Pornography and Moral Blindness

drug more dangerous than crack cocaine. That, at least, was the opinion of some witnesses invited to testify on “the science behind pornography addiction”. It’s not a view shared by everyone.

Mary Anne Layden, co-director of the sexual trauma and psychopathology programme at the University of Pennsylvania, said unpublished research showed that “even non-sex-addicts will show brain reactions on PET scans while viewing pornography similar to cocaine addicts looking at images of people taking cocaine”. Jeffrey Satinover, a doctor whose website outlines therapies for homosexuals, described porn as a designer drug, delivered efficiently over the internet, which “does what heroin can’t do”. A third expert witness said there was an urgent need for research on addiction to “eroto-toxins”.>>

Porn or erotica, they all maintained, can trigger the release of natural opioids, which have a stimulating effect on the brain, which can cause grave danger when it happens to the wrong person in the wrong place.

I am sure I do not have to remind my readers that erotical is becoming increasingly common in our society. Pictures deemed fit [and even too lewd] for pornographic magazines of the 1960 now routinely find place in what are called “family” magazines. Many unsuspecting Christians routinely buy them and allow them to remain in their living rooms where they eventually blind their young and impressionable minds. The world knows this and that is why they spend millions a day to mould the plastic and pliable minds to love erotica today, and crave for them tomorrow.

A few years ago I spoke in an Arabian Gulf church on the influence of Pornography on young [and not so young] people and why erotica should be avoided by Christians. A man in his late forties came to me and said, brother, you do not have to raise so much alarm. After all we all should taste everything that comes our way and then decide what is what. I was stunned. He claimed to be a Christian, and yet was taking a stand against what Lord Jesus said [in the Bible verse quoted earlier]. Such can be the blindness caused by Erotica. It is more intoxicating than what is used by the street drug-addicts.

<<With thanks to New Scientist, & Original Journal reference: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (August 2005 issue)>>

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