ABSTRACT
In an officially christian community it ought to be strictly unnecessary to argue that pornography matters. It is a mark of that secularism which has supplanted a basic Christian attitude that there should be any dubiety on this issue at all. For a Christian pornography matters because it has to do with the lives of creatures who are children of God. Pornography is an attitude to that element in human life which we call sex. Pornography is automatically a matter for Christian judgment, as well as concern, and that judgment is simple and drastic. It will be convenient to look at pornography in association with certain characteristics of modern society. Pornography is so often, particularly among adolescents, the first breakthrough into an atmosphere of delinquency. The work of personal redemption and the work of social redemption would be significantly advanced in an environment purged of pornography.
