The culture of pornography and the morality of sexual condemnation are two sides of the same coin. In people like Jimmy Swaggart and Reverend Hazzard, we see people who in their very lives have dramatized the larger cultural splits. Their tragedies manifest the cultural failure to bring the pieces together into a whole that embraces both the sexual energies of the human being and the need to channel our energies in accordance with a life-serving concept of the human good.
So we should begin to conceive of what porno would look like it if were part of a WHOLE (not split) relation to our sexuality. If we are pretty much agreed –new agers and evangelicals—that fulfilled loving sexuality is an important part of our relation to the sacred, perhaps we can strive together to envision what sexually arousing media would look like in a culture that is whole.
If sexuality is connected with the sacred, and if sexual arousal can be part of the gift of a life in touch with the sacred, is there any reason we should not have media that can open up the channels for us to receive that gift?
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