Basically half the US thinks this way and votes this way. If you are a conservative and upset at my comment, understand the people you vote for SIGNIFICANTLY support the religious nuts.

I'm not from the US, don't live there (and don't vote there).

Billions of people still live under the framing that their religion is the only truth in the universe and think that prostitution is defined as some sort of bad thing according to their holy books. Even just limiting to Christians and Muslims, that's billions of diverse people who are limited to very against prostitution and sex out of wedlock. Why are you surprised that some of them can find this community?

Why would social conservatives and Christians, who make up a large share of US population, not be expected to be present among HN commenters?

Because they weren't in the past. And because HN is an international forum for tech geeks; I think social conservatives and Christians are underrepresented in tech; and I am quite certain the kind of social conservatism and "Christianity" that exist in the US doesn't exist in the same proportion, or with the same beliefs, elsewhere. In Europe for instance, so-called "pro-lifers", while they exist, make up a small minority of the public.

Fair, but if the underrepresentation is 50% say, half of a large number is not tiny. Tech nowadays is a major career path akin to law or medicine, less of the niche idiosyncratic subculture it was 20 years ago.

Anecdotally, my socially conservative church is full of FAANG developers & one of our lay pastors is a highly-cited ML researcher

Hacker culture is full of exactly the kind of people it used to despise.

In Europe in many countries left wing feminists fight against prostitution, I'm not sure what you're talking about.