“Rethinking Mormons and Porn”

“Rethinking Mormons and Porn” August 29, 2016

 

Polygamous family in Kaysville, around 1888.
The typical repressed patriarchal Mormon family. (Wikimedia CC)

 

For years now, critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have chortled with rapturous joy over a report indicating that Utah ranks first in the nation for the consumption of online pornography.

 

This, they’ve suggested, proves that Mormons are sexually repressed and psychologically warped hypocrites, and that Mormonism is therefore . . . well, somehow bad.  Or (and these claims don’t have to make sense or be fully compatible) it shows that Mormonism is unhealthy, doesn’t produce good social results, or whatever.  Certainly it deprives Mormons of any claim to represent moral living.

 

But what if the report was wrong?

 

This article claims precisely that.

 

Dang.

 

 


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