Prabhupada, Honolulu, May 26, 1976: […] No brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya will do that. It is not etiquette. But because a sudra, now it is everywhere we can see, embracing, kissing, open to everyone. So young man, seeing this, how he can restrain, check his lusty desire? It is not possible. Kali- yuga is so fallen. If a young man sees another young man he’s enjoying with another young girl, then naturally his lusty desires increases. So these things are forbidden therefore. Full Lecture
Internet Pornography: A Cultural Plague
Along with all the wonderful uses of the Internet, there is another use that has been growing ever faster—that of commercialized pornography. But what are the effects of viewing sexually explicit pictures? Is it harmless? Is there any culturally redeeming value in the viewing of pornography?
by Sean Yarbrough, Tampa General Hospital, Florida
Uncensored pornographic material is available today to anyone with Internet access. Some sites offer pornographic newsletters that are deposited a few times each week into one’s electronic mailbox. With the advent of restriction-free, Web-based e-mail services, such material can be delivered into the in-boxes of anyone—young or old—without being detected.
In his book Slouching Towards Gomorrah, Judge Robert Bork comments on how this type of “entertainment” tears down society. After documenting some despicable tales offered on an Internet newsgroup featuring instructions for would-be child molesters, he notes that “such things can only tempt those who verge on such acts to take a greater interest in them” (p. 136).
Pornography—whether in print, on video or on the Internet—may push those who are having sexual problems over the edge. It is by the Internet, however, that the greatest damage seems likely.
With the advent of digital movies, the likelihood increases that such material will be consumed at a much higher rate. This is made apparent when one recognizes the explosion of pornographic films and profits at the time videocassettes began enabling customers to avoid adult theaters.
With the ability to download digital pornographic movies in the privacy of their own homes, those hooked on pornography can escape the potential embarrassment of being seen in public leaving an adult theater, browsing through X-rated films or facing a clerk.
Pornography is a sin
Driven by their lust for pleasure and given the privacy and means with which to seek it, more and more people will give in to sexual weakness and addiction. This, in turn, will destroy many relationships and prevent meaningful relationships from developing. It will impoverish and warp many who can’t stop themselves from seeking more and more perverse porn to try to satisfy their deepening addiction.
But pornography isn’t just a problem for those who succumb to its addictive influence. According to Jesus, the viewing of pornography is a sin.
Early in His public ministry, Jesus explained that “whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28). The seventh of God’s Ten Commandments says, “You shall not commit adultery,” and the 10th tells us not to covet, which includes extramarital sexual lust (Exodus 20:14, 17). And let’s be honest. People view pornography because it does create lust.
Radical individualism (unrestrained selfishness) is at the heart of today’s culture war. For decades America has been evolving into a materialistic, unrestrained, hedonistic society that puts selfish lusts above life and morality. The concept of liberty, upon which the United States was founded, has unfortunately been used to promote the corruption of moral standards and the degradation of the institutions that support them. The reason for this is simple: The push for unrestricted personal freedoms has no final goals. It simply moves away from restraint with no conceivable end.
This was not the intention of the founding fathers of the United States. When they wrote about liberty, they assumed that order and morality would be practiced and protected by the states with minimal intrusion by the federal government. And it was, until the recent attacks on our cultural institutions including marriage, family, religion, education and law. Today, these attacks on traditional institutions are occurring around the world.
Judge Bork explains: “The constant underestimation of their [i.e., traditional institutions’] value and the continual pressure for more individual autonomy necessarily weakened the restraints on individuals. The ideal slowly became the autonomous individual who stood in an adversarial relationship to any institution or group that attempted to set limits to acceptable thought and behavior. That process continues today, and hence we have an increasingly disorderly society” (p. 64).
A symptom of decline
Pornography contributes to America’s overall pattern of moral decline. Society increasingly rejects the self-discipline needed for education and marriage and instead embraces practices such as social (rather than scholastic) advancement and no-fault divorce. Sexual self-discipline is rejected as well, which can only lead to the lust for more self-gratification and indulgence.
Some maintain that government has no right to restrain individuals who are satisfying themselves—yet we all have to live with the effects of the people who engage in such acts. Although no one has “dropped dead” from viewing such material, Bork says it best when he responds, “No one ever dropped dead reading ‘Der Sturmer,’ the Nazi anti-semitic newspaper, but the culture it served caused six million Jews to drop dead” (p. 144).
