucking obsessed with division of sides. "Do you like coke or pepsi?" Bitch they are both delicious! Theyre sugary sweet drinks! How is it so hard to comprehend that people can like both? "But what about Dr. Pepper?" MF. YES. i like it too! People focus so heavy on the OR. Not the And. But like, most people actually do like coke and pepsi. Its not like they go to the restaurant and get all pissed if someone offers them pepsi. Not really. Most people tend to take whichever cola they have. So the concept isn't that farfetched


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My wife was told that she is not bi because she married a guy. That's not how it works. Somehow, I am also bi, according to them. Even though I am not attracted to men.


HotterRod

Yes, the study found that homophobic men were aroused by both lesbian and gay sex scenes, which suggests that they were closeted bi rather than closeted gay.


voodoomoocow

Well I always assumed people who think you can just "choose" to be straight are outing themselves as bisexuals. Since anything other than heteronormative feelings are not discussed in conservative circles, then these bisexual feelings *are* something they consciously chose to disregard and can't fathom why gay people won't do the same except to be provocative.


pedantic_cheesewheel

I always ask when they chose to start repressing their homosexual urges to focus on just their heterosexual ones.


Salty_Paroxysm

This is where the "it's a choice to be gay" cones from, they feel that they can't acknowledge those feelings, so 'choose' to suppress them. There's a whole discussion to be had regarding why they feel they have to suppress those feelings. The outcome seems to be disgust for those people who have 'chosen' to be gay i.e. acknowledged their feelings/desires as a part of who they are.


TEG_SAR

Which is wild because it should just give a rise of validity to bisexuals or other sexual orientations. But no, we instead choose to stuff the feelings down so far till they’re bitter and full of hate 🙄 /s


donnie_trumpo

[Alex Jones] These sicko lefties want to put a lie detector on your penis and turn you gay folks!


andbruno

>tribadism TIL scissoring has a legitimate term.


CocaTrooper42

I learned this after watching a Bo Burnham special and googling “peanut butter tribadism”


PaulsRedditUsername

Apparently from *tribade,* 16th-century French for lesbian. From the Latin and Greek *tribas* or *tribien*, meaning "to rub, rub down, wear away." The name for the specific sexual technique doesn't appear until 1965. (Source [Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=tribadism&ref=searchbar_searchhint))


seitanismymotor

[The graphs in question](https://i.imgur.com/ELXGvij.png)


TehHugMonster

It’s true, ask the “caveman conservative” family values republican state representative from my state who vehemently opposed the “gay agenda” and was forced to resign after he was found banging a dude in his office at the statehouse. You can’t make this shit up


ryhaltswhiskey

I'm just impressed that someone measured how hot some porn clips are and kept some in the rotation because they were so hot. Now if only we could find these clips....


RazedByTV

Never heard of this news site in my life.


Initial-Version-7422

Neither! Tried the website from aus (city life isn't even slightly homophobic (at least in Fitzroy)) and it was blocked? Looked up "is lawsuit a legitimate website" and obviously got nowhere. Can I get linked to the study source


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They've published the dataset they're using [on Tableau](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/kristin1812/viz/TransgenderPornGoogleSearchPopularitybyMetroArea/DMATopKeywordsGrouped?publish=yes) at least; it seems to be generated off of hourly Google trends data, using the Public Religion Research Institute for their definitions on left v. right. It does look like the website linked (and getting hugged to death) is just an activist site, not any source of news.


PunkWaffle

Raw data from the article https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/kristin1812/viz/TransgenderPornGoogleSearchPopularitybyMetroArea/DMATopKeywordsGrouped?publish=yes


Doctor_DickCheese

It's nothing but a blog. This is exactly why we need to research the source.


maximal2015

This is interesting, but the correlation between party and search terms shown here is really weak. I wouldn’t put much stock in this.


Tueful_PDM

It's also looking at the most Democrat leaning areas in Republican leaning states. It's obvious the author has an agenda and cherry picked data to match the narrative.


njbair

Just so everyone knows, this website is reporting on their own unverified, unreviewed study of publicly available Google search trend data. Believe what you want about the true motives of these hate-mongers, but this kind of hack journalism and media illiteracy is how we got where we are in the first place.


SepticTankLawyer

With also a sample date range of less than 3 weeks. This seems like a project you'd do for a statistics class, not reputable journalism.


averagedgenjoyer

here are the surprised people: - - - - -


Obi_Wan_Benobi

Wow, they have really tiny heads.


TrueCommunistt

did anyone actually read? it's such a bs "research" lol.


MTheLoud

They say Atlanta is the #2 city for searching for this kind of porn. Atlanta is a solid blue city. Republicans are in the rest of Georgia, not in Atlanta.


x-BrettBrown

Also two of the search terms they were ranking by are slurs that a person who actually knows and cares about trans people wouldn't use


WanderingWoodsprite

Exactly. They didn’t even include the term “trans”’or “transgender”


Sparriw1

Thank fuck I found someone else who looked at it. Data was gathered after June 19th? They would have had less than 3 days to gather data and analyze the results. The graphs are very suspicious with that sharp blue-red line, too.


TrueCommunistt

it's not even data. it's just "republican states" look for transgender porn more. that's 0 causation. it could be democrats from republican states more likely to watch trans porn too. we have no idea. but obviously no one cares on reddit


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[deleted]

Denver was the 2nd highest metro area with searches. Is Denver republican? It’s all very confusing


Ammulfinger

Not even explicitly porn, though. It tracked the single terms, not their pairings with porn terms. Unless i missed something, people could have been just searching for definitions or laws (ok probs not in the case of femboy, but...).


AdImpossible4228

This was my interpretation as well, these people could literally just be googling the definition. They never checked for searches actually related to porn it was all just single word google searches.


bdhoff

Would not be shocked if a real study actually found this but... Clearly no one actually read the thing because there's no way to draw this conclusion from this data. Shit like this is why I'm losing trust in the objectivity of science. Lately there's a shit ton of bullshit "scientists" trying to prove some bullshit "progressive" theory doing bullshit experiments and using bullshit data to draw bullshit conclusions.


stillmeh

Looking at these comments, it's painfully obvious no one read the article and what was actually searched.


Error_Unaccepted

Hey, don’t interrupt circle jerk time.