Porn

[FineChina]

Okay. Porn is porn. Sex is what constitutes porn. Having a picture of a woman in a medical book is not porn! NOw if someone use it as a porn object than that's the person. That person is just being a pervert! So to answer your question; no a medical book showing naked men and women is not porn. Point blank.

[DarkNebulaWelder]

There is a difference between appreciating beauty... Nude art for instance, in my opinion, isn't "porn"...

Ah finally, another Christian who thinks this! I love art and making art and often times just drawing the beauty of the human body is enough in itself for a wonderful peice. God has created us all beautiful - it is porn that tries to do the opposite of what God intended by making nudity a dirty thing.

Luke;

True, but our condition after the Fall pretty much twisted man's response towards God's beautiful Creation.

The first thing Adam and Eve did after they sinned was to seek physical covering. This indicates to me that there is something innately wrong about viewing nudity, no matter how "innocent."

There was no pornography going on in the Garden, and yet the 2 of them were still ashamed. There is something in the human psyche that deems it wrong.

I think that God is trying to tell us to stay away from the naked body....PERIOD!! Do not defile it....not even with your eyes.

[Fady4Jesus]

It's the usage of naked human body in an erotic way with erotic clothes and positions

[tsth]

I find it interesting that the word "porn" is derived from the Greek word "pornos" that is used in the Scriptures for "fornication/fornicators", which would be anyone who uses his/her body in a sexual way that was not defined acceptable by God.

In other words, anybody who uses sex in an unlawful manner, which would be outside of marriage. (fornication)

Sex was not for the unmarried, but for the married.

Strong's Number: 4205 Browse Lexicon

Original Word Word Origin

povrno� from pernemi (to sell, akin to the base of (4097))

Transliterated Word TDNT Entry

Pornos 6:579,918

Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech

por'-nos Noun Masculine

Definition

a man who prostitutes his body to another's lust for hire

a male prostitute

a man who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator

King James Word Usage - Total: 10

fornicator 5, whoremonger 5

KJV Verse Count

1 Corinthians 4

Ephesians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 2

Revelation 2

http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/...amp;version=kjv

In His Love,

Suzanne

[ParanoidAndroid]

Coming from a background in Theatre, I maybe have a more controversial understanding of pornography and nakedness. Sometimes on the stage, being naked is a viable and theatrically compelling technique. To use an example, if you are depicted a person on stage who is alone and frightened and vulnerable, making them naked can be a shocking experience for the audience, because it not only shows the character's inner turmoil, but outer embarassment also. It is not compelling or sexual, it is confronting and sad. It is artistic. However, if done incorrectly, nudity on stage can be just plain old smut (or pornography, in other terms).

I was recently roped into going out for a night on the town. I wasn't sure what to expect, and when I got to the place where we were headed, there was a series of performances involving scantily clad women. There were three short performances that i got to see. One of them involved nudity (breasts showing), the other two kept their bikinis on. However, two of them, I thought were artistically fantastic, including the naked one. The third one, which kept their clothes ON, I thought had no redeeming features and was just smut for the sake of it. Even though they had a bikini on, I'd consider that porn.

Just my two cents worth, though.

~ Regards, PA

[None]

our condition after the Fall pretty much twisted man's response towards God's beautiful Creation.

The first thing Adam and Eve did after they sinned was to seek physical covering. This indicates to me that there is something innately wrong about viewing nudity, no matter how "innocent."

There was no pornography going on in the Garden, and yet the 2 of them were still ashamed. There is something in the human psyche that deems it wrong.

I think that God is trying to tell us to stay away from the naked body....PERIOD!! Do not defile it....not even with your eyes.

Our whole human race was born under the awareness of our nakedness.

Also, no amount of "viewing nakedness innocently" can undo that damage to our innocence, medical field or no medical field. That logic is flawed, severely, I've seen too many examples of the exact opposite happening, having worked in that field, myself.

About 7 years ago, I spoke with a man trying to convince me that his views on nudity were not wrong. He told me that he had seen so many naked women, been to so many strip clubs, it no longer had an effect on him. He said he prefered to see women with clothes on now. - that was then - Recently, I spoke with his wife who told me that the only way he can be with her is by spending some time, first, in his closet of porn collections. (different man than screensaver example)Apparently, his theory was wrong. There are many lies out there, telling us it's ok "sometimes". This is to open the door, just a teeny bit, to let in the much larger sin. And thinking you can control this "little" sin and not let it control you is like trying to control a lit match in a gas tank.

[tsth]

To me, porn perverts the God-given natural unity between husband and wife, the same way that murder perverts the act of natural death.

Porn brings violation and perversion.

In His Love,

Suzanne