YOUCAT Question n. 412 - Why is the production and consumption of pornography a sin against charity?
(Youcat
answer) Someone who misuses love by detaching human sexuality from the intimacy
of a committed, loving relationship between two spouses and turns it into
commercial goods sins seriously. Anyone who produces, buys, or consumes
pornographic materials violates human dignity and seduces others to sin.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2354) Pornography consists in removing real or
simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display
them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it
perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It
does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the
public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit
for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy
world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and
distribution of pornographic materials.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Pornography is a degenerate form of
prostitution, for here too there is the suggestion that man can get “love” for
money. Models and actors, producers and distributors are equally involved in
this serious offense against charity and human dignity. Anyone who consumes
pornographic materials, visits pornographic websites, or participates in
pornographic events finds himself in the wider circle of prostitution and
supports the dirty, billion-dollar business of selling sex.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC
2523) There is a
modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example,
against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain
advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far
in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which
makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of
prevailing ideologies.
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