We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. When Josh Duggar , the former reality show star who has spent most of the summer dealing with the fallout from the revelation of the sexual abuse he committed as a teenager , was implicated in the Ashley Madison hack as having pursued extramarital affairs, he issued a public apology that very day. Perhaps strangely to many, both men blamed a similar culprit for why they did what they did: pornography. Duggar later edited the mention of pornography out of his apology. This prompted some degree of snark and amusement on the part of both the secular left and gossip blogs, particularly in the case of Duggar.

This is the most polarizing and sensitive subject out there today. There has always been masturbation. There has always been sexual desire. There has always been outlets and imagery for sexual desire.

There is nothing wrong with being curious about sex or liking it. The problem is when people decide to act upon those urges and commit the crime of rape. But when you participate in the porn industry - when you watch porn - you step out of God's wisdom in favor of a way that seems right to you. You've set yourself up as a better judge and provider than God, and this is always a sin.

At the same time, people have very different and very strong views about it. In general, watching and masturbating to ethically-produced porn is a harm-free safer sex practice with no direct negative effects on your physical or mental health. Janet Brito tells O. It is best when there is an awareness that it is a form of entertainment and not necessarily the same IRL.