Nigeria Ranks Second in Most Google Searches for Gay Porn

I personally find this shocking considering our cultural and religious stand again homosexuality. Oh well... What can I say?
According to Google Trends, the world's most intolerant anti-gay nations also record the highest volume of gay porn searches. The unexpected trend was first observed and reported by Mother Jones .
Kenya, where vigilantes routinely torture and kill gay activists, ranks No. 1 globally in searches for "gay sex pics" and "anal sex pics." Nigeria and Pakistan rank in the top five for those searches, and Pakistan ranks first for the terms "man fucking man," "teen anal sex" and "shemale sex."

But, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll on LGBT acceptance, Nigeria and Pakistan are two of the world's most brutally LGBT intolerant societies. And Kenya recently passed a law criminalizing homosexuality as well as gay rights. Only 1 percent of Kenyans said homosexuality should be tolerated.
In Pakistan, where homosexual behavior is criminal, only 2 percent of the population believes in tolerance for LGBT people. Open discussion of homosexuality in the Muslim nation is virtually forbidden.
Mother Jones asked Farahnaz Ispahani, an expert in Pakistani minorities at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former member of Pakistan's parliament, about the discrepancy between Pakistan's anti-gay attitudes and their behavior.


She said that part of the popularity of gay porn could stem from the fact that even highly observant Muslim males often have physical relationships with men without considering themselves gay.
"The real love they can have that most of us find with a partner, they find with men," Ispahani said. "They mostly see their wives as the mother of their children."
She added the persecution of minorities, including gays, has reached an all-time high in Pakistan.
"Religious extremism is at a height today," she says. "Hindus are being forced to convert, Christians are being burned aliv – there's very little personal safety for those seen as 'the other.' So what do (gay Pakistanis) do? They turn to pornography because they can't live their lives openly."
Perhaps the same phenomenon explains the discrepancy in other virulently homophobic countries.
It makes a lot of sense that people in these countries would turn to the Internet for their needs. Since homosexuality is so widely opposed, there are very few openly gay people. That does not, however, mean that there are any fewer gay people. Unable to foster healthy and public homosexual relationships, gay people predominantly restrict their sexuality to Google searches.
Additionally, since  homosexuality is neither commonplace nor understood, there is also a fascination with it. People tend to be curious about what is forbidden, and apparently gay sex is no exception.