Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology,

Biola University.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics, also

at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

We're here today with a very interesting guest by the name of Matt Frad.

You might recognize his name.

I first heard him debating on the topic of pornography on the popular

radio show unbelievable. Matt was Winsome, he was thoughtful, really speaking with

somebody who made a case for the goodness of pornography and I thought

we need to connect. I got his book which is called The Porn Myth, which in my estimation is one of the best books on this topic. We Connected. He also has a

podcast called Pints with Aquinas, which is interesting and popular.

Matt, thanks for joining us, but let me start by asking you a question, just

broadly speaking, of all the topics you could

cover what motivated you personally to write a book on the myths of

pornography? Yeah thanks Sean thanks for having me on the show. I experienced a conversion to Jesus

Christ at the age of 17 and at that point I tried to be holy as one ought when one becomes a Christian and the one thing that was really

standing in my way was the synoponography and several years after that I began to find a good degree of freedom from it and I began speaking

out about that freedom because at the time there wasn't a lot of people doing this at least

that seemed that way to me and I it just sort of grew from there.

I had a passion for it.

It seems to me to be one of those obstacles that prevents the reception of the gospel.

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