PORNOGRAPHY
1. “Please
heed these warnings. Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our
efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of
pornography that threatens our spirituality, our marriages, and our children.”
-Elder
Oaks (Pornography) April 2005
2.
“Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted
food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal
exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In
contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic
pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call
a brain. The brain won’t vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain
subject to recall, flashing its perverted images across your mind and drawing
you away from the wholesome things in life… And young women, please understand
that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming
pornography to some of the men who see you.”
-Elder
Oaks (Pornography) April 2005
3. “Pornography
is like a raging storm, destroying individuals and families, utterly ruining
what was once wholesome and beautiful. … The time has come for any one of us
who is so involved to pull himself out of the mire.”35 If you are tempted to
violate the law of chastity in any form, follow Joseph of Egypt’s example, who
“fled, and got him out.”
-Gordon B.
Hinckley (A Tragic Evil Among Us) October 2004
4. We hope
that our parents and leaders will not tolerate pornography. It is really
garbage, but today is peddled as normal and satisfactory food. Many writers seem
to take delight in polluting the atmosphere with it. Seemingly, it cannot be
stopped by legislation. There is a link between pornography and the low, sexual
drives and perversions. We live in a culture which venerates the orgasm,
streaking, trading wives, and similar crazes. How low can humans plunge! We
pray with our Lord that we may be kept from being in the world. It is sad that
decent people are thrown into a filthy area of mental and spiritual pollution.
We call upon all of our people to do all in their power to offset this ugly
revolution.
-Spencer
W. Kimball (Fortify Your Homes Against Evil) April 1979
5. In our
day the dreadful influence of pornography is like unto a plague
sweeping across the world, infecting one here and one there, relentlessly
trying to invade every home, most frequently through the husband and father.
The effect of this plague can be, unfortunately often is, spiritually fatal.
Lucifer seeks to disrupt “the great plan of redemption,”11 “the great plan of
happiness.”
-Boyd K.
Packer “Cleansing the Inner Vessel” October 2012
6. The
priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of
pornography—and it is a plague—if you are succumbing to its influence. If one
is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an
addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it
to combat evil influences.
-Boyd K.
Packer (Cleansing the Inner Vessel) October 2012
7. Like
thieves in the night, unwelcome thoughts can and do seek entrance to our minds.
But we don’t have to throw open the door, serve them tea and crumpets, and then
tell them where the silverware is kept! (You shouldn’t be serving tea anyway.)
Throw the rascals out! Replace lewd thoughts with hopeful images and joyful
memories; picture the faces of those who love you and would be shattered if you
let them down. More than one man has been saved from sin or stupidity by
remembering the face of his mother, his wife, or his child waiting somewhere
for him at home. Whatever thoughts you have, make sure they are welcome in your
heart by invitation only. As an ancient poet once said, let will be your
reason… Like Joseph in the presence of Potiphar’s wife,4 just run—run as far away
as you can get from whatever or whoever it is that beguiles you. And please,
when fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.
8. How can
a man, particularly a priesthood bearer, not think of the damage emotionally
and spiritually caused to women from such abhorrent activity? The participation
in pornography in any of its lurid forms is a manifestation of unbridled
selfishness.
-Richard
G. Scott “The Sanctity of Womanhood” May 2000
9.
Pornography is especially dangerous and addictive. Curious exploration of
pornography can become a controlling habit, leading to coarser material and to
sexual transgression. Avoid pornography at all costs.
-Thomas S.
Monson “Preparation Brings Blessings” May 2010
10.
Strangely enough, it may be that the simplest and most powerful prevention and
cure for pornography, or any unclean act, is to ignore and avoid it. Delete
from the mind any unworthy thought that tries to take root. Once you have
decided to remain clean, you are asserting your God-given agency. And then, as
President Smith counseled, “Don’t look back.”
-Elder
Boyd K. Packer (Cleansing the Inner Vessel) October 2010
Position
Statement:
Sadly,
this is a rampant evil in our time. It is readily available for anyone. The
hurt and pain from it makes me so sad. I am grateful for leaders that warn us
about it repeatedly to help keep us from hurting ourselves and those who love
us. I know that it must be avoided at all costs and am committed to ALWAYS
doing so.
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