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Study links evangelical Christianity to phallic insecurity in the US - C C - Apr 17, 2021
Apart from dependency on Google, sounds like something vintage recycled from 1950s sexology. Maybe they should have released this on April 1, just in case a centenarian still remarkably hanging on at a desk job noticed it.
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https://www.psypost.org/2021/04/new-study-links-evangelical-christianity-to-insecurity-60461
INTRO: Phallic insecurity tends to be greater in regions of the United States that have a higher proportion of evangelical Christians, according to new research published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. The findings suggest that America’s evangelical subculture perpetuates insecurities about penis size.
For their study, the researchers compared the popularity of Google searches for “male enhancement”, “make penis bigger”, and similar phrases to the adherence rate for evangelical Protestants in each state. They found that as the proportion of evangelicals in a state increased, the relative frequency of Google searches for these “male enhancement” terms also increased.
This relationship held even after controlling for several state-level factors, such as gender, political ideology, age, percentage married of each state population, percentage black, and education.
“Though there have been dissenting voices and countermovements within mainstream evangelicalism, writings of prominent evangelical thought leaders have for decades relied on phallic symbolism and even explicit phallic references to either valorize physical strength or, more often in the negative, castigate Christian men for their lack of ‘manliness,'” the researchers wrote in their study.
[...] One advantage of using Google data is that it avoids a common pitfall of self-reported measures... (MORE)
RE: Study links evangelical Christianity to phallic insecurity in the US - Syne - Apr 17, 2021
More women are evangelical than men. How does penis insecurity account for that?
And since when is "manliness" only about the phallus?
More than likely, this result is about the proximity to evangelicals rather than evangelicals themselves. Since religion and marriage are strong predictors of happiness, it's likely that it's the nonreligious, unmarried, and dissatisfied men who are making those searches online. After all, why would married men (which are the vast majority of church-going men) be concerned about their penis?