Posted on 09/25/2014 8:25:58 AM PDT by Morgana
1. The reasons pornography is not wrong.
Pornography isn’t wrong because sex is bad or the body shameful. It's wrong because sex is good and the body magnificent! As Christians we must never forget whose idea sex was in the first place. It was not thought up by Hugh Hefner or by Cosmopolitan magazine but by God! In fact, God's very first commandment to humanity in the Bible is to “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen 1:28)! And as philosopher Dr. Peter Kreeft noted, “I do not think he meant for us to grow oranges and invent calculators.”
Pornography is wrong because it removes sexual intimacy from its natural context, turning it into a commodity to be bought and sold. It has been rightly said that the problem with porn is not that it shows too much but that it shows too little—too little of the human person.
Pornography reduces the mystery and beauty of a man or woman to a collection of body parts to be used rather than recognizing them as persons to be loved. It reduces the great mystery and sanctity of human sexuality to a trivial activity that need not be of any real importance.
2. Pornography is not just a man’s issue.
While it is certainly true that men have cornered the market on visual pornography, it’s not true that women don’t also struggle. One survey revealed that 34 percent of female subscribers of Today’s Christian Woman online newsletter admitted to intentionally accessing Internet porn.
Because pornography is predominantly consumed by men, many women who struggle with pornography feel an even greater sense of shame and isolation. One young woman I know put it this way:
For over seven years, I was addicted to hardcore pornography, masturbation, and lust—and I am a woman. Often we hear that women may struggle with fantasy and romance novels, but porn—porn is a guy thing. One of the most shaming statements I ever heard was, "Women just don’t have this problem." I started to lose hope after I heard that. How do you argue with the ‘fact’ that only men struggle with porn? It is sad, because this mindset is causing so much damage to women. It causes many women to question their sexuality and wonder if they are homosexual because they are involved in a sin "only men" get caught up in. It isolates them, silences them, keeps them trapped in this sin and drives them further away from freedom and into the darkness.
If you or a woman you know struggles with pornography, be assured that you are not alone. Help is available, and healing is possible. You might begin by visiting the website Beggar's Daughter.
3. Porn stars don’t enjoy what they do.
When I inquired of a friend of mine, a former porn star, if this was the case, she said, “Well, there are several reasons why girls get into the porn industry, but a hardcore sex drive isn’t one of them. I know, because that’s what I used to tell people in interviews.” Another former porn star put it this way:
Sex-packed porn films featuring freshly dyed blondes whose evocative eyes say ‘I want you’ is quite possibly one of the greatest deceptions of all time. Trust me, I know. I did it all the time, and I did it for the lust of power and the love of money. I never liked sex. I never wanted sex, and in fact I was more apt to spend time with Jack Daniels than some of the studs I was paid to fake it with. That’s right—none of us freshly dyed blondes like doing porn. In fact, we hate it. We hate being touched by strangers who care nothing about us. . . . Some women hate it so much you can hear them vomiting in the bathroom between scenes. Others can be found outside smoking an endless chain of Marlboro Lights. . . . But the porn industry wants YOU to think we porn actresses love sex. They want you to think we enjoy being degraded by all kinds of repulsive acts.
Pornography “immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world” (CCC 2354). One such illusion is that the women in the porn industry enjoy making pornography. While this may be a convenient illusion for those seeking to justify their pornography use, the reality behind the fantasy is another story entirely.
For an eye-opening and detailed insight into the world of pornography, get my two-CD set, The Ugly Truth. On the first CD I interview a former porn star, on the second a former Playboy producer. I truly believe that anyone who listens to this with an open mind will never be able to truly justify pornography again.
Be fruitful and multiply was God’s first punishment to man for eating the Apple. Bill Cosby.
Romance novels and 50 shades of grey were written for women.
They are just as destructive as porn is for men.
Hooters Hooters yum yum yum
Hooters Hooters on a girl that’s dumb.
I wanted to be a porn star years ago, but when I auditioned, they said I was to short, even when I was taller than most of the guys and girls at the audition? I guess they didn’t like the way I looked?
“They are just as destructive as porn is for men.”
Except there are no actual sex industry workers needed to produce porn books for women like there has to be to produce live action porn for men.
Freegards
By the way...everyone click on the link and look at the picture of the run down adult book store. Notice it reads “Adult Book’s” Why does the word “Book” have an apostrophe? Think about it? The apostrophe in this case would mean it shows possession. What does the book posses in this statement? Bad grammar on the part of smut peddlers.
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“I wanted to be a porn star years ago, but when I auditioned,....”
Be thankful you did not lose your soul to that.
I remember reading that John Stoltenberg, a self-described radical feminist man, said that pornography tells lies about women, but it tells the truth about men. He was wrong.
The truth about both men and women is that we were created to experience sexuality only in the context of marriage and parenthood. Anything else is a lie about all of us, and we know who the Father of Lies is.
Me too. I just shredded all my screen plays.
Is it a 12 step program?
It takes two.
Men are equally responsible for a marriage gone bad.
I continually hear men whine about their wives and blame-shifting to them, but men aren't perfect either and they need to work at the relationship as well.
It's not a one sided thing where the woman does all the heavy lifting to maintain the relationship and the man comes home, eats a already made meal, sits around on the computer or in front of the TV, while the wife is finishing cleaning up after dinner, getting the kids ready for bed, making sure everything is ready to go for tomorrow, and then the guy wonders why she's not interested in hopping in the sack when HE wants it.
Women can and do get burned out raising their kids and the male she married that acts just like one.
A man's job is not done when he comes home from work, any more that a woman's job is done at 6.
I had a few parodies in mind. Oh well. One day I will use screenwriter.
The men need to find out WHY she doesn't want it because women are perfectly capable of wanting and enjoying sex.
I'm sure it never occurs to many men that they may be the reason she's not interested.
amen
Sadly its gone from a hush-hush thing that many women would never admit to, to an open secret and a punchline.
Little girls can now have access to examples of women humiliating themselves for attention and “affection” and being celebrated in the process.
(1) It rots the mind. (2) It rots the spirit. (3) It interferes with genuine sexual intimacy.
So how is it different than network TV, Romance novels and Pop music?
My theory is that the real source of anti-porn sentiments are that:
Porn in most uses is probably still sinful, but then so is 50 shades of grey and the programming on the lifetime channel. But only porn gets the vitriolic responses.
lol
correcting their grammar isn’t that high on my list of hate for porn.
reminds me of Weid Al’s “Word Crimes” though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
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