Gross is a suburb-Christian youth minister with Fall Out Boy hair who tours super churches and invites suburban dads and their sons in to talk about how much they hate themselves for loving Internet porn. Nothing creepy about that. Just a room full of fathers and sons talking about how much they understand how easy it is to devote yourself to Internet porn. Gross also runs XXXChurch.com, where you find out being a young, hip Christian teen fighting a porn addiction is cool.
Analysis time: You know what? It pretty much is (cool). I don't think I'm the only one who looks at suburban Christians and sees the future. I mean, Bush was elected to lead America into the new millennium twice, and as painful as it was it made too much a sense on an abstract aesthetic/emotional level. There's something hyper-clean and flatly, cartoonishly, purely loving about mega church Christians, but they also carry with them something self-hating and psychological-repression-loving and very dirty, just below their surface, which leads me to believe they have awesome sex. Like Civil Rights era interracial sex, or student/teacher sex. The kind of psychologically twisted power-game emotional sex people fully at peace with themselves in the Liberal way can't have anymore. I'm inclined to call them on their porn-hating bluff, but I think their apparent communal obsession with Internet porn makes sense to all of us, including them, and the apparently intense presence of forums for discussion about it proves they are not only totally okay with the open secret that they love Internet porn, but that it fits in with their worldview perfectly. It's the perfect counterpoint: dirty on the surface and wholly sterile and naive just underneath. Suburb-Chrisians and Internet porn is a match made in heaven. What's the news flash, Couric?
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