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This really is a beautiful and persuasive discussion of pornography. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/pornography-human-humane/
"Reducing the human person to an instrument for our pleasure is to wish in our hearts that they simply did not exist as persons."
"Beneath pornography is the supposition that the mere fact of our desire for a woman makes us worthy of her. And so, not being bound by any kind of norm, desire must proceed endlessly."
"Pornography trades on the hope that we will be desired: we believe that the woman looking back at us wants us, that she is “ours” in the way a spouse might one day become."
c.f.: https://christandpopculture.com/learned-lust-beauty-flickr-voyeur/
c.f.: https://christandpopculture.com/learned-lust-beauty-flickr-voyeur/
"The face-to-face character of desire is not meant to be displayed, but enjoyed."
"Curiosity is content with the image; but loving attention needs bodies. The curious has not the patience required for sustained consideration, much less the openness to the consuming immersiveness of wondrous rapture."
I don't want to spoil it. But it's really good. Take and read: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/pornography-human-humane/
In so many ways pornography epitomizes the sickness of our age. It combines radical individualism, consumption, technique, industrialization, commodification, choice, disembodiment, hyperreality, disposability, violence, exponential growth of data, unrestrained technology.
Also: restlessness, depression, anxiety, desperation for approval.