The porn industry degrades women and men, destroys normal relationships, creates false expectations and perverts the true meaning for sex and family life.
Pornography is a sin in direct conflict with the value, in letter and in spirit, of monogamy and fidelity in marriage. Since marriage and family are the building blocks of any healthy society, pornography is clearly a disease that threatens our civilization. Protect yourself and your future by avoiding this cultural plague!
For more information on the causes and effects of pornography, see our article in The Good News. VT
About the Author
Sean Yarbrough is an occupational therapist with Tampa General Hospital’s spinal cord injury program and lives with his wife Kristin and their daughter Katie in Brandon, Florida.
pamho agtacbsp lust is the opposite side of love of god the end of all religions and the only one who can give eternal life or enjoyement which everyone is thirsty normally people get lusty due to the offences to god and his servants like happen to saubari muni in the srimad bhagavatam because of the aparadha against garuda the huge eagle that carry sri krsna on his back, the problem that we are facing with the modern society through the internet is out of the normal standard at the moment so i’m agreed with all of you the so called electronic progress help more the ghosts through the internet because they move faster through the waves of alfa beta teta without the phisical body so anyone who got the gross body can fell victim of pornography on internet if is not use to spread the glories of sri anata sesa which all the advanced prabhupadanuga bhaktas are doing around the world that’s another weapon of the demons also who try to destroy the citizen my make the brain polluted of rubbish against the spontaneous nature of the soul in the eternal service to krsna our only hopeness is to chant the holy name as much as we can because this age is full of distraction and the internet is the most serious distraction of this age if is not used in sri krsna service another point of view is tha whatever is not connect with sri guru and gauranga service is imperfect and therefore cause a lot troubles to the society by make innocent people to suffer the side effects of their material progress they kill the son of napoleon by make him to have sex with nice girls everyday so uncontrolled sex kill very fast all the citizen who are addict to that the only way to defeat this enemy is to chant hare krsna early in the morning with sincerity then we will be protect more then the karmi ys seva das haribol
pamho
agtACBSP,
maitunya agara the chain of sex life is to create fake images through the false reflection of the subtly body under the trick of the bodily concept of life trapped in that famous illusion called jivasya mohan aham mameti that’s sex material life,
LORD BRAHMA also had to leave his body on order of SRI KRSNA because lord brahma body got contaminate by the sexual desire the raksasa abused of the dead body of lord brahma then they eat it as well, LORD INDRA also have to hide himself several times because of the sex life he became sahastra netraye his body is full of eyes suppose to be full of female genitals but it was a very bad reputation therefore they been substituted with the eyes,LORD SIVA also lost semen by see SRI MOHINI MURTI to play with a ball,
all the material world is bind up by the illusion created by a material body which is destined to become old invalid and very ungly, is better to keep chanting HARE KRSNA MAHA MANTRA all life long to get the human formof life again we wish at least to get DHRUVA LOKA wise planet for wise people who never stop chanting by getting rid of all the madness created by the sexual desire in the material world
agtSP
ys haribol
Hare Krsna Prabhu, I was told that Srila Prabhupada said even the very old sick man in the hospital bed is looking lustily at the nurse and wanting to sexually enjoy her. Hanging on until the last minute and that’s what the non devotee takes with them on the slide back down. Does anyone have a quote for Prabhupada’s statement in this regard?
Your fallen servant,
Balaram das.
pamho
agtACBSP,
well i heard SRILA PRABHUPADA telling this story of king akbar this king was very wise and he asked a question to someone like a brahmana the question was until what age a man is lust? and answer was until the time of death but the king could not believe, the learned man told him take your most beautiful daughter with me we go in a hospital once there a man was almost dead in the bed of the hospital but when that living dead saw the beatiful daughter of the king could not detach his senses from her beauty then the learned man told to the king do you believe now? and the king said yes i believe now,
ordinary people still remain attached to their sinful a false reflection even after leaving their miserable saguna forms for example i been a survivor to paranormal activities in my yard i see also many ghosts pass through my body but they have not chance with me because i got SRI NARASIMHA DEVA KAVACHA i recite the snsdk regulary also then other two kavacham of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA a mala of rudraksa representing SRI SURYA DEVA SRI HANUMAN SRI GANESHA SRI GAURI SANKAR ETC.. plus my hamsa yoga blessing in my birth chart that’s why i survived to paranormal activities since i was a kid,
then KAMADEVA got the physical body burned in ash by the anger of SIVA SANKAR BANGANDI MAHADEVA with SRI KRSNA kamadeva got just defeated because many other young beautiful girls was coming out from the transcendental body of SRI KRSNA then kamadeva ask to LORD SIVA to get a place where to reside and LORD SIVA told him to reside in the subtly body therefore all the lusty desire come from the mind intellingence and false ego
agtSP
ys haribol
Hare Krsna Prabhu, thank you for relating this story.
