Destroying towns everywhere, lurking behind bushes and attacking children, eating women when they least expect it — the evil creature that is pornography will attack every home in sight if we let it.
But really, why on earth wouldn’t we?
Porn is not the monster we’ve created it to be in this society. Viewing pornography is extremely taboo, but it’s not harmful. It’s perfectly normal.
According to a survey conducted by University of Sydney’s Graduate Program in Sexual Health, 30 percent of women and 70 percent of men watch porn online. Unfortunately, due to the explicit and uncomfortable nature of the topic, these results are probably a bit low.
It’s depressing to think that in a country where our freedoms are expressed so openly it’s still unacceptable to speak willingly about sex and our growing propensity towards all things sexual, including erotica.
Yet, in a country that is historically very Christian, it’s not so surprising that our Bible Belt culture is holding us so tightly by the belt. In the Christian Bible, Matthew writes, “Everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his Consumption.” Their survey of 688 Danish men and women “found that respondents construed the viewing of hardcore pornography as beneficial to their sex lives, their attitudes towards sex, their perceptions and attitudes towards members of the opposite sex, towards life in general, and over
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