Ex-Gay Adult Film Star-Turned-Minister Joseph Sciambra Complains About “Gay Bowel Syndrome” And Porn Culture

The last time we heard from ex-gay BDSM adult film star Joseph Sciambra, he was warning us that gay sex anally births the devil and lamenting over having to have his “sphincter almost stitched shut” after a shoot one time. Now, in a new interview with the Catholic World Report, the born again Christian minister had a lot to say about life after hardcore gay porn, which he describes as an “addiction.”

“Porn is an addiction, and it is progressive. It is comparable to being addicted to drugs,” Sciambra says. “When I became part of the homosexual culture, I found it was a society founded on porn. Porn in the gay world is what glued us together.”

“We acted it,” he continues. “We’d go to bars to get picked up, and have sex in bathrooms, on bar stools, on dance floors, and in bath houses. In my day, Mission Dolores Park was a big place where people would go to have sex. I believe it still is. When I go to minister there, I see used condoms on the ground … We meet and have sex on the ‘first date,’ but it really wasn’t a date. We were very ‘porn-ized’ as gay men.”

OK, first of all, how did Sciambra know the condoms he saw were used for gay sex? And secondly, what the hell does “porn-ized” mean?

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Sciambra also says that underneath the surface of every gay man is “a life of disease, loneliness, and disappointment.” He, of course, knows from experience.

“When I was in the gay lifestyle, I was constantly sick,” he says. “I had chlamydia, gonorrhea, gay bowel syndrome, yeast infections—you name it.”

Gay bowel syndrome? What?

(For the record, we Googled this strange condition and learned that, once upon a time, “gay bowel syndrome” was an actual medical term used by some proctologists in the mid-’70s and early-’80s. It eventually went out of style a few years later after it was determined that the condition was neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome. Evidently, Sciambra’s doctor didn’t get the memo.)

“Beyond the physical symptoms, there are the emotional problems,” Sciambra continues. “Boys who involve themselves in the gay lifestyle are emotionally wounded … They join the gay community with an earnest desire for love. That’s why I did. But they get used up pretty quick. There are older people waiting for young people to come because they want to have sex with them. The young people then become scarred, bitter, and hostile.”

He just said a mouthful there.

Since “leaving the gay lifestyle,” Sciambra says he’s authored a 178-page e-book called “Swallowed By Satan“ about his experiences, which he claims has done “pretty well.”

“People living in every continent except Antarctica have read it,” he says. “Some tell me that it gives them hope that they can be healed … I get hundreds of emails every day from people looking for help.”

“Now that I have come back to Christ and his Church and embraced chastity,” Sciambra claims, “I’ve never been happier.”

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