I am using a pseudonym to respond to this for reasons that will become
obvious. The church is doing more in this area than you might be aware
of. They just put out a new pamphlet on the subject called "Let Virtue
Garnish Thy Thoughts." They also have a 12 step addiction recovery
program that now has group meetings in many areas specifically for
pornography and other sexual sins. There are links to the recovery
program and the new pamphlet at
www.combatingpornography.lds.org . I
have heard people at church complain that all the church talks about
anymore is pornography. Well, they should just be thankful that they
don't need to hear it. Many more people need to hear it than most people
realize. I have had problems with porn in the past and I attend one of
the church's recovery meetings in Utah County. There are meetings nearly
every night of the week throughout the valley. There are several just at
BYU. I went to a meeting last night and there were probably 50 people
there (they were split into two different rooms of about 25 men each,
plus there was a separate room with a meeting for the women). One person
said that he was impressed that there were that many honest men in Utah
County.
> Since people are (inevitably) throwing pornography into the discussion
> on violent films, there's something I've observed and wondered about.
>
> We know that a problem with pornography is on a rise within the church.
> We know that because it's become a regular staple in General Conference
> topics every half a year, as well as local sermons. It's a veritable
> D-Day-sized attack on pornography. And this has been going on for some
> time now.
>
> So are we fixing the problem?
>
> I don't see it. The sermons get more and more ubiquitious and vehement
> as time goes on. I don't get the sense that we're fixing it at all--on
> the contrary, I get the sense that it's only getting worse.
>
> So why do we keep trying the same strategy more and more that already
> isn't working?
>
> And if what we're doing isn't working, what is the cure for pornography
> addiction?
>
> --
> D. Michael Martindale
> dmichael@???
>
>
