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Being married does not mean that a person is experiencing intimcay and often the hunger for the same drives people to seek quick fixes like pornography and masturbation to fill the void.

We in the Church need to take the development and support of healhy marriages VERY seriously and often we don't. We also need to see how our buying in to a very corrupt vision of the American dream is killing us body and soul and take steps to live and love in a different way.

We in the Church need to take the development and support of healhy marriages VERY seriously and often we don't.

Agreed. I think the issue is that churches very often take the view that worldly stuff happens, and they're there to put on band-aids after we stagger off the field. It seems that too often the church tries to hard to be of this world, and thus has lost sight of its duty to help us be "in the world, but not of the world."

Maybe it goes deeper than that. Unlike cigarettes, porn is not a temptation for me. I don't seek it out on the net, but sometimes stumble across it. I don't shrink from it, wonder why anybody would want to pose like that, and get on with other things.

At one time I was somewhat curious about it, but that has long since been satisfied, and I find it disgusting, even if it is done in "good taste" because it means exploitation of a human being, usually a woman but not always.

I think it is a shame that so many people are being overcome by an addiction to porn. It is not a healthy expression of any kind of sexuality I would consider normal. Where is there any real love in any of it? It's all based on lust and stimulation.

The Catholic church has always or long taught that it is sinful. I do know Catholics get caught in the net same as others, but maybe true repentance at the sacrament of reconciliation can heal persons of this addiction. I don't know.

If I had a husband, and if I loved him, I would be very distressed if I found out he was seeking porn on the internet or elsewhere. I would probably want a divorce. I don't like men that get off on porn, and maybe there aren't many left like that out there.

Is it a fantasy or mine, or did true gentlemen of the past enjoy porn if they could get their hands on some?

I think Playboy magazine started the ball rolling downhill, although there must have been crude forms of porn throughout history.

PS. I once saw my Catholic supervisor going into an adult theater quite a ways from his home on my way home from work. It upset me, because in the workplace, he seemed like a really nice man. Maybe someday I'll find out it was just a look-alike.