If you ever hope to find your soul mate and "make love", I suggest you don't turn sex into a spectator sport.
Be a rebel. Stand up for sex as God intended. Stand up against porn.
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Jesus Christ clarified and reinforced God's commandments and made it clear: become perfectly "one" (echad) with one person forever or live your life like you don't have genitals. (Matthew 19:1-12)
If you don't have genitals, bye-bye libido; you won't be pleasuring yourself while you watch other people fornicate.
How "intimate" or "unifying" or "sacred" can something be if you share it with multiple people and engage in it as a spectator sport?
How can it ever be the sacred, perfect, indivisible union that God intended?
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Although lust is as old as the fall of man, people survived without pornography for thousands of years. Why should it be "normal" or "expected" that men (or women) use porn?
Pornography wasn't always considered an acceptable thing. It used to be sold in stores with the covers of the magazines hidden. It was something shameful. Simply, the use of pornography has become prevalent enough for long enough that people aren't shocked by it.
It's just something that many have gotten used to and justified.
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom."
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Like cigarettes, sometimes it doesn't matter if something is obviously unhealthy and destructive. If something provides some kind of pleasurable/desirable effect, even if it is a scientifically proven to be deadly, some people will keep doing it and will make excuses for it.
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Humor me by considering this metaphor.
If a soldier intentionally pushes a button to command a drone, hundreds of miles a way, to kill someone; did that soldier make the kill? Is he responsible? Or is he not responsible because he/she didn't stab the enemy with a bayonet and there is no blood on his hands?
I'm glad your computer screen/television/magazine makes you feel more comfortable but it doesn't make you any more righteous. Would you pay prostitutes to have sexual intercourse in your living room so that you could watch and pleasure yourself?
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
-The words of Jesus Christ from the Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:27-30
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Would you want your husband or wife to work in porn? How about your girlfriend or boyfriend? Would you want your brother or sister to work in porn? How about your son or daughter?
Forgetting the golden rule are you?
"Do unto others as you would have done unto you."- Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31
If you wouldn't want your husband/wife or girlfriend/boyfriend, or brother/sister, or son/daughter to sell their bodies and be violated/defiled for other people's sexual pleasure- don't be part of the violation and defilement of others. That is malicious prejudice. Just because you don't know certain people personally, their bodies aren't sacred? Their dignity isn't worth anything to you? Their honor?
What about your honor?
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 12:10
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone.
1 Peter 2:16-17
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Hebrews 13:4
I've shared this picture before, but I just love it. Source here.
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