Pornography’s Deadly Grip on Modern Marriages
The steady and disturbing rise in choking and strangulation during sex is a logical result of a culture deeply poisoned by porn and violence.
This essay was published by Catholic World Report. Special thanks to them for being willing to tackle this important (yet difficult) topic. You may read it in full (freely) there. The introduction follows:
Pornography is an inversion of conjugal love, and it is becoming ever more extreme and violent. As pornography has become more widely accepted and trivialized in secular culture, its most dangerous elements have increasingly been adopted. With that adoption, the underlying ways in which men and women relate to one another have become disordered, often in very disturbing ways.
England has an entire organization called The Institute for Addressing Strangulation (IFAS), because the choking of women has become so pervasive. It is government-funded, and in addition to studying the prevalence of asphyxiation, the group tries to adjust its social acceptability. Choking during sex has been normalized as a result of its incorporation in pornography. When surveyed, the degree to which this has become socially permissible becomes clear…
Thank you Sarah. Tough topic. We have to focus Light on all of the dark areas of human existence just to stand a chance.
You will appreciate my podcast here on Pornography.
https://open.substack.com/pub/soberchristiangentlemanpodcast/p/s2-ep-63-be-the-change-pornography?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=31s3eo