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Old 02-07-2007, 01:16 AM   #17
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A couple of points:

At times, women in the Church are being patronized.

At times, men in the Church are being bullied.

Porn addiction and prudishness can be mutually reinforcing. These problems are also embedded in what I would call a Mormon reification of gender roles, a habit some of us have picked up from the Victorians. As a man who has exactly zero interest in pornography, and who finds it not at all tempting or interesting, I find the frequency with which the subject is addressed rather tedious. I must be in the minority on this. I find women quite attractive; pictures or videos or whatever, not in the least. In my book, from a scriptural standpoint the starting place for dealing with these issues is 1 Cor. 7:3-5.

There is a generational component to how Church leadership is dealing with these things (and not). This has been and always will be the case when human beings are involved.
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