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Residents of “right-leaning” U.S. states are more prone to seek out Internet porn than their liberal counterparts, according to a new Canadian study compiled by sifting through Google search data.

Published this month in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, the report concludes that even when they are surrounded by “very religious or conservative citizenry,” Americans will “nonetheless seek out and experience the forbidden fruit of sexuality in private settings.”

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Prepared by researchers at Brock University and the University of Toronto, the 11-page study dug up the porn-seeking trends of all 50 U.S. states and weighed them against the state’s “religiosity” and “conservatism” as determined by Gallup polls.

As author Cara MacInnis wrote in a Monday email to the National Post, she was interested in the “paradoxical hypothesis” that “right-leaning ideologies” were linked to “greater preoccupation with sexual content in private Internet activity.”