Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Christians and Pornography

Most people seem to assume that Christian Domestic Discipline fiction appeals mainly to Christians. I'm not sure that's true. My guess is that the people I write about - conservative Christians - are not reading this stuff. I might have some readers who are mainstream Christians, but I doubt their attraction to this type of fiction has much to do with their faith.

Now I'm also not sure I would consider what I write to be pornographic... and yet... it is definitely sexual for those who lean that way. It might even lead to self-pleasure, so... I don't know. Christian DD involves spanking, but it doesn't usually involve sex and definitely not explicit descriptions of sex. So it can't be porn, right? It can't even be considered erotic. 

So we've established that the audience for CDD is probably not Christian and that it isn't really pornographic. That makes my next question completely irrelevant, but I'll ask it anyway. It's my blog, and I can do what I want. 

Do Christians use porn? I'm thinking that in conservative groups, any use of pornography is done on the down-low and its discovery would be a problem. I'm thinking of a Kirk Cameron movie I watched once where he destroyed his computer with a baseball bat because it was tempting him to look at naked women. 

However if I went to my mainstream, protestant church building and asked a pastor about it, what would he or she say? 

It seems to me that the human body is made for sex and that viewing (or reading) sexual material fits right into our natural inclinations. And yet, too much porn can be a problem. If you are viewing porn instead of viewing, for example, your wife then maybe you should scale back. I've also heard of porn addiction. So yeah, if you are looking at naked people instead of going to work, that can't be good. And by extension if you are reading stories about spanking instead of going to work, that's a problem too. 

But you're not doing that, are you?
I personally think that sexual materials can be healthy for a relationship and can be useful for us lonely single guys and gals. I don't see the benefit, spiritual or otherwise, in denying your sexual nature. I just think you should be using it responsibly, and frankly masturbation is a whole lot more responsible than random hook-ups. Reading spanking fiction is even better. 

Rebeckah


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