Pornography and its messages are involved in shaping attitudes and encouraging behavior that can harm individual users and their families. Pornography is often viewed in secret, which creates deception within marriages that can lead to divorce in some cases. In addition, pornography promotes the lure of adultery, prostitution and unreal expectations that can result in dangerous immoral behavior.

Young people growing up in our already overly sexualized culture are being exposed to sexually explicit material on a daily basis through network television, movies, music and the internet. Children are being exposed to sexual material and m

Idolatry is the "worship of a physical object as a god" and "immoderate attachment or devotion to something." Worship means to show "extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem." (Both from Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Visiting porn sites on a regular basis, masturbating to images and mulling the images over in one's mind bears strong resemblance to a form of worship. Those potent, sexual images seem to rise to the top of one's mind, occupying a mental altar that the person repeatedly goes back to in his thoughts. Even if a person is not worshiping the porn images, he arguably is worshiping himself by pursuing self pleasure and gratification. Even if you have no religious convictions at all, sexual idolatry is a pursuit that has no positive side effects. Side effects linked to sexual idolatry can include divor

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