Pornopoly: The Dominance of Immorality

By the time the couple made it to my office, their marriage was already chaos. She had cheated on him, he had cheated on her, and neither seemed remorseful. The problem, as they saw it, was that the other was not satisfying them. The problem, as I saw it, was that they had each spent years consuming pornography. Frequently subjecting their minds to perverse pictures had created a pattern of thinking and of arousal. And my counselees are hardly the only ones in this predicament.

The sexual climate of our culture is dominated by the pornographic. The way most people think about sexual expression is tainted by lubricity. True sexual morality is seen as inane and archaic. Sex and sexuality are governed by the immoral, and the pornographic mindset has cornered the market on all sex. In short: we live in a Pornopoly.

This monopoly has affected everything from sex education in schools, to clothing styles for pre-teens, to the expectations of married men and women in their bedrooms. The porn problem is not contained to adolescent boys and their computers in mom and dad's basement. It has spread, like a rapacious plague, across our culture and even into the church. Porn controls much sexual expression and sexual discussion in our culture.

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Evermyrtle

Sex out side of marriage is one of the most destructive thing going in in the world today. It seems that the world in a mindset stage of sexual conduct, today. It seem that so many are running a race at who can have sex with the most partners, total evil. Then there is homosexual sex, there is beastal sex. The human being has lost the sense of being GOD'S children and have become the devoted children of Satan or Lucifer if you please. To add to all of that WE HAVE LATCH KEY PARTIES, ANOTHER ABOMINATION TO GOD. IN SEXUAL ACTS THERE ARE MANY, THAT ARE MANY ABOMINATIONS TO GOD.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  Religion has always been one of the most destructive things in the world. It continues to hold that top rank.
http://www.divinenewsnetwork.com Min. Thomas Allen

The devil has many cards up his sleeve.
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  The devil is fiction. He has no sleeves to hold cards.
Evermyrtle

I Con. 6:13b-20
13b……….Now the body is not for fornication but for the LORD; and the LORD for the body.
14. And GOD has both raised up the LORD, and will also raise up us by HIS own power.
15. Know you not that your bodies are the members of CHRIST? shall I then take the members of CHRIST, and make them the members of a harlot? GOD FORBID!
16. What: know you not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two saith HE shall be one flesh.
17. But he that is joined unto the LORD is one spirit.
18. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body
19. What? know you not that your body is the temple of the HOLY GHOST,which is in you, which you have of GOD, and you are not your own?
20. For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify GOD in your body, and in your spirit which are GOD'S.
http://www.missiontoisrael.org Ted R. Weiland

Matthew 5:28 ("…whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.")
settles any question about pornography.

Pornography comes in many forms – magazines, movies, websites, music, dial-a-porn telephone services, and talk shows. Even if they do not sell Playboy, Penthouse, or Hustler, the newsstands in nearly every grocery store in America still display pornography on dozens of magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan, Vogue, and Sports Illustrated infamous swimsuit issue. These magazines do not pose women nude – but how much skin can be bared before Yahweh considers it pornography?

American society is at a point where women and men alike cannot remove much more clothing without completely exposing themselves. Christians’ ethics have been dulled to where little difference exists between the world’s morals and the average Christian’s. Consider today’s swimwear. What most women would never consider wearing in public or in mixed company becomes perfectly acceptable when it is adorned with stripes, polka dots, or some other design, and is worn at the beach or pool. It is ludicrous to think that men do not lust after these near-naked women. Yet, under such circumstances, it has become socially acceptable for women to tempt men to lust after them and for men to look on women in ways that are lewd and immoral.

