Aquinas, Pornography & Remedies for Sorrow
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
In my first talk since our country was shut down by COVID, I address the students at Franciscan University of Steubenville about porn and Aquinas’s remedies for lust and sorrow.
We tackle:
- Aquinas’s underwhelming, yet vitally necessary, remedies for lust
- Why Aquinas’s remedies for sorrow are essential in the struggle against porn
- Students’ questions and Aquinas’s answers for beating porn addiction
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good day everybody. Welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad. Today I want to share with you a recent talk that I gave at Franciscan University of Steubenville up in Ohio. It was the first talk that I gave since COVID hit. I was able to fly up there with my son and I spoke to around 500 university students who are all social distancing in a gigantic |
| 0:22.7 | gym. You can watch the talk on YouTube if you want to watch it rather than listen to it. |
| 0:28.6 | But it was really great to give the talk and the reason I'm sharing it on Pints with Aquinas |
| 0:32.1 | is because I shared Aquinas as four remedies for lust and then I shared his five remedies for sorrow. |
| 0:39.4 | And you might be wondering why I would do that. |
| 0:41.4 | Why would you talk about his remedies for sorrow? |
| 0:43.3 | And I explained this in the talk, but briefly, it's because I think one of the primary reasons |
| 0:47.8 | people habitually masturbate or look at pornography is to self-soothe. |
| 0:53.8 | And if we are an agitated or anxious state, we may be more |
| 0:59.2 | likely to turn back to these things that we've done perhaps since our childhood in order to sort of self-regulate. |
| 1:06.9 | And Aquinas as remedies for sorrow aren't just there so that we can, you know, use them when we feel |
| 1:12.3 | when we feel sad, but we could also think of them as how to live a beautiful life. And so that's, |
| 1:16.9 | that's what I, that's why I share them with you. And so I hope you'll enjoy this talk. Before we get |
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