The Wrong Way of Puritanism

Now it can seem like someone who is against pornography would be prudish and lead toward a Puritan way of thinking. For many people this has happened. But sadder still is the person who, raised in a Puritan environment, will rebel and instead go towards pornography. It has been said that Hugh Hefner (I think that is how you spell it, I rather not look it up for concern of what I might find,) it was said that Mr. Hefner was raised in such a puritan environment that he was starving for simple affection. His desires led him to create a huge pornographic industry. How sad that this child was so deprived of simple affection that it led to such an extreme contrast, an industry that is almost entirely devoid of human contact.

It has been said by ones wiser than I, that puritanism and pornography are just two sides of the same coin. If this is true then a child raised in a sexually repressive environment can easily grow into the same kind of lifestyle that someone in a sexually explicit upbringing might join. Sexual abuse of children is horrific, and sexual repression of children is just the other side of the problem. To be prudish does not cure pornography, it only makes the contrast more acute.