Simply put, Christian women do not parade around in their underwear, polka dotted or otherwise, and Christian men do not frequent places where they will be tempted to commit fornication with women who do not have enough sense to keep their bodies covered: "Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the understanding. …For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have played the harlot, departing from their God." (Hosea 4:11-12)
- Vladimir
  
  Now that's good preaching, Ted.
  - http://www.missiontoisrael.org Ted R. Weiland
    
    Vladimir, thank you for your kind remark. However, I'm somewhat baffled: When you agree with me, it's good preaching and when you don't, I working for Soros!?!
    - Vladimir
      
      When you preach well, I reserve the right to express my appreciation. Your war against the Consitution is not what I consider a Christian endeaver. It is perfectly aligned with those who seek to destroy our freedoms for their gain of power and control. George Soros is an enemy of our way of life and what I believe are God given freedoms.
      - http://www.missiontoisrael.org Ted R. Weiland
        
        Does George Soros promote the God of the Bible's morality as the supreme law of the land? Does Soros promote the 10 Commandments? Does Soros promote Christ as Savior and Lord? Does Soros promote Yahweh as God, king, judge and lawgiver (Isaiah 33:22)?
        
        Come on Vladimir, there are lots of people who don't agree with me regarding my position on the Constitution, but only a vindictive Mormon would falsely accuse me of working for Soros. You obviously don't believe in the Ninth Commandment yourself. Regardless, unless you repent of calumny against me and surrender yourself to the Christ of the Bible, the day is coming when you will.
      - Vladimir
        
        So you do deny any affiliation with or support from George Soros?
      - http://www.missiontoisrael.org Ted R. Weiland
        
        Hello!!!
      - Vladimir
        
        I'm getting the feeling that you are intent on NOT lying, which is good, but you are, also, trying desperately not to admit that you are a Soros associate. Tough place when you have a vendictive Mormon snapping at your heels.
      - http://youtu.be/HlD3Gaq4cN0 Despeville
        
        "I'm getting the feeling…"
        
        That is demonstrative of your mindset Vlad and a reason you are in a cult. Feelings get you nowhere. Facts do lead to understanding.
      - Esteban Cafe
        
        Hmmm, that's quite a sweeping statement, given the many scriptures appealing to the heart. Why, here's one now:
        
        Luke 24:32
        32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
        
        And what caused their hearts to "burn within" them, if it was not the Holy Spirit?
      - Debbie
        
        Sorry, Ted, I meant to hit the thumbs up button and hit the wrong one.
      - myth buster
        
        And you don't believe that the Eucharist is the Flesh and Blood of Christ, so you falsely condemn worshiping It as idolatry. Get the beam out of your own eye, hypocrite.
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  No, it gives the biblical view. That does not mean the issue is settled.
Esteban Cafe

Many young men are initiated to porn via seemingly innocuous means, like video games. About 10 years ago I attended an international conference in Las Vegas (international for me) on web based systems and selling techniques. The keynote speaker? An IT manager for one of the world’s largest porn sites. He said, "We plant small 'tokens' or ‘views’ of naked women in video game sites, especially those offering 'cheat codes.' After all, if a kid is willing to cheat, he's a pushover for porn. Once we have him viewing, he is ours—very few ever manage escape velocity. Video games are to porn what coke is to heroin. I just need to get them to take their first sniff."

I was floored. But when I looked around, no one was appalled; indeed, everyone was frantically scribbling notes.

He understood how to gently introduce men (and now women) to porn. He also understood that they had to be underhanded in their approach and that those with a slightly less than honest approach (cheat codes) to life were the best porn candidates.

Finally, he acknowledged that porn is addictive and once hooked it would be difficult to recant one's position.
Evermyrtle

If this person and ll others in such a evil promoting and supporting roles, do not change, the outcome for them is a home with Satan forever more, because he will right there with them. They will face JESUS CHRIST before they are sent on to their eternal home. This is Biblical!!
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  Satan does not exist. Pontificating that he does is simply more absurdity.
RAL

