(What's the Big Deal about Pornography? A Guide for the Internet Generation, Jill C. Manning, Ph.D.).
"In addition to the research-based consequences..., pornography use may cause feelings of guilt, inadequacy, and shame. It will keep one from living a spiritual life and will interfere with reaching one's potential. It is a saboteur of hopes, dreams, and aspirations."
(Why Stay Away From Pornography, Lds.org link).
(What's the Big Deal about Pornography? A Guide for the Internet Generation, Jill C. Manning, Ph.D. )
"One of the most damning influences on earth, one that has caused uncountable grief, suffering, heartache, and destroyed marriages, is the onslaught of pornography in all of its vicious, corroding, destructive forms." (Richard G. Scott, "The Sanctity of Womanhood," Ensign Nov. 2008, originally from an April 2000 general conference address).
"Whether it be through the printed page, movies, television, obscene lyrics, the telephone, or on a flickering personal computer screen, pornography is overpoweringly addictive and severely damaging. This potent tool of Lucifer degrades the mind, heart, and the soul of any who use it. All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so, will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help."
(Richard G. Scott, "The Sanctity of Womanhood," Ensign Nov. 2008, originally from an April 2000 general conference address).
"How can a man, particularly a priesthood bearer, not think of the damage emotionally and spiritually caused to women from such abhorrent activity? The participation in pornography in any of its lurid forms is a manifestation of unbridled selfishness."
(Richard G. Scott, "The Sanctity of Womanhood," Ensign Nov. 2008, originally from an April 2000 general conference address).
"Satan knows that those powerful emotions can be aroused by things you could see, hear, or touch. When stirred, those emotions can be used to lead one to destructive experimentation, then to serious transgressions. (Continue to next paragraph)
He uses pornography through videotapes, movies, magazines, computer images, or contaminated music for this purpose. Close your eyes, ears, mind, and heart to it. Unchecked, it would surely grow unrelentingly from initial curiosity step-by-step to become a raging monster. That demon would wreck wholesome desires, worthy companionship, noble thoughts and acts until it could destroy you. (Continue to next paragraph)
Don’t lift the cover of salacious material in any form, and you will not be captured by it. If you have become entangled in that devastating web, stop immediately and seek help. Ask the Lord to guide you to that help and give you the strength to overcome that addictive habit." (Richard G. Scott, "The Power of Righteousness," Ensign Nov. 1998).
"Pornography is especially dangerous and addictive. Curious exploration of pornography can become a controlling habit, leading to coarser material and to sexual transgression. Avoid pornography at all costs." (Thomas S. Monson, "Preparation Brings Blessings," Ensign May 2010).
"Don’t be afraid to walk out of a movie, turn off a television set, or change a radio station if what’s being presented does not meet your Heavenly Father’s standards. In short, if you have any question about whether a particular movie, book, or other form of entertainment is appropriate, don’t see it, don’t read it, don’t participate." (Thomas S. Monson, "Preparation Brings Blessings," Ensign May 2010).
"Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, and the power of peer pressure cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams. (Continue to next paragraph)
Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.'" (Thomas S. Monson, "Standards of Strength", Ensign Oct. 2008).
“I fear this may be going on in some of your homes. It is vicious. It is lewd and filthy. It is enticing and habit-forming. It will take [you] down to destruction as surely as anything in this world. It is foul sleaze that makes its exploiters wealthy, its victims impoverished” (“Great Shall Be the Peace of Thy Children,” Ensign, Nov. 2000, 51).
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