Perils Of The Porn Pandemic
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
Porn use begins potentially as early as the moment a child receives a cell phone or gains access to the Internet for the first time. Addiction to porn is beginning at earlier ages than ever before. Medical experts are choosing which diseases are the stars of the latest “pandemic,” but a real pandemic with devastating consequences goes largely undiagnosed and ignored. The pandemic of porn is a soul killer and a marriage killer.
Pornography use is sinful and an occasion of further sin. Priests, parents, and educators of all kinds must be alert to its ubiquity and be agents in the effort to turn back its widespread and toxic influence. Human dignity is violated by the objectification of the person and of the marital act. The human person is sacred. The words and actions of the person are called by God to always reflect that dignity.
“Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2354
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