Sexual immorality is touted in school. and it starts in just simple ignorance of watching our parents behavior and actions with those outside their marriage. What they watch, so children will see, what they listen to, so their children will hear, who their parents friends are.
Two of the largest is our children educated into it, a clearer case for more homeschooling (and many communities are looking into doing that) and our churches.
It use to be called 'fire and brimestone' preaching, and the message turned into being called hate, when it was just a reflection of the desire to the pastors 'flock'.
The Bible clearly states that the highest importance is getting God Word out…and not to corrupt it by mans hands.
Jesus made sure, just in the Pharisee's, just how corrupt and off what God said in WHOLE TRUTH, rather than what man deemed as truth.
Sexual immorality, is one of the easiest ways to pull Christians off Gods Word and WHOLE TRUTH, and in doing that point fingers at what is a worse sexual sin.
God created sex. God created the format for sex to be deemed proper, and in proper instruction.
Now, I am calling myself, as much as anyone in this sin.
Homosexuality is sin. Premarital/fornication is a sin. Masturbation is a sin. Adultery is sin. Anything other than sex, after marriage between a man and woman after getting married under God, is a sin. In the flesh and in the heart/lust/eyes, BOTH are sin. In fact, Jesus points out that our hearts are even more important, to show just how far apart we all are on knowing the values that God holds, compared to us.
In the church alone, if it was commanded by God, that only a white wedding gown could be worn, by the Christian women who stayed sexually pure before marriage…can anyone guess, in the truth of that being revealed, how many brides would have to wear black. What if that was the law, if a woman getting married, had to disclose that truth?
Too many Christians will point fingers at homosexuality, and become hypocrites into the WHOLE TRUTH. The measure in our jusifying just how little we have to do to be a Christian, to me shows how far away the church has fallen, and how badly we, every single one of us, must look in the mirror, and make the changes we know we have been putting off, justifying, ignoring or comparing to others. Our salvation is a one on one process of choosing, same as facing the giants in our lives. Compare and contrast may work in some venues. It doesn't in Gods.
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  RAL says "Sexual immorality is touted in school"
  
  Complete nonsense. Abstinence is touted in schools, even though sex education has been shown to delay teenagers first sexual encounter.
  - RAL
    
    "Sex education has been shown to delay teenagers first sexual encounter."…THAT, is utter nonsense.
    
    Before the 1950s, teens were taught to abstain from sex before marriage. One could count on one hand the number of known sexually transmitted diseases in those days. Today there are more than 35, and nearly one-third are incurable, you have them for life!
    
    In 1967, one out of every 32 high school students in the United States carried a sexually transmitted disease. Today, it is one in three, and the average pregnant teen is carrying 2.3 STDs!
    
    In 1980, no one had even heard the terms "HIV" or "AIDS." Today, 50+ million people around the world are living with it, and an estimated 28 million have died since 1981, according to the World Health Organization. But AIDS is not the only deadly disease circulating among the sexually promiscuous.
    
    In 1997, more U.S. women died from cancer, caused by the human papillomavirus, also known as "genital warts", than from AIDS. In fact, the Center for Disease Control reported HPV isthe most common STD among young , sexually active people."
    
    9 "Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
    
    18 "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. "(1 Corinthians 6:18-20).
    
    Even though all STDs are preventable, the one solution that truly works is often ridiculed (as ignorance and immorality does), and its advocates looked upon as archaic religious fanatics (as ignorance and immorality does). Yet this solution can work, just as it is resonating with a growing number of today's teens.
    
    Proverbs 1:7
    "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
    - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
      
      (Reuters) – Teenagers who have had formal sex education are far more likely to put off having sex, contradicting earlier studies on the effectiveness of such programs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
      
      They found teenage boys who had sex education in school were 71 percent less likely to have intercourse before age 15, and teen girls who had sex education were 59 percent less likely to have sex before age 15.
      
