The book we are going to discuss today is one of the most disturbing and heartbreaking accounts I've read in a long time.

Listen or watch before you have kids present. Why? Well, we're going to talk about a book called

pornography, and what's unique about it is it's written from two UK writers from a secular perspective,

a critique of pornography, arguing its affected relationships, the brain, the law, and quite

literally everyone and everything in society in some fashion. Scott, what's your general takeaway from reading this book before we get into some of the

particulars?

Well, Sean, honestly, I vacillated between being terrified and being nauseated.

Those were my two takeaway reactions.

And what they're describing in this is not only the phenomena of pornography, but the industry behind it. That's right.

And what a huge economic enterprise this is, and how it's influenced the law, how it's influenced the way our brains are wired,

how it's influenced the way it affects our relationships,

and how it's impacted, for the most part, hugely negatively,

the lives of the people who have been victimized by it.

I mean, it is an incredibly disturbing look at what some people still think is

harmless entertainment. And Sean, you just can't hold that view. That is just not a plausible

view of pornography after reading this.

I think that's really well said, because for a long time it was conservatives. Maybe it was

Protestants, Catholics, evangelicals. Some would say Puritans.

Yeah, Puritans, from within a religious fold. But we've come full circle now where you see in this

book many, in particular two secular writers and thinkers, making some of the same kind of critique

that you and I and others have made. Now, what's not in this book is the hopeful, positive vision

of sexuality, because God is totally absent will come to

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