• Porn is harmless, really. For this assumption to be true, the following must also be true:
- Porn doesn't harm me.
- Porn doesn't harm my partner.
- Porn doesn't harm our relationship.
- Porn doesn't hurt other people in any way.
- The people in porn aren't hurt by their participation in it.
- Nobody is hurt by virtue of their exposure to porn.
After thinking about these statements, can you really say that porn is harmless? |
| • Everybody looks at porn. It's just normal behaviour. |
| • Porn is just an expression of healthy sexuality. |
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Instant pleasure and gratification is just a click away. The type of pleasure that porn promises is fleeting and shadowy. You can chase after it for hours, weeks, and years, but it will never fill you up. |
| • Porn takes far more than it gives in return. Are you willing to make that exchange? |
| • Porn can never provide the emotional connection or companionship that people need.
Would you sacrifice the intimacy and love of a meaningful relationship for a something you can never connect with? |
| • Porn tells you what to think and do, instead of being creative and original in romantic relationships. |
| • Porn sets standards for male and female sexual roles. |
| • Porn tells young children and girls that to be liked thay have to look or act a certain way. |
| • Porn deadens men's ability to connect with women. |
| • Porn encourages the viewer to see women as sexual objects to be conqured, subdued and violated, instead of people to be respected, loved and cared for. |
| • Porn encourages animal behaviour over our intellectual behaviour |
| • Porn is a slippery slope, or pandora's box. What started out as "I'll just take one look" can turn into an obsession, and take you down to depths you never imagined when you started. |
| • The people in porn are someones daughter, or son, brother or siter, mother or father. |
