The Church and Pornography

According to the church document Pornography and Violence in the Communications Media: A Pastoral Response, pornography is the following: Pornography in the media is understood as a violation, through the use of audio-visual techniques, of the right to privacy of the human body in its male or female nature, a violation which reduces the human person and human body to an anonymous object of misuse for the purpose of gratifying lustful desires. In accordance to …

…are neglecting the spiritual nature that God graciously gave us. By demeaning human dignity, pornography makes society, especially the young and impressionable, numb to morality. Pornography sends out an image that read “it’s ok to treat humans as objects; look how much fun it can be!” Pornography not only serves as a tool in the destruction of society’s basic fundamental norms, it also aids in the destruction of one’s own human dignity.