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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ
In a sense I'm not blaming the Church. These tendencies are present in the larger culture (which has Victorian influences too). But Mormon's susceptiblilty to pornography has a particular place in the larger nationwide/worldwide epidemic. The smutty world rhetoric doesn't get us anywhere. Our particular problem has more than a little to do with Mormon's post-polygamy Victorian Uncle Tom-ism. It was the Victorians who, after the civil war, came after us for polygamy and eventually kicked our ass. Like bootlickers we've been reinscribing ourselves with their flawed sexual dynamic ever since and were paying the price for that. The cult of true womanhood rhetoric, the angel-whore dichotomy, the priesthood leader as the great Western ideal of 19th century masculinity, the repression of discussion about the sexual deviance of polygamy, it goes on and on. Have you ever noticed that sex differences are reified by many North American Mormons for their own sake and with little reflection? It's nothing short of astrological. People go to this stuff and then try to forge their identities from it. It's just like someone discovering she's a Gemini and then trying to refashion her personality to fit the description in the book.
Take a moment and consider what I've written. There's more than a little truth to it.
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I don't argue there's no truth to what you say. Certainly there's something cultural to the obsession with porn. I've read that porn addictions are more present in strict, religious families in general. I may disagree a little with you in how or why Mormons should be different than other strict religions in frequency of porn addiction. I see the dynamic as similar across the board and don't know much how to change it.
I'm no expert, but about the only way I see that you could lessen the strangle hold porn has on our youth is to tell them sex before marriage is OK. Then they'd be too busy with the real thing like the rest of their peers to be concerned with porn.