Can thier be a reduction of Pornography...

The question should read:

Can thier be a reduction in pornography with the common Christian conception of sex and self image?

After studying the New Testament (Paul in particular) and St. Augustine - I started to see a correlation. The body is evil.

St. Paul is obsessed with sin. He killed Christians for a living when younger so I can see why. He talks about how he knows how to do right - he knows what is right - but he is compelled to sin. He concludes it must be something in him that causes this sin. This he reads all the way back into Adam and Eve's Felix Culpa by saying that the wages of sin are death.

St. Augustine, also obsessed with sin due to his pre-christian sexual relations and other things, continues on this concept that sin is something of the body and not the soul. Sin has two components Ignorance and Concupiscience (wrong desire). He goes so far as to say that infants are born sinful and hate but lack the strength to do something about it.

This concept of sin (sin of the flesh) leads the Catholic church to condemn any sexual act outside of marriage and even go so far as to mandate positions of sexuals acts during certain historical edicts.

I have to believe, since the Roman Catholic Empire was the ONLY system of education for 1300 years in the western world that this concept of sex was disseminated to all of the western worlds ancestory.

This leads, often, to a very prudish and restrictive outcome in most American households that sex is something that goes on, no one talks about it public, with the lights out and are ashamed of. In Texas the state mandated system of sex ed is optional and only allows abstainence to be taught. I heard on AM radio (at 4 in the afternoon) that anything else is a homosexual adjenda and should be removed from the public schools. THe thought went - that anything but abstenence was considred deviant and the agenda of homosexuals. (but I digress).

With this view of sex and the current emphasis on morality (it decides elections now more than ever) is the Christian desire to lessen the amount of pornography in America - wouldn't it be more efficient if it removed the stigma around sex, increased awareness of healthy sex, and improved the body image and self esteem of its young men and women?

It just seems to me that there is a direct correlation between what we think of our bodies, what we think of sex, and how much people are willing to be treated the way people are treated in pornographic publications.

I have to think that the self image of our youth has a lot to do with the most predominant religious system in America.

Thoughts?

TTF