The conservative anti-abortion activist, who has ties to the House Freedom Caucus, revealed his addictive tendency in a podcast interview with “The Regular Catholic Guy Show.”
“I struggled with pornography and being exposed to it at a young age,” Houck told host Jeff Garrett. “Of course, that leads to, you know, sexual sin, masturbation and stuff. And so, that was a chronic habit that I had that just became a bad habit. Ultimately it was self-medication, I can say initially, and then it became a bad habit.”
Houck’s previously unreported remarks about his behavior are not his first open acknowledgment of his interest in porn — a 2011 report on a Catholic-centered group that he co-founded connected its work to his “16-year pornography addiction.”