Pornography reduces the person to a thing. Perhaps a more revealing way of putting it is to say that pornography exchanges a name for a number. Hence its preoccupation with numbers: the size of the organs, the duration of intercourse, the number of partners, the frequency and intensity of orgasm. The so-called "vital statistics" do not denote life as such as much as a person reduced to a thing.
Mechanization, which invariably stamps things with sameness, has a strong affinity with pornography. They are both highly impersonal processes whose language is not of names, but of numbers. Pornography forces the impression upon the imagination that a human being is not an individualized person, but an amalgam of parts. One of the more pernicious consequences of the Freudean reduction of the person to conflicting parts is the willingness to ascribe rights to its most basic part, namely, the id. O. Hobart Mowrer has inveighed against Freudeanism for "championing the rights of the body in opposition to a society and moral order which were presumed to be unduly harsh and arbitrary."
Very accurate account of the effects of reductionsim. It reduces human beings to mere playthings and sex machines. It denegrates the sacredness of marriage, family and human life. It transforms sex from a communion of life and love into a simple tool of voyerisitic gratification.
Maybe it does. For some. Yet the naked pictures and the reactions therefrom ultimately reside in the mind of the "addict." My quip about everybody being naked under their clothes was not to be (too) smart alecky. I was attempting to point out that, for someone so inclined, bra ads or a line of football cheerleaders have the same effect as hardcore porn. Blaming the naked pictures is no different than blaming gun for murder, curettes for abortions. It's faulty logic, and faulty theology. There's no doubt in my mind that a successful ban on pornography would be the domino that ended legalized gambling, brought back prohibition, and ultimately shut down the internet. So your smug comments about anybody who disagrees with you needing to get their "porn fix" reveals more than simple self righteousness, it reveals religious fervor and moral judgement guided more by human weakness than by God's strength.