{"id":36209,"date":"2016-08-29T17:33:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36209"},"modified":"2016-08-29T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T23:33:16","slug":"rethinking-mormons-and-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/rethinking-mormons-and-porn.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rethinking Mormons and Porn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36210\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Mormon_Family_Russells_Polygamy_in_Low_Life.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36210\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36210\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Mormon_Family_Russells_Polygamy_in_Low_Life.jpg\" alt=\"Polygamous family in Kaysville, around 1888.\" width=\"595\" height=\"389\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The typical repressed patriarchal Mormon family. (Wikimedia CC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For years now, critics of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> have chortled with rapturous joy over a report indicating that Utah ranks first in the nation for the consumption of online pornography.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This, they\u2019ve suggested, proves that <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a> are sexually repressed and psychologically warped\u00a0hypocrites, and that Mormonism is therefore . . . well, somehow <em>bad<\/em>. \u00a0Or (and these claims don\u2019t have to make sense or be fully compatible) it\u00a0shows that Mormonism is unhealthy, doesn\u2019t produce good social results, or whatever. \u00a0Certainly it deprives Mormons of any claim to represent moral living.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what if the report was <em>wrong<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virtuoussociety.com\/2014\/04\/16\/rethinking-mormons-and-porn-utah-40th-in-us-in-new-porn-data\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">This article<\/a> claims precisely that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dang.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 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. \u00a0 This, they\u2019ve suggested, proves that Mormons are sexually repressed and psychologically warped\u00a0hypocrites, and that Mormonism is therefore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Rethinking Mormons and Porn&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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