      Sex education also increased the likelihood that teen boys would use contraceptives the first time they had sex, according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
      
      "Sex education seems to be working," Trisha Mueller, an epidemiologist with the CDC who led the study, said in a statement. "It seems to be especially effective for populations that are usually at high risk."
      http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/12/19/us-sex-…
      - Vladimir
        
        Jeff, you speak of sex education as a monolithic presentation. It is not. Fairfax County, Virginia has a school board that tries to put pass parents anything it can. They have better security than NSA in keeping what they are teaching the children about sex from the parents. It took us a long time to wake up and even now they are determined to circumvent parental oversight. They restricted the FLE material and won't release it to the public. Parents demanded to see it and were allowed to view it in a room on school property only. We were shocked at the message that was being taught to our children. Homosexuality was okay as was masterbation. Basically, ANYTHING was okay as long as you didn't get pregnant or transmit a disease.
        
        Sex education also depends on the moral values of the presenter. The "politically correct" presenters are the worst.
        
        Every parent in this country who wants to protect their children needs to sit down and teach them good moral values early on and keep them as far away from "public sex education" as possible.
      - RAL
        
        Jeff,
        I is obvious you care nothing of God, but a plant of satan, which is the fruit of your spirit and your guiding father (whether you realize it or not). None of my words are meant for your ears, and I rebuke you in the name of Jesus the Christ. I also call on the Holy Spirit to intercede on your heart and soul, the rest is up to you.
        
        I have a friend who has said the same thing for years. He actually got mad at me, for my happiness. I had to laugh at the anger it created, and he couldn't even see where he was headed. He told me he didn't want to hear about God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit…so I didn't. Years went by and he left to live in another state. He got married, had kids and forgot all about God. Then, years later, I got a phone call from him. I could feel the pain in his heart, but we hadn't spoken in years. A wave of pain came over me, and I knew he needed more than my words. I conveyed my love for him, in what he was dealing with, and somehow was able to have him go to a local church where he lived. This didn't happen overnight. He said the same exact things you have…and yet one day he got to turning out the lights, and as he rested his head had the words, "What if God is real" come into his heart.
        
        Month's later he called me back. He had excepted Jesus, but he had a question for me. "Why did you never tell me about God?" I told him he just wasn't ready. Gods timeline has nothing to do with anyone but you and Him. What I do, others here do and you do with your relationship with your creator/father, be it God or satan, is on you.
        
        I wish you no harm or hate Jeff. I wish you a life full of love and peace. God Bless.
        
        2 Chronicles 7:14:
        "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
keyboardshark

Sexual desire is normal, but pornography is not. I know this sounds like a 'duh' but you might be surprised at how many people confuse the two. God created sexual desire in men and women, but he wisely placed the bounds of marriage around it as the only legitimate avenue for a man and a woman (not two men or two women) to experience that relationship. Pornography cheapens the sexual experience by making it a display of visual lust removed from the emotional attachment and commitment of marriage.

Anyone who is a male knows that seeing a woman in various stages of undress causes an almost automatic, internal reaction, and that is why pornography is so dangerous. It becomes like a drug where the user needs more and more to achieve the same level of hormonal stimulation, but since the relationship part is missing, there is never any ultimate satisfaction.
- http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
  
  Pornography has been around since humans became humans. It is part and parcel of sexual desire. Both men and women experience it. There has always been variations of human relationships, and there always will be.
  - keyboardshark
    
    Jeff says: "Pornography has been around since humans became humans."
    
    And so has any other sin you can think of. It all started when Adam and Eve rebelled against God in the Garden of Eden.
    - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
      
      It is impossible for there to have been an Adam and Eve. Two people cannot create a viable community of individuals. The cross breeding that would have occurred would have destroyed the group. And let us dispense with the nonsense that that inbreeding would not have been a problem since Adam and Eve were created perfect. People are more healthy today than in the past. We live longer than any group of people known. Fables in the bible about people living to be 900 years old are such more nonsense. Other cultures that existed at the time of the bible do not report that people lived to be 900 years old. It is simply in the bible where this absurdity is discussed.
      - Evermyrtle
        
