Porn Again Christians

By Bill Maher

Here’s something really cool about self-reported statistics: Religion doesn’t make you any more likely to be addicted to porn than a sane person, but it makes you a lot more likely to describe yourself as addicted to porn. Stay with me on this. Most psychiatrists don’t think porn addiction counts as a disease, but researchers at Case Western University think that thinking you’re addicted to porn can cause psychological distress, depression, compulsive behavior and anxiety – what Catholics call “good healthy guilt.”

Everyone with a computer spends all day, every day looking at porn. Or cats, or people falling down. But mostly porn. But only some people think they have a problem. And they tend to be religious.  

In the study, conducted at Case Western University, researchers found there was zero link between faith (or lack of it) and how much porn people watched. But the more religious the subject was, the more likely they were to describe themselves as “addicted.”

“We were surprised that the amount of viewing did not impact the perception of addiction, but strong moral beliefs did,” says Joshua Grubbs, who led the study.  

Is it weird that religious people – who insist that an omnipotent super friend has their back 24/7 – are more likely to call themselves absolutely helpless in the war against nipples? When it comes to not looking at strangers fucking, it’s Jesus take the wheel. Is that nuts? Or does it make perfect sense?