Thanks for the link, Zenith. I saw it and carefully pondered thereupon.
The exposure to pornography may ultimately lead certain individuals (who may have already been predisposed to certain psychopathic patterns of behavior) to dehumanize themselves in the process of dehumanizing the persons who are portrayed in the material in question by making them the objects of base and bestial desires and fantasies. In pieces they begin to lose themselves, and lose meaningful connections with others, and this is correlative to the intensification that carnal concupiscence experiences in its unceasing hankering for more pleasure.
Alienated thus from self and others, the individual in question begins to lose the very notion of the dignity of the human person, and either with contempt, numb indifference or crazed lust does he (or she) behold others. No longer are they breathing and living people like the individual, but they are just pieces of meat, figments that thrill the retinas, for the individual himself has degraded himself to just a piece of meat, to a figment.
Such an individual may be lead to more baser acts, even criminal behavior, just as exemplified by Bundy.
In most cases, however, those who are caught in the vice of pornography do not become criminals (in the eyes of preset day civil law, that is), but give themselves over to a perpetual torpor of sɛҳuąƖ abuse that lulls them to a state of mediocrity, bereft of any authentic interior life, with only naturalistic and materialistic goals and aspirations. Morality is relevant and real only insofar as it useful and practical for them, and they lose the correct notion of religion, either giving up religion altogether or seeking it in idolatry, heresy, schism, or just plain crazy-town cults.
These are the sorts of chaps who may end up as educators, as politicians, as voters, as consumers, as editors of publications, &c. This is why we have the sort of culture and government we have.
Topic: The Horrors of Pornography (Read 4689 times)