Religious views on pornography are based on the broader views of religions on topics such as modesty , dignity , and sexuality.
According to a study; People who identify themselves as religious and consume porn are more likely to consider themselves, over non-religious people, as addicted to porn βan addiction that is not recognized in the principal authority for psychiatric diagnosesβ DSM-5 , nor in DSMTR. There is no direct prohibition of pornography in the Bible. However, many Christians base their views on pornography on Matthew β28 part of the Expounding of the Law :.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery : But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. It contains one of the Ten Commandments , Exodus or Deuteronomy , which is also used often as a supporting verse to condemn pornography.
Michael Coogan reports that, based on his past experience, the campaign against lustful thoughts had the consequence of razoring the Song of Songs from the Bibles available for seminarians. Ken Stone cites Origen 's words to say that reading the Song of Songs may stimulate lust to 'fleshly' readers: "But if any man who lives only after the flesh shall approach [the Song of Songs], to such a one the reading of this Scripture will be the occasion of no small hazard and danger.
For he, not knowing how to hear love's language in purity and with chaste ears, will twist the whole manner of his hearing of it away from the inner spiritual man and on to the outward and carnal; and he will be turned away from the spirit to the flesh, and will foster carnal desires in himself, and it will seem to be the Divine Scriptures that are thus urging and egging him on to fleshly lust!
