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I sometimes wonder if an EMP wouldn’t be the best thing for our culture.
Thanks for sharing this. With two teenage daughters, this really hits home.
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Instead of looking at porn from the point of view of sin or not sin, it might be better to examine it from the viewpoint of “malfunction.”
(Imagine the following in Sir David Attenborough’s voice.)
Someone once observed that females are compelled to “exhibit the goods” to potential mates, as much as males are compelled to watch this exhibition “like lions watch gazelles.”
The problem is that it is left up to females to figure out how to do this, and they are as likely as not to do it wrong. For example, in fashion, for a girl to have one item of clothing, or an accessory, that is a little peculiar, actually make her more attractive to other people.
But dressing like a space alien freak is a big turn off.
And for a lot of women, the extreme of “less is more” in their clothing, leads to porn, especially if they get paid for this malfunctioning natural inclination.
The same thing applies to males who spend their days porn gazing. With living, breathing females, seeing them exhibit, even in a very ordinary, normal and not naughty way, means that they now need to approach the female as a potential suitor, if they are interested.
But they cannot do this to an image from halfway around the world. Again, it is a malfunction in the system.
Oddly enough, Screwtape often spoke truth. C. S. Lewis always got it right. Never moreso than in “That Hideous Strength” whose most most repulsive villain is a sadistic lesbian. Because the perversion is the major part of the villainy, no whitewash offered by today’s enlightened views manages to erase it.
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About 15 years ago I watched a TV magazine (20/20 or 60 minutes or...) segment on this topic. Young men in college were talking about their increasing struggles with dating because there weren’t many women who were attractive according to the media view (extremely slender, excellent complexion, full mane of hair, body in elegant proportion). They seemed to see past and through the women attending classes with them who were too ordinary to matter.
One very handsome young man perceptively said “I don’t know how it happened but somehow it seems like, to be pretty, a woman has to be skinny. If she’s not skinny, I’m not attracted to her...” He said he knew and enjoyed many of his female classmates but basically wasn’t attracted to them and he kind of wondered how the girls felt about that. And so these men felt that competition for ‘interesting’ women was overwhelming because there were so very few women who made the grade.
The women, when interviewed, were of mixed opinion. Some were resigned to it and hoped to have a fuller dating life upon graduation (i.e., more fish in the sea) and some reported being invisible. Some girls talked about walking down the hall and hearing congregated groups of men assign numeric ratings to their backsides, busts etc. and how terrible it was to hear daily ratings telling them how far they were from being attractive (i.e., per the cosmetic promise of the media).
Leviticus 19.29