[Vigilanteman]

Could be summed up as:

(1) It rots the mind.
(2) It rots the spirit.
(3) It interferes with genuine sexual intimacy.

[Morgana]

True but with some you have to explain why.

[olepap]

Porn? Boot it out of your life!

[Mrs. Don-o]

A divorce lawyer my brother knows, says that porn is now the #1 reason people are getting divorces. Not that it is the only factor, because many of these are, of course, multi-problem marriages. But it’s there, it’s big, and it’s the one problem least likely to be satisfactorially dealt with. He says even substance abuse (addiction) is easier to remedy.

[DaveyB]

This reply is not meant to start a flame war, but I realize such thinking is placing one's foot right on the third rail.

(1) It rots the mind. (2) It rots the spirit. (3) It interferes with genuine sexual intimacy.

So how is it different than network TV, Romance novels and Pop music?

My theory is that the real source of anti-porn sentiments are that:

• Wives feel like they have to work at being better in bed when they would rather not. Also they have to pay more attention to their appearance.
• Sex is a lever of control for women over men, especially wives over their husbands and porn neutralizes that control.
• Porn is a male expression of sexual desire, where romance novels and the lifetime channel are female expressions: feminists condemn male sexuality while embracing the female desires.
• The church has not recovered from a thousand years of tepidly condemning sex and veneration of celibacy creating a guilt complex over real intimacy.
• Porn is like the term abuse, it has no fixed meaning so that discontent wives can always have something to feel offend and threatened about and therefor can maintain their life of drama.

  Porn in most uses is probably still sinful, but then so is 50 shades of grey and the programming on the lifetime channel. But only porn gets the vitriolic responses.