Church Sponsors 'Porn and Pastries' Weekend Event

It was a church event billed as 'Porn and Pastries', but it wasn't what one would expect.

There were no naked images and some 300 women, mostly in their 20s and 30s, paid $10 each to attend.

They were instead there to learn about what to do when a woman finds out her boyfriend has been secretly spending a lot of time looking at porn, often while espousing Christian values.

'Porn and Pastries' was part of an anti-porn weekend at the Bothell church in Seattle. Porn and Pastries was the first women-only event that the church had done, as it stages more than 100 anti-porn gatherings a year.

Among those attending Friday's event was a 31-year-old Seattle woman whose husband told her a year ago, after five years of marriage, that he was looking at porn. Presumably he decided it was the Christian thing to do to tell his wife.

"Eww, gross," was her reaction, the woman tells the 'Seattle Times'. "Us women, we don't understand it, although I'm not surprised. I know many men look at porn. But that gives them unrealistic expectations. People in those movies are all done up, look great, and say 'yes' to everything."

That's why, she said, their home computer now has software that monitors its Web history. If a porn site is detected, a report is sent to the wife, as well as to a friend who's helping them out.

"There is no privacy when you're married," she said.

The church also preached no sex before marriage at the event, saying it is something that "will make a marriage better."

"We were addicted to the illicitness, taboo thing," one woman said. "We had to train ourselves that it didn't have to be wrong in order to be good."

 � Copyright 2004-2015 The News Vault. All rights reserved.