Someone else has commented on this earlier, it's worth to keep on mind that Patrick and his wife have very likely been unable to have sex for literally years, and these magazines might very well be Patrick's only outlet if he doesn't want to cheat on his wife. Given how devoted he is overall this seems plausible, so am reluctant to give him any shit over it. :v
I perfectly understand that a man who cannot have sex with his wife due to her being ill prefers to masturbate than to cheat on her...
IF that man is
not a Christian bigot
who want to impose the moral of his church on his daughter...
...have you been tought Christian doctrine? A real devote Christian would consider a worse sin to masturbate than to have sex with a woman outside marriage.
Because masturbation is "selfish" and not "open to life": God gets very angry when semen is ejaculated outside a vagina.
Better inside the wrong vagina than in a tissue.
But, of course, bigots are very strict with sins of other peope while they always come up with an excuse for their own sins...
(And I think DPK put porn magazines in his drawer purposely to underline his hypocrisy, not to justify him)
