[chajin]

To put it delicately...Mr. Prager is a political conservative, but he is also a practicing Jew, and to the best of my knowledge there are no Talmudic arguments against pornography, as opposed to the Christian arguments which are largely listed here.

Remember, the passage in Matthew 19 is in response to a rabbinical debate between Hillel and Shammai as to whether one can divorce a wife for any reason, and Jesus comes down to the far-right side of Shammai, saying that the only reason is porneia, which is more than just adultery, it is using oneself as a sex object--which is why we call it pornography in the first place.

[Phinneous]

Your assessment of Talmudic law is incorrect.
Prager does not yet practice Orthodox Judaism. As pointed out there are scriptural prohibitions, and in the Talmud and post-Talmudic code of Jewish law explicit prohibitions against gazing at anything sexually titillating or salacious. Absolutely prohibited.
He’s usually a great conservative spokesman but is way off the Jewish reservation here.

In Chassidic philosophy— the thinking-sin is worse than the actual in some ways... corrupting core soul-faculties rather than just exterior actions/limbs...

[jjotto]

Practicing Jew? What does that mean? Prager does not practice traditional Judaism, and does not uphold traditional Jewish teaching regarding modesty and ‘guarding one’s eyes’. As pointed out earlier, he makes up his own religion.