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Podcast: Mormon Land
Episode: What many Latter-day Saints and church leaders get wrong about pornography | Episode 382
Description: Pornography — broadly defined as sexually explicit images — has become a sort-of wallpaper of modern lives. It is everywhere: in our books, movies, computers, video games, social media posts, music and phones.
For many years, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint warned members that porn was “dangerous,” “evil” and “damnable.” They taught that viewing porn was a sin. In the past decade, though, the church has suggested that repeated porn watching is an addiction, like alcohol and drugs, often requiring professional help to overcome.
Earlier this month, apostle Patrick Kearon addressed attendees at the Utah Coal...