One thing you don't realize when you start a blog is the amount of obscene spam that you'll get. It's difficult to create a spam filter for a blog that will actually filter out everything, so some will make it through as a comment on your blog. This is expected. What isn't expected (or wasn't from me) is the level of obscenity and deviance involved in the comment spam. I'm a grown man, but as I'm going through and deleting it, I still get a little sick over the contents.
My concern is that this reflects in some way the acceptable deviance of society. Clearly we have a problem with pornography addiction in our country. There is now no stigma to walking in a store and trying to buy a porn magazine. You can simply go online, believing (wrongly so) that you are anonymous while surfing the internet. People who wouldn't have considered pornography ten years ago are surfing it regularly online.
How can we fix this? Or can we? Pornography is intrinsically dangerous to people and societies. It increases the violence against women. It hurts marriages and marital relationships. It changes the way the user feels about love. And it exploits women in unspeakable ways for money.
I really this this in part goes back to our loss of the sense of sin. I wonder how many who view pornography realize they are endangering their soul - for all eternity - for a small amount of pleasure that can't ever fulfill their desires. If only they felt that Jesus Christ was looking over their shoulder as they engaged in this. Or even better, picture the Virgin Mary crying at your side as you surf the dark side of the Internet.
If you have a pornography problem, do something about it. Know when you are tempted and stay away from the computer. Put software on your computer that will stop you from viewing it. If you have children, you should do this anyway - they certainly shouldn't be sucked in at a young age. And most of all, pray.
If you know someone who has problems with pornography, pray for them. And pray for the women of our society, who seem to be exploited more as every year passes.
