content: A Plague of Modern Day: Pornography What follows are not my thoughts but quoted from an user via a Telegram channel. Here it goes: This topic needs little introduction, as it is the disease which has killed more than the Black Plague, stricken more people than the cold, and infects more than any parasite. This disease is unspoken of, accepted as ubiquitous and looked upon as something so normal, it is unnormal and bizarre to resist and eradicate it. This plague has seeped into society, and one of the main driving forces which heralds the destruction and degradation of the person, the nation, and then the world. Even when trying to combat it, many still fall victim and become ensnared at every turn; just as they feel one thorn removed, the vines constrict further upon them. This plague is pornography.  Purely from a secular view, pornography is self-defeating. It flatters and tricks the intellect and viewer into thinking that they’re experiencing the acts committed within. Why, if one wishes to engage in sexual intercourse, would they view people committing those acts? Why would they choose the knock-off cheap imitation, when they could have it in real life?  With the rise of the usage of the word “cuck”, people overlook that they themselves are the word they levy at others to insult. Watching pornography is watching others engage in sexual activity while the view sits without any participation. They gain nothing from it, except tricking their brain into releasing dopamine to placate their natural desire for union. As we will see shortly, it is that craving for unity and completeness that is at the heart of these plagues. Some statistics on Pornography:  * 12% of all websites online are pornographic Every single second, 30,000 people are looking at pornography 40 million Americans consider themselves regular pornography views  Over 70% of men between the age of 18-24 regularly look at pornography The average age when a child is first exposed to pornography is 11 years old http://www.techaddiction.ca/files/porn-addiction-statistics.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/ql6uls.jpg Pornography is awful for many reasons, but it physically and emotionally harms the user in two primary ways.   First, when viewing pornography, there is instantly a hook into the viewer. The material provides a powerful stimulant which is followed by sexual release, usually mastutrbation.  When persons become addicted, they cannot release their dependence. As time goes on, the person requires more explicit, more sexually deviant things to get their release. Marriage does not solve their problem. The pornography implants images into the brain, which ferments, like a disease and festers into your brain with actual chemical and emotional addiction.  It then desensitizes the view. Pornography, which was previously viewed as heinous now becomes normalized and defended as “everyone does it”.   But singularly, it rips apart intimate family and marital relationships. The seeds sown by pornography is destruction.  Even the United States Congress testifies: "The clinical and experimental evidence supports the conclusion that there is a causal relationship between exposure to sexually violent materials and an increase in aggressive behavior directed towards women … We have reached the conclusion, unanimously and confidentially … that substantial exposure to sexually violent materials … bears a causal relationship to anti-social acts of sexual violence and, for some subgroups, possibly to unlawful acts of sexual violence …"[5] "The evidence is also strongly supportive of significant attitudinal changes on the part of those with substantial exposure to violent pornography … and leads to a greater acceptance of the 'rape myth' … that women enjoy being coerced into sexual activity, that they enjoy being physically hurt in a sexual context and that as a result a man who forces himself on a woman sexually is in fact merely acceding to the 'real' wishes of the woman regardless of the extent to which she seems to be resisting. The myth is that a woman who says 'no' really means 'yes' … This attitude is both pervasive and profoundly harmful … any stimulus reinforcing or increasing the incidence of this attitude is … properly designated as harmful."[6] "The non-violent … material studies … portray women as 'masochistic, subservient … nymphomaniacs and overresponsive to serving the male interest."[7] "An enormous amount of the most sexually explicit material … as well as much of the material that is somewhat less sexually explicit, is material that we would classify as 'degrading,' the term we use to encompass the undeniably linked characteristics of degradation, subordination and humiliation … depicting people, usually women, as existing solely for the sexual satisfaction of others, usually men, or that depicts … women in decidedly subordinate roles in their sexual relations … or depicts people engaged in sexual roles most people consider humiliating."[8] "Substantial exposure to materials of this variety is likely to increase the extent to which those exposed will view rape or other forms of sexual violence as less serious than they otherwise would have and will view the victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence as significantly more responsible … and will increase the acceptance of the proposition that women like to be forced into sexual practices."[9] "The manner of presentation almost necessarily suggests that the activities are taking place outside of the context of love, commitment or even affection … It is far from implausible to hypothesize that such materials, depicting such activity, bear some causal relationship to sexual activity without marriage, love, commitment or affection … to the extent that the character of sex is public rather than private … then to many this would constitute harm."[10]  Nogals🇿🇦  "Perhaps the most significant potential harm in non-violent materials exists with respect to children … much, probably most, and maybe even all material in this category … is harmful when it falls into the hands of children. Exposure to sexuality is commonly taken, and properly so, to be primarily the responsibility of the family … We have no hesitancy in concluding that learning about sex from the kinds of sexually explicit material in this category is not the best way for children to learn about the subject … There are harms to the children themselves and to notions of family control over a child's introduction to sexuality … We have little doubt that much of this material finds its way into the hands of children." "For children to be taught by these materials that sex is public, that sex is commercial and that sex can be divorced from any degree of affection, love, commitment or marriage is the wrong message at the wrong time."[11] "The distinguishing characteristic of child pornography … is that actual children are photographed while engaged in some form of sexual activity, either with adults or with other children, [causing] a special harm. … Children as young as one week up to the age of majority are induced to engage in sexual activity … and … are photographed while engaging in that activity. The inevitably permanent record of that sexual activity created by a photograph is rather plainly a harm to the children photographed … [and] the very activity involved in creating the photograph in itself is an act of sexual exploitation of children … The issues related to the sexual abuse of children and … child pornography are inextricably linked."[12] Secondly, pornography is a lie. It promises union and love that every human being wishes for. It promises to show acts of love, through the sexual union. It lies for both of these things, and it causes the view to live a life of lies.