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Especially since pornography is largely an outgrowth of the repression of sexuality by political and religious institutions like the...um...Catholic Church. ;)

In a sexually healthy society, the more destructive forms of pornography would largely disappear.

Especially since pornography is largely an outgrowth of the repression of sexuality by political and religious institutions like the...um...Catholic Church. ;)

I hope you're just kidding here. To my knowledge, the Catholic Church has no interest in repressing sexuality. The Catholic Church is merely interested in discouraging sexuality outside of marriage. Within marriage, the Church says have at it. Are you going to argue that a sexually healthy society is one where people are having promiscuous sex outside of marriage and family?

Pornography if allowed to run rampant brings about the overall sexual degeneration of a society. Institutions such as Catholic Church serve a purpose of keeping pornography in check. On the other hand, this goes both ways. Sexual repression leads to aggression. I believe you need both extremes.

In a sexually healthy society, the more destructive forms of pornography would largely disappear.

I agree.

Passions that are hidden and repressed inevitably fester and become destructive and violent in their intensity.

Especially since pornography is largely an outgrowth of the repression of sexuality by political and religious institutions like the...um...Catholic Church. ;)

In a sexually healthy society, the more destructive forms of pornography would largely disappear.

This of course is a completely liberal concept which denies the truth of original sin, the concept that man has a fallen nature and has does not have the power within himself to overcome and resist temptation to perversion and sin without the help of divine grace. Liberals deny the doctrine of original sin and believe that man has the power within himself, through natural means, apart from divine grace, to overcome evil.

A "sexually healthy" society would recognize the divinely revealed truth that sex is for procreation, and belongs uniquely within the sacrament of marriage. And the laws of that healthy society would be conformed to this divinely revealed truth. However, this would not prevent all perversions, nor the tendency to perversion, just like laws against murder, and theft do not prevent all murders and burglaries, nor the desires in the hearts of some people to do these things.