Daniel Peterson wrote:There's definitely a problem, and it's worse than I had realized until recently.
We recently had a Saturday evening session of Stake Conference where our SP spent almost an hour on the subject. Every Bishop or SP that I am friends with seems to have, at one time or another, told me "You have no idea how bad it is."
I think the biggest problem will be with the current generation of youth as they become adults; they are growing up in a world where pornography is accepted to a shockingly high degree. At recent activities, I've heard the youth in our ward make offhand comments that have conveyed to me that the world they are growing up in is very different than the world I grew up in!
It will be interesting to see if/how Church policies adapt to deal with the problem.
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I'm uncomfortable with the dissociation in pornographic situations between affection and sexual gratification, personally. I think it's probably a lot healthier to just have a sexual relationship with someone you care about, even if you're not married.
hobart wrote:it's only if you project moral values on it that it is one or the other.
That's true of Auschwitz and the Cambodian killing fields, too. Strip them of moral valuations and meaning, and they're nothing but the termination of functioning in carbon-based biochemical systems at unusually high rates and levels of concentration.
hobart wrote:it's only if you project moral values on it that it is one or the other.
That's true of Auschwitz and the Cambodian killing fields, too. Strip them of moral valuations and meaning, and they're nothing but the termination of functioning in carbon-based biochemical systems at unusually high rates and levels of concentration.
Very true. But don't equate the two please; I'm trying to have an intelligent conversation about the morality of sexuality, not genocide.
The realm of sexuality is not independent of morality, though. You would have been more precise to say "only if you project specious moral values on it [...]", hobart.
cinepro wrote: At recent activities, I've heard the youth in our ward make offhand comments that have conveyed to me that the world they are growing up in is very different than the world I grew up in!
How so?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
harmony wrote:There's a perfectly logical reason for that, Merc.
Explain
I'll explain: The reason Utah has the highest amount of porn consumption is because I live in Utah.
harmony wrote:
Daniel Peterson wrote:The relatively large population of ex-Mormons in Utah probably accounts for that unfortunate statistic.
Do you have documentation of that number, Daniel? What is the source?
His source is that he knows I live in Utah.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Daniel Peterson wrote:That's true of Auschwitz and the Cambodian killing fields, too. Strip them of moral valuations and meaning, and they're nothing but the termination of functioning in carbon-based biochemical systems at unusually high rates and levels of concentration.
This must be the Korihoristic Weltanschauung spoken of by your disciple, St. Droopy.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond