412 PORNOGRAPHY

YOUCAT Lesson 412

YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth

412  Why is the production and consumption of pornography a sin against charity?

Someone who misuses love by detaching human sexuality from the intimacy of a committed, loving relationship between two spouses and turns it into commercial goods sins seriously.  Anyone who produces, buys, or consumes pornographic materials violates human dignity and seduces others to sin.  [2523]

World map of pornography (18+) laws   Green: Pornography legal      Yellow: Pornography legal under some restrictions      Brown: Pornography illegal      Grey: Data unavailable  (People  Sin  Pornography). …..412

Pornography is a degenerate form of prostitution, for here too there is the suggestion that man can get “love” for money.  Models and actors, producers and distributors are equally Involved in this serious offense against charity and human dignity.  Anyone who consumes pornographic materials, visits pornographic websites, or participates in pornographic events finds himself in the wider circle of prostitution and supports the dirty, billion-dollar business of selling sex.

2523 There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies. --Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition