Watching pornography is similar to a nuclear explosion: if the initial explosion doesn’t kill you the fallout eventually will. And just like radio active fallout can take years to do you in, so can porn viewing slowly eat away at everything that is righteous in your life.
You say that it only concerns you and nobody else. Wrong! If nudity wasn’t wrong in God’s eyes in general, then he wouldn’t have provided a covering for Adam and Eve, now would He.
C.S.Lewis explains it better in his ship convoy illustration from his Mere Christianity book. In order for the ship not to bump into each other, each has to be seaworthy in its own right. Can your ship remain seaworthy if it’s continually engaged in something is contrary to God’s will? I think not.
FYI: Being a Christian and a visual artist (painter), I’ve often have had to wrestle with the difference between porn and mere nudity. It’s my contention that porn’s intention is to unquestionably arouse the sex intention of its views. This isn’t necessarily so with say a painter’s depiction of a female nude form. And a single painting of such is significantly different from a moving visual sexual act as in a porn video. Furthermore, the drawing the female nude is a wonderful way to experience the beauty of one of God’s most treasured creations–women.
Yes, fine art painters can and will claim artistic license with reference to painting nudes without second guessing themselves as to its righteousness or not. As for me, now in my golden years, I’m seeing more reason to not paint nudes at all, if by doing so negatively influences any of my Christian brother and/or sisters.
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