Study Reveals That Watching Porn Regularly Could Make You More Religious

A study conducted by an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma (www.ou.edu)  , Samuel Perry has revealed that men and women who watch pornography regularly tend to be more religious than those who watch it occasionally. He surveyed a group of 1,314 adults who answered questions between 2006 and 2012 about aspects of life on Religion and Porn.

Although, Perry's study shows that viewing pornography can reduce religiousity over time, but those who viewed porn two or three times a month turned out to be the ones who shunned religion the most. At higher rates of porn viewing however, the trend in religious prominence later on appears to increase slightly.

Surprisingly, Perry disclosed that those who view pornography once a day or more attend religious services at almost the same level as those who say they never, no never look at porn at all. A likely deduction is that some people simply separate porn viewing from their religious beliefs. Another, however, is that those who might be deemed to have a porn habit raise their religious attendance as an expression of guilt, he states.

About 39 percent confessed they had done watched porn the last 12 months. Almost three times as many men admitted to watching porn as women, adding that women are more religious.

Perry cautions that greater levels of religious practice do not necessarily amount to traditionalist sexual views in the first place.