The legitimacy of pornography is becoming a major topic in today?s media. This essay will explain the implications and ramifications of the topic, what makes it a moral issue, the church?s teaching and position and it?s development over time, as well as a personal response to the issue.
Porn, like the poor, has always been with us. Evidence of graphic pornography can be found among the relics of many ancient civilizations. In Roman culture, for instance, erotic paintings dating from the 1st century A.D. cover walls in the ruins of volcano-engulfed Pompeii. Pornography was widespread in medieval Europe but found expression mainly in doggerel and satirical verses. The advent of printing in the 15th century prompted a flood of pornographic literature; many of the texts were filled with the same graphic language, which litters modern-day skin magazines. Still, pornography remained largely limited to "an educated elite," according to The Invention of Pornography (Zone Books, New York, 1993, edited by Lynn Hunt).
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Christianity Grunge Flag(Smut Through the?, pg. 27) One of the major problems that many people have with pornography is the accessibility of it. In our age of mass media and the Internet, pornography is becoming increasingly easy to access. Even with government controls and regulations, pornography is still very accessible to children, using the Internet alone.
Pornography takes human sexuality, including love, fidelity, family, and fulfilment, and turns it into a meaningless means for providing pleasure. Pornography displaces love with lust. The fundamental reason that lust is listed as one of the Seven Deadly Sins is precisely that it gives pleasure over the person. This kind of inversion of proper values is at once unjust to the object who is regarded primarily as an instrument of pleasure.(DeMarco, 2001) Several psychologists, after spending two subsequent decades of research based on the increased...