Before we begin this episode, a content warning.

Father will be discussing topics of an adult nature and speaking frankly about issues touching on the Sixth and Ninth Commandment.

While these are important issues and Catholics must be aware of the morality of these topics and not just turned a blind eye to them,

this episode would not be suitable for young children.

And parents are encouraged to listen to this episode

before prudentially judging whether their older children should listen along with them.

We'll pause here for a few moments before beginning.

Welcome back to the SSPX podcast.

In this fifth installment on our ongoing digital dangers series, we'll confront one of the most troubling aspects in the digital age. Pornography. Although pornographic material has been around for literally thousands of years. Never before in human history has it been so

widely disseminated and easily available. This industry, which generates tens of billions of dollars

in annual revenue profits off the addictive nature of this imagery while praying on the young.

While Catholics are likely familiar with the grave moral issues surrounding this, they may not be fully aware of the psychological, emotional, and spiritual damage that this inflicts. Further, addiction to pornography can have

long-lasting social effects, including breaking apart marriages, inhibiting interpersonal relationships,

and standing as an impediment to religious or priestly vocations. These and other matters

of a sensitive nature will be addressed by Father

Jonathan Kopeck on this fifth episode of Digital Dangers. Welcome back, Father. The last episode

of Digital Dangers, we talked about impure content. We talked about the dangers of, you know, impurity online.

And you focused on social media and hinted that this talk, this conference, this podcast

would be on pornography, which is kind of the big elephant in the room, the thing that

theoretically everyone's familiar with, but maybe not the scope

or the, all the implications of that. So to jump right in, can you give a general overview of,

I mean, just to make it clear for everyone the general principles and the general danger

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