You’ve probably heard the metaphor about boiling a frog in a pot. If you put him into a pot of boiling hot water, he would jump out immediately. But if you put him into a pot of cold water and gradually increase the temperature, he will be boiled before he realizes what happens to him.
We are the frog. Pornographers have been turning up the heat since the 60’s, but we haven’t taken a strong enough stand for sexual purity. We allow the world to embarrass us and tell us we are over-reacting. Sex researchers tell us that we are repressed and that we should loosen up a little.
As the Church, we can’t seem to come up with a good argument to counter the “consenting adults” line of thought, but even if it were true that we should let the world do what they are going to do, it’s not just consenting adults who are being impacted. The pornography industry has an insatiable appetite for revenue, and consenting adults aren’t a big enough market. They are coming after our children and anyone else they can reach whether we like it or not.
While pornographers may be working for individual gain, there is an undeniable coordination to the whole affair. Behind the pornographers is our Enemy, and while pornographers might think that they are autonomous, they are really serving him. Satan is seeding us. He’s seeding our children. He knows if he can get us to view it once, our curiosity will often lead us back. When we see how easy it is to find, we are more likely to try it again. A small taste leads to a meal, and before long, our appetite increases beyond what we can get on the free sites.
