Why pornography is harmful - English Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
One of my best friends, you know, he's not He's not really religious at all. So, you know, he's gotten into pornography and stuff he told me probably like a year or two ago that he just like he just does not have the ability to like really Fall in love with the girl like he would date a girl and it was like a few months and like He just couldn't get himself to really like care about her and he told me I didn't even suggest it. He told me that he 100 thought it because of pornography because he's like so used to seeing these girls like doing all the stuff that you know, he Thinks it's cool and he doesn't really get that in real life And so he even he was the one that came to me and told me pornography is hurting his life so It messes with your expectations and messes with your future relationships
Video 2 Transcript
Pornography is harmful because I can tell you from personal experiences it definitely skews your perception of the opposite sex. It turns them into objects for sex and that's not what they're meant for. It just puts blinders on your eyes and just makes you think about one thing only.
Video 3 Transcript
As young men, we hear a lot growing up about the danger of pornography. It's definitely a real thing, and we see it every day more and more as technology becomes more widespread. But I love what Elder Boyd K. Packer taught on the subject in his address, titled To Young Men Only. He refers to this sacred power that we have to procreate, especially for young men, as a little factory.
Video 4 Transcript
God has given us commandments because he knows what it's like to be a human being and he knows how hard things are. And he gave us those commandments so that we could navigate life more easily. They're like life hacks. They make things easier. And one of his commandments is the law of chastity. It keeps us clean and it keeps us happy. Included in that is pornography. We shouldn't be watching pornography because it actually really hurts our brain. It affects our pleasure centers in inappropriate ways and it makes us sad. It hurts our personal relationships with people and it makes it more difficult for us to have the kind of emotional and romantic relationships that we truly deserve.
Video 5 Transcript
Pornography is horrible. It's so bad. It's a drug. Honestly, it's addictive. It gets in your head and it makes you just... you just fall to the carnal desires of you and the natural man in you and you just don't see people as people. You see them as objects and I just think it should be avoided at all costs, especially for children. So whatever you can do to help avoid that for them, that'd be great.
Video 6 Transcript
So once upon a time, people could see why pornography was harmful because you had to invest so much money into buying the magazines, the movies, to go different places, and so there's that side effect. But for the 21st century, that seems to have been cut out because it seems to be free, you can get it online, it's the push of a button. But pornography is still harmful, it's still terrible. And I'd say the reason why it is the most harmful is because it removes you, you remove yourself from feeling God's love for you. It messes with your understanding of emotions and with love, and it removes yourself from true love with family and with friends and with the person that you will love for the rest of your life.
Video 7 Transcript
It rewires your brain. It puts these expectations into your marriage, your relationship that should not be there. It ruins your sexual experience with your partner. It truly does because it sets these expectations that are just not real. They're not real. It will ruin relationships and marriages. It will ruin families. It's an addiction and it's hard. It's hard to overcome but just ask God to give you the guidance to be able to overcome that temptation because it is a big one that I hear people talk about all the time. It's a very conflicted thing that some people say is not an addiction. It's not harmful but it most certainly is.
Video 8 Transcript
Pornography is very harmful because it causes strains in relationships and it goes against a fundamental truth which is that our families are the most important fundamental unit of society and families are the, have the possibility to be eternal and are the means by which God carries about his work. Pornography directly insults and violates that familial relationship and it is such a powerful, powerful temptation and urge for many because it does go directly against something so sacred and important that is the family.
Video 9 Transcript
In using pornography, you distance yourself from God. It is one of the easiest ways to lose many blessings, to feel miserable. It's one of the easiest ways to lose respect for women. If you're a woman, it's one of the easiest ways to lose respect for men. It is not part of God's plan that we use pornography, that we use it in any kind of shape or form. In fact, use of pornography can lead to other addictions. It can lead to drugs. It can lead to objectifying the opposite sex. It can lead to abuse, neglect. And when you're in a marriage, you won't look at your spouse the same way, other than how you look at the pornographic material.
Video 10 Transcript
I think pornography is harmful because of what it does to the family. I also think it's harmful for what it can do to the individuals as it weakens their mental resolve and interferes with their day-to-day activities and their ability to be productive. It's one of Satan's great tools that he's used to destroy families and bring down individuals as well.
Video 11 Transcript
Pornography is harmful in many different ways and even if you take religion out of it and put aside your religious beliefs about pornography, I have learned while I've taken different family life classes and psychology classes that pornography can actually alter your brain and the way that you think about sexual pleasure and things like that and it will ultimately cause you a lot of trouble whenever you get married or whenever you are having intimacy with your spouse to have altered expectations, unrealistic expectations and it can also cause addiction and just ultimately cause a lot of harm in your relationship and even within yourself if you do it or you watch pornography. It can harm you not only morally and whenever it comes to your religion but it can also really harm you psychologically as well.
Video 12 Transcript
Pornography is harmful because it sets up your expectations so that they are unrealistic. You cannot see what is beautiful in the world because you've been convinced that there are more beautiful things that you don't have. Pornography is a relationship, yes, but it's an empty one because it's not an actual person on the other side. It's a relationship with the screen. It's a relationship with a person who, if they are paying any attention, they are paying attention to thousands of other people who are addicted and they will never be able to relate to you personally. The reason it's bad is that it abuses your body's reward pathway. Your brain is designed to tell you when things are good by rewarding you. That's why it feels good after you go for a run. That's why eating good food feels good. But it's very easy to abuse.
