| incest, bestiality, group sex, bisexuality, necrophilia and other aberrations. Pornography, to be sure, has become more sick and violent. Ultimately, it destroys all human qualities from one who becomes addicted to it. An example is the loss of compassion towards women expressed by Craig, a rapist and porn addicted in an interview. "They were made for sex and that’s all. Use them and throw them away," he said. Another example is from Thomas Schiro, who was convicted of the rape and murder of a 28-year-old woman, unsuccessfully raised the defense "pornography made me do it." An expert in the case testified that continual exposure to hard-core pornography creates "a person who no longer distinguishes between violence and rape, or violence and sex."
To inform his people about the invasion of pornography in their daily living, Pope John Paul II warned his flock, "by reducing the body to an instrument for the gratification of the senses, pornography frustrates authentic moral growth and undermines the development of mature and healthy relationships." If society allows pornography to flourish, young teenagers today think it is "OKAY" to hold a girl down and force her to have intercourse. When did the moral values of this society deteriorate to such a low level? |