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A new study released by researchers as Case Western on religion and addiction shows that religious people are more likely to think they have a problem with pornography than\u00a0nonreligious\u00a0people\u2014even if they barely watch it at all.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The study, titled Transgression as Addiction: Religiosity and Moral Disapproval of Perceived Addiction to Pornography\u201d and published in the journal\u00a0Archives of Sexual Behavior<\/a>, found that on the whole, religious people were just as likely to view pornography as nonreligious people\u2014something that the researchers did not expect. The differences arose when it came to how they\u00a0felt<\/em>\u00a0about their pornography viewing.<\/span><\/div>\n
God-fearing participants were much more likely to think they were addicted to porn than those who were not religious\u2014even if they viewed the racy content only once.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cIt is a very common thing in religions to throw that word (addiction) around a lot when they talk about pornography,\u201d\u00a0said study author<\/a>\u00a0Joshua Grubbs.<\/span><\/div>\n
Grubbs says he got the idea of the research when he was an undergraduate at Liberty College, a Christian school. He say how he classmates felt they were \u201caddicted\u201d to porn even if they only viewed it for a short time.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A new study released by researchers as Case Western on religion and addiction shows that religious people are more likely to think they have a problem with pornography than\u00a0nonreligious\u00a0people\u2014even if they barely watch it at all. 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