        Not sane enough to merit an answer!!
      - Vladimir
        
        Jeff, you can't just dismiss something on your authority. After Adam and Eve were forced out of the Garden, there was basically no sin. They had transgressed the law and brought mortality to the earth, but as for sinning, there just wasn't much of that going around so the environment was still pretty healthy. As for other groups of people you mentioned, there weren't any. The bible gives us the genealogy from Adam and there just wasn't any other groups that were dying young. As time went on, sinning became more prevalent and the life span of people dropped. Case in point is the dark ages. Then, as humanity "discovered" hygiene and started practicing good sanitation, our life span increased.
      - keyboardshark
        
        Jeff says: "People are more healthy today than in the past."
        
        Lifespan may have increased compared to say 200 years ago, but that is due to lower infant mortality rates and greatly improved sanitation. 200 years ago, people did not know anything about germs or that they should wash their hands, so of course many diseases were more prevalent, but the general health from a biological standpoint would not be any better today, and may be worse now because of the passage of time which allows genetic mistakes to accumulate.
        
        In fact, modern living conditions may actually be causing health problems. Cancer, for instance, was almost unheard of before the 1700's, and is likely related to modern diets and pollution.
        
        "Diet, pollution and modern living conditions have been implicated as the factors responsible for cancer, concluded researchers, after analyzing the remains of almost 1,000 individuals from ancient Egypt and Greece.
        
        The investigation, conducted by a team from Manchester University, looked into medical literature of the time for descriptions of cancer symptoms as well as examining today's remains for signs of the disease. They did, for the first time, manage to identify cancer in one Egyptian mummy but this remained the only example in their widespread search. With this in mind, the scientists concluded that cancer was even rarer than previously thought.
        
        Professor Rosalie David, who led the study, said: "In industrialized societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. In ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle." http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_…
        
        Your argument that " Two people cannot create a viable community of individuals" is based on the erroneous assumption that the number of genetic mistakes in the human genome is the same now as it was at the time of Adam and Eve. But you are forgetting that genetic mistakes accumulate and increase with time. In other words, the information in our DNA gets more garbled—it never increases in clarity.
        
        Since mistakes are accumulated in our DNA, it is logical to assume that as we go back in time there would be less mistakes. The reason brothers and sisters cannot marry today is because they are likely to have similar DNA errors leading to children with birth defects. http://www.creationtoday.org/cains-wife-2/
        
        As for the long ages people lived in the past, which you claim is a fable, it would make perfect sense to have a much longer lifespan in light of the thousands of years in which genetic mistakes have been accumulating, which were not present at the time when humans lived multiple hundreds of years. Time is not the friend of the human genome, or for the genome of any animal. As the genetic mistakes accumulate, so do the diseases and defects which lead to shorter lifespans.
    - Vladimir
      
      One day Eve became suspious of Adam and accused him of cheating on her. "How can I cheat on you? There aren't any other women.", said Adam. Eve thought for a moment and then said, "Come here, Adam, I'm gonna count your ribs."
bighoss

Nekkid wimmin and images of same have been and will always be with us, whether as art or porn:

There once was a sculptor named Phidias,
Who sculpt in a manner most hideous.
He sculpt Aphrodite without any didie,
And shocked all the ultra-fastidious.
- Vladimir
  
  Just a wee bit flippant there, eh bighoss?
  - bighoss
    
    No–a LOT flippant!
    - Vladimir
      
      Oh
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Flippant is the appropriate response to most of what is posted here.
aceituna

Pornography is another example of how the misuse of a gift from God turns into "big trouble".. Truely we reap the consequences of what we do. Our permissive culture is bringing the consequences of many hurts, diseases etc. It is time to repent and turn to God for forgiveness.
myth buster

Contraception and pornography are the twin vices from which most sexual sin originates. Contraception says, "You can have all the pleasure and none of the responsibility," and pornography says, "Sex is all about you." The result is that users of both never learn self-control and embrace either of the only two biblically approved sexual lifestyles: faithful marriage or perfect celibacy.