Offering a title with the exclamatory promise of “Yes, God, Yes” and opening with the (partial) definition of tossed salad, the feature directorial debut from “Obvious Child” writer Karen Maine isn’t short on foreplay. But where her Sundance breakout offered spiky truths wrapped in candid laughs, this SXSW winner is more content to play it safe. A sex comedy that carries what might be the gentlest R-rating in recent memory, “Yes, God, Yes” is a mostly routine romp through a well-worn genre that fails to ignite a climactic spark. 

In the classrooms of a nondescript, ordinary Midwest Catholic high school, Father Murphy’s (Timothy Simons) cringe-worthy assertion that men are like microwaves and women are like conventional ovens is what passes for sex education.

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As any teen movie will teach you, high school is hell. But if you grew up Catholic, then every single thing in life meant a one-way ticket on the express train to hell — especially anything sexual in nature.

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So what’s a teenage high school student to do if you discover Internet porn for the first time, but you know that God is just waiting to punish you for eternity?

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If you grew up a follower of the Catholic faith, you know all about shame and guilt. Coded right into the DNA of the religion is the knowledge that God is watching you and that you’re bound to break one of the many, many rules that you should live your life by. Yes, God even saw you when you discovered Internet porn for the first time, which is chronicled in the new film, “Yes, God, Yes.”

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As seen in the teaser for the film, “Yes, God, Yes” follows the story of a young teen girl in the early-2000s that finds herself trying to reconcile her belief in God and teachings of the Catholic church while also discovering the joys of self-pleasure and pornography.

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