Knights take on pornography

osvdailytake.com ^ | June 10 2009 | Mary DeTurris Poust

[GonzoII]

Fathers for Good, a website for men operated by the Knights of Columbus, is offering a host of resources to address the growing availability of and addiction to pornography. Click HERE to listen to a podcast of Deacon Ralph Poyo talk about his former addiction to pornography and how other men can avoid falling into the same trap. Click HERE for an article by Gerald Korson on computer porn and the ways it can destroy a marriage and a family. Korson's article also includes a link at the end that will take you to other resources, such as counseling and addiction programs, as well as pastoral letters on the subject.

[GonzoII]

[Aquabird]

This is such a joke.

First, the Catholic Church’s ‘Theology of the Body’ is, by its very definition, saying that there is something with how God designed Man’s body.

If the Catholic Church was serious about ending pornography, it would inspire wives to get in shape and actually start sleeping with their husbands again.

Why is it that female porn, the Soap Operas and romance novels that many women consume, are never mentioned? Why is it that women looking at men as ATM machines are never ‘sinful’?

[ConservativeWarrior]

If the Catholic Church was serious about ending pornography, it would inspire wives to get in shape and actually start sleeping with their husbands again.

Wow. Get back in the looney bin, buddy. You're one whacked individual.

[DogwoodSouth]

Huh? Umm.... ooookaaayyyy.....

[Drew68]

If the Catholic Church was serious about ending pornography, it would inspire wives to get in shape and actually start sleeping with their husbands again.

You're bad. I laughed out loud.

[Salvation]

I’m trying to figure out if you are dissing Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and Christopher West’s Theology of the Body Explained

or endorsing both those authors.

Can you clarify your statement?

[Salvation]

For your information:

Christopher West's Theology of the Body Webiste

Books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, etc.

From book by the same name by Pope John Paul II.

By His Fruits You Shall Know Him: A Defense of Christopher West
Christopher West’s ideas on sexuality ignore ‘tremendous dangers,’ Alice von Hildebrand says

[Salvation]

K of C ping!

[bdeaner]

Recommended reading:

"Why Do Men Look at Porn?"
by Christopher West

[bdeaner]

Great quote from West's article:

"In men, inverted sexual desire tends to seek physical gratification at the expense of women. When lust takes control of a man’s heart, it seeks release in whatever outlet presents itself. This is exactly what the porn industry capitalizes on.

Why does all of this pain women so much? Because women want to be loved and cherished for who they are as persons, not for the sexual release they offer men. The opposite of love is not hatred. The opposite of love is to use someone merely as a means to an end. This is what lust leads men to do – use women rather than love them."

West's writing is so wonderfully lucid and unpretentious. What a treasure he is for the Church.