Who Wants to Censor Pornography and Hate Speech?

Associations of Perceived Addiction to Internet Pornography with Religious/Spiritual and Psychological Functioning

“…Additionally, the concentration network showed that religiousness was linked specifically to the Emotional Distress scale via moral disapproval of pornography use. These results suggest that, consistent with previous work (Carroll et al, 2008;Lambe, 2004;Lottes et al, 1993), people who are more religious have negative views of IP use. And, in turn, moral disapproval of pornography relates uniquely to distress resulting from using pornography but not to one's perceived compulsions regarding pornography or efforts to access pornography.…”

“…Research consistently shows that religious individuals report negative views toward IP (Carroll et al, 2008;Lambe, 2004;Lottes et al, 1993;Thomas, 2013). Although being religious is related to less use of IP (Carroll et al, 2008;Nelson et al, 2010;Short, et al, 2008;Wright, 2013), religious individuals who consume pornography report lower levels of well-being on factors such as guilt and shame associated with pornography use (Grubbs et al, 2010), as well as higher levels of unhappiness and depression in general (Patterson & Price, 2008).…”

The roles of value predispositions, communication, and third person perception on public support for censorship of films with homosexual content

“…Studies have shown that people who adhere to societal norms also tend to exhibit higher levels of authoritarian submission, that is, the extent to which a person is willing to defer to the ruling party in any given nation (e.g., Xu, Farver, Zhang, Zeng, Yu, & Cai, 2001). As authoritarian submission has been positively associated with censorship support (Lambe, 2004), it is reasonable to deduce that people who conform to norms will likewise espouse the need to censor film content depicting homosexuality. Given these considerations, we hypothesize the following:…”

“…Religiosity has been found to be positively associated with support for censorship (e.g., Fisher, Cook, & Shirkey, 1994;Herrman & Bordner, 1983;Lambe, 2004;Thompson, Chaffee, & Oshagan, 1990). Previous research has shown a negative association between intrinsic religiosity and tolerance of film portrayals of homosexuals, but demonstrated no significant association between extrinsic religiosity and tolerance of such film portrayals (Detenber, Cenite, Ku, Ong, Tong, & Yeow, 2007).…”

Sexual Content on Mainstream TV Advertising: A Cross-cultural Comparison

“…This trend stands in contrast with the decrease in the prevalence of sexual content in mainstream network programming over the last two decades (Hetsroni 2007b), so even if public concern over the increase in "indecent TV advertising" is exaggerated, it has at least some factual basis. For people who oppose any presentation of sexuality in public (and there are many conservatives who share this opinion), even a tiny percentage of sexual ads may seem "too much" (Fisher et al 1994;Lambe 2004).…”