Article June 5, 1978 ISSUE

Curbing pornography

GRANT C. BUTLER

Most thinking individuals agree that pornography is degrading and that there should be more effective community standards against it. But despite the work of citizen groups, pornography has continued its depredations. The solution will not come until the individual clearly recognizes that sensualism never brings true and lasting happiness but only degrades and debilitates. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "Sensualism is not bliss, but bondage." Science and Health, p. 337;

Since the problem of pornography must be handled in individual consciousness before it can be corrected collectively, we should get busy and use the spiritual ammunition Christian Science gives us to shoot down the tempting teasers of sensuality. This ammunition is the spiritual truths available to everyone.

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