The more you hate someone, the more you … jack off to them? What?

North Carolina wants to keep transgender people out of their bathrooms. Mississippi just passed House Bill 1532, which undermines the Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage by defining marriage as between biological men and women, igorning the thousands of trans and intersex people living in the state. Utah is arguably the most pious state in the union.

So then, what are these states doing watching more LGBT and incest porn than other states with much more welcoming attitudes towards the LGBT population? It seems as if bigoted crusades like North Carolina's and Mississippi's don't do much for anyone except make a few people really, really horny.

Case in point: according to adult entertainment site GameLink, the number one best selling title in North Carolina is My TS [Transsexual] Teacher, followed by Shemale Shenanigans, and third is Joey Silvera's Trans-Visions 6.

"We have seen significant growth in the viewing of TS movies in North Carolina since 2012," said Jeff Dillon,Vice President of GameLink's parent company, eLine to Broadly. "Viewing TS movies has increased 64.3 percent [for North Carolina]; our average state increase during this time is 47 percent," he added.

GameLink also ranks Mississippi as the sixth biggest viewer of gay porn, but number one in gay incest porn. We guess that also makes it numero uno in hypocrisy as well; the top five movies watched in Mississippi on GameLink over the last 90 days are Full Service Transsexuals, Fathers and Sons Number 3, Bareback Sex, Daddy and Me, and Joey Silvera's Trans-Visions 6 (again). My, that one is popular!

"Our user data show Mississippi has been consuming gay and transsexual pornography at a high rate in comparison to the rest of the country," said Dillon. "It's unfortunate to see that their diverse viewing habits do not translate into an open-minded society."

It also seems relevant that, according to GameLink's numbers, Utah downloads the most incest related titles.

Initially, the inherent hypocrisy of these anti-LGBT states rabidly consuming LGBT porn seems counterintuitive, but there's a psychological reason behind it. The hypersexualization and subsequent fetishization of both trans bodies and homosexuality are perceived as threats to some, and when it comes to arousal, threat is weirdly effective at revving up the old genitals. Regardless of how wrong that is, or how many people's lives are negatively affected by legislation that makes these perceived threats official, there's a reptilian tendency humans have towards fear-based arousal, and it comes across in our porn habits.

In fact, there's a direct scientific link between fear and arousal. The idea behind it is called the "Misattribution of Arousal Theory," and it postulates that people will mistake certain feelings—heightened sense of fear in particular—for sexual arousal. One 1974 study by Dalton Dutton and Arthur Aron demonstrated this by having two groups of men cross either a stable bridge or a nerve-wracking, high bridge. The men who were on the anxiety-inducing bridge were more likely to feel attracted to a woman who approached them with questions, mistaking their fear-related symptoms for sexual attraction. Given this connection, it makes sense that the kind of person a North Carolinian or a Mississippian fears the most would also be the one they can't stop masturbating to (or having sex with).  

Another similar study tried to probe the existence of the Misattribution of Arousal Theory, and found that when people are physiologically aroused without being consciously aware of it, they attribute their arousal to an even in their recent memory. Given that homosexuality and trans issues are such hot topics in the media right now, especially online where someone would expect to find porn, it's not surprising that some people by feel suddenly aroused by gay or trans porn in spite of their political beliefs.

More than anything else, porn is about fantasy. But unfortunately for some people, fantasy is shameful. Legislating against that fantasy is just a way to deny you have it at all and protect yourself from the guilt of having it. That's what's really going on in states like North Carolina and Mississippi, and it doesn't take very many viewing of My Wife's Massive Cock 12 to figure that out.