Whether you look at porn or not, chances are you know somebody who does...whether you realize it or not...and there's no doubt that you have at least indirectly been impacted by porn (if, for no other reason, how how our society has been coarsened and hyper-sexualized)
Msgr Pope ping
My favorite quote on pornography: “Pornography?...I don’t even have a Pornograph!”
I wonder what he thinks about pedophile priests.
Back in 1941, C.S. Lewis wrote in “The Screwtape Letters” that the “worship of sex” was a primary movement in his day that, if brought to full term, would be a cause for celebration among the devil and his angels.
BFL
To cut a long story short, there is a chance that, by reading this book, new light will be shed on aspects of your life that you maybe rather wasn't shed.
You might, as I did, cement a realization of just how close you have come to the dark one, or something operating in his name, and in doing so, bring to the immediate fore elements that you'd rather not get too acquainted with.
This book, just paper and print though it is, could act as a trigger to strange happenings that will revolve around very personal (and usually undesirable) aspects of your life and your self.
It will not "create" anything new in your life, only make you aware that certain influences already present might actually be something more than you feared and act as a catalyst to escalate certain processes.
Yes, you might be getting "tested" by dark forces and not be entirely aware of it until you read this book and relate the experiences and processes described. Not a nice revelation to have, though perhaps, necessary? The subtlety, complexity, disturbing "realness" and almost boundless reach of Lucifer into your very life and person will make itself known to you in stark and obvious shades of bright light to an extent that is hard to digest. So don't read this book if you doubt you are ready for such things.
I think the church is missing a bet here. Pornography is the end result as much as the cause of problems. And the church could help alleviate this to a great extent.
Much of the western world has a serious problem of segregating its boys and girls, so they have minimal chaperoned contact with each other until they turn 18, at which point they are supposed to spontaneously date, fall in love, get married and have children.
As anyone who raises dogs will tell you, if you keep a dog separated from other dogs, it will still want to mate, but it will see other dogs as “the enemy”. And children are not that different.
This, as much as anything else, is why pornography is so huge in the world. Adolescents are strongly compelled to want to mate, but have no experience or understanding of the other gender. It is regarded as a major psychological breakthrough for an adolescent to even conclude that the other gender are “human”, not just objects.
Parents assume that children have this necessary gender socialization in schools or in church, but that does not happen, because the children are assigned so much to do that they do not have the time to interrelate.
So what could the church do?
Perhaps the easiest thing would be chaperoned, semi-formal dance classes. It would require a small degree of polite physical contact, and even if only one day a week, it would mean perhaps two hours of unbroken interaction with a particular individual of the opposite gender. And each week a different partner, in rotation.
But that is just a start. Eventually there could be several activities of a similar nature. And when it became time for them to date, marry, and have children, they would know what to look for in a spouse.
The advent of the Internet has made porn available instantly and everywhere. It’s also obvious that this availability is coincident with our collective national/cultural plunge into depravity.
And I think it’s very likely that one of the reasons for now widespread ED is because men are looking for love in all the wrong places, and then can’t “perform” with their wives.