Yfs,
Balaram das.
pamho
agtACBSP,
the pukka prabhupadanugas as us are always welcome in the good help of each other connected only to SRILA PRABHUPADA VANI SEVA ,i’m glad to hear that you had good time and good sat sanga in SRI MAYAPUR DHAM in the year 1976 with HDG ACBSP i wish i were there too,
we must stop to watch the website of bogus guru because they just make a ridicolous show on the web through their uncontrolled mind , we are glad if we see all the stink guru hoaxers to get the same punishment of jaya patata we are not sentimental toward all these nasty robbers of ISKCON addicted to porno drugs etc.. the hell is waiting for all these cheaters through their hidden asat sangi but they can’t escape to the UPADRASTA ANUMANTA CA to the SUPREME WITNESS
agtSP
ys haribol
This “Child safe Network” is just a rubber stamp government agency to pacify the gullible, cheated, foolish population that the government cares about their children’s safety but guess what? THEY DON”T! The Washington DC political arena is awash with pedophiles and perverts (as is Hollywood!) all dressed up to look respectable with their neat suit and tie profile and patriotic ‘American flag pins’ on their lapel and it is no different in the UK and Europe. This has much to do with the fact that all of these high profile political figures are members of secret societies (Freemason Illuminati) which at their core include Satanic rituals and child murder/sexual abuse. It was present UK Prime Minister Theresa May who in her previous role shut down investigations of child abuse into high profile political leaders in England.
The government just want’s to create a passive, compliant, brainwashed community that do not understand how they are being lied to through the media, television, ”entertainment industry” and “education system” and to do that they are saturating the atmosphere with demonic messages like Nike’s “Just Do It” (The ”modern equivalent of Aleister Crowley’s “Do what though wilt”) and other Satanic saturation of the music industry’s satanic drugged, tattooed, ghetto-pimped demi-monde .
Prostitution today is just a ”career option” and strippers are “empowered business women” This is all psychological manipulation of society by feeding the public a pack of lies and distortion such as ”false flag” attacks which are all carried out by Mi6, Mossad, and the CIA the most notable of these was the 9/11 attack.
These people are demons and they worship demons and the do not have any problem murdering their own civilian populations. They are mass murderers and child killers (Bush Snr and Jnr “Skull and Bones” and Knights of Euralia), Obama (Both parents CIA killers), Bill Clinton (De Molay Freemason Illuminati), Tony Blair (Fabian Society and Knights of Malta).
There are ” high profile” US judges who are saying that in 5 to10 years pedophilia will no longer be a crime! and here in Australia the police department are no longer prosecuting people who have ‘child pornography’ on their computers. This proliferation of porn and ”celebration” of homosexuality, sexualization of children, profanity, ”sexual equality”, ”marriage equality” and discrimination of religious people in the community is only going to get worse. It is a ”RACE TO THE BOTTOM”!
Judge Robert Bork (died in 2012) mentioned in the main article (when working for Richard ”I’m not a crook” Nixon {Skull and Bones, Bohemian Grove}) was the guy that ”fired” Archibald Cox (who was the special investigator in the Watergate Scandal). Two others on Nixon’s staff REFUSED TO SACK Cox and resigned, so this illegal act of Bork went down in infamy as “The Saturday Night Massacre”. He also worked for Reagan (Skull and Bones, Bohemian Grove) who was running drugs in the CIA’s Iran/Conta scandal (a third of Reagans Administration were either prosecuted, jailed or forced to resign. Bork was also “initiated” into the (Yale) Skull and Bones Illuminati secret society part of which involves lying naked in a coffin (with a bow tied around his genitals) and masturbating whilst being taunted by other ”Bonesmen” to reveal all of his sordid sexual history.
Needless to say that this Bork character’s book is just ‘toilet paper’ and his attempt to portray himself as the pinnacle of moral respectability and upholder of the moral values of the general community and society in general is laughable to say the least!
Third paragraph correction Knights of Euralia should read ”Knights of EULOGIA”