King James
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
I honestly don’t understand the appeal. It’s something that has plagued humanity since the beginning and through history it gains momentum and acceptance right before that culture crumbles from the inside out. I honestly think that when the human mind can no longer see the beauty around them, the virtue in stories and the artwork that depicts them, and only sees the potential for lust there’s a slippery slope from there. I honestly see it as sinful behavior, no different from smoking and drinking. Once you start, you just continue on. You stop wanting to associate with those that disapprove of your behavior and instead seek out people that will help reinforce it so you don’t have that conviction to stop you. I’ve always been of the mindset that purity is a beautiful thing because you’re saving something intimate, priceless, and irreplaceable for one person. That is a true expression of love. It keeps your heart and mind on them and them alone rather than having other individuals to compare them to, your heart confused between lust and love, and physically… it’s just healthier, let’s be honest. But these days, if you support purity and decency, you’re labeled as being a prude…and I take offense to that. It’s a defense mechanism to take the attention off of conviction and demonize someone else so the attention and conversation shifts away from what’s wrong.
Mind, I can count the friends that would agree with me on one hand. Most of my friends enjoy smut and that’s their right to. However, not one of them makes me feel like I’ve done something wrong or I have something wrong with me for feeling the way I do about it. And not one will tell me that I should give it a look for myself. My handbook for life tells me not to put anything wicked before my eyes and while this happens more and more these days, quite on accident, (Thank you Tumblr for your lack of filters and DA for ignoring yours) I will never go out of my way to seek out anything that destroys something beautiful and exchanges it for something that appeals to the darker side of a person.
