College Offers Hard Core Porn As An Elective

Westminster College, a private liberal arts college in Utah, will be offering a two-credited class called “Film 300O: Porn.” Westminster’s course catalog provides the following description:

“Hard core pornography is as American as apple pie and more popular than Sunday night football. Our approach to this billion-dollar industry is as both a cultural phenomenon that reflects and reinforces sexual inequalities (but holds the potential to challenge sexual and gender norms) and as an art form that requires serious contemplation. We will watch pornographic films together and discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender and as an experimental, radical art form.”

According to their course catalog, the class will begin on campus in the Spring of 2022-2023. In an interview with USA Today, Sheila Yorkin, Westminster College’s chief marketing officer, stated this class had been offered several times before COVID-19.

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A petition was circulated on Twitter to appeal to Westminster College to remove this class since it has no educational value. As of May 2nd, 2022, there are almost 2,000 votes registered on Change.org to have the class canceled.

Yorkin provided an additional statement to ABC4 News stating:

"Westminster College occasionally offers elective courses like this as an opportunity to analyze social issues. As part of this analysis, Westminster College and universities across the county often examine potentially offensive topics like pornography to further understand their pervasiveness and impact.

“Descriptions of these courses, while alarming to some readers, help students decide if they wish to engage in serious investigation of controversial subjects. This course will help students learn how to think critically about the influence of digital media culture.”

Chanza Torres, the instructor of FILM 300O: Porn, says in an interview with ABC News that she is teaching a course on porn because it is a “fascinating study of people and gender performance.” She adds she wants her class to be a safe place for students curious about pornography’s impact on society.

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Porn Is Dangerous

Scientists who have studied MRIs see that viewing pornography destroys parts of the brain. Studies also show that wives who have husbands who look at porn also experience brain damage due to betrayal trauma.

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And Scientists and sociologists did not need to sit in a room with people and watch porn to learn that pornography destroys lives.

Research finds porn viewing is highly addictive in men and women. They found addiction rewires the brain and completely changes an individual’s behavior and personality.

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Reports indicate long-term porn use can cause sexual dysfunctions, depression, anxiety, and the perpetuation of sexual violence. Porn users become extremely impulsive and unable to make sound decisions. When their brain rewires, they regress to a child-like state.

Not only does porn affect the user, but it impacts their children and grandchildren. Studies confirm that pornography use causes epigenetic modification.

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This change in the genetic expression makes a porn user’s children more vulnerable to addictive and destructive behaviors.

Porn Is A Sin

Viewing pornography is a sin. Scripture uses the Greek word porneia to describe any sexual activity that is not between one man and one woman for one lifetime. The Bible has quite a bit to say about sexual sin and immorality. Porneia, or “illicit sexual activity,” can be found over 25 times in the New Testament.

Sexual sin is considered unlike any other sin in that every other sin is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. (1 Corinthians 6:18). Ask anyone on the receiving end of someone’s sexual sin, whether infidelity, incest, rape, or human trafficking. It’s often compared to a fate worse than death.

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Because sexual sin is different than other sins, the Bible tells us our response as Christians should be different. With any other sin or temptation, Christians should put on the armor of God and go toe-to-toe with the enemy in Jesus’ name.

However, with any sexual temptation, Scripture tells us there is only one option:

Run Away

1 Corinthians 6:18 is very clear. “Flee from sexual immorality.”

• Fleeing does not look like lingering at the water cooler when a pretty colleague from work is there.
• Fleeing does not look like searching for ex-boyfriends on Facebook.
• Fleeing does not look like watching movies that objectify women or promote infidelity and sex outside of marriage.
• Fleeing does not look like texting anyone of the opposite sex.
• Fleeing does not look like flirting with anyone other than your spouse.

To flee means to run. It means to close the computer and run away. Don’t answer the private message. Don’t do a double-take. Turn around and go the other way when an ex approaches. To flirt with sexual sin will lead to death and destruction.

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"Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death." (James 1:15, ESV)

Christians Should Be Outraged

Parents who love their children commit their lives to keep their children safe. They go to great lengths to protect them from the sun, secondhand smoke, sugar overdoses, and head injuries.

Children left to their own devices would seriously hurt or kill themselves. Parts of their brain do not develop until the age of 24 for them to make safe and sound decisions. In most states, you must be 25 to rent a car because drivers under that age are more likely to get in a car accident.

Young adults still need adult guidance to help them make decisions that benefit their health and safety. Colleges and universities serve as a place where young adults can grow up under the direction of experienced adults. Parents assume the educators share their desire to promote health and safety for their young adult children.

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But it’s no longer the case. We have faculty members willing to sit in a class with these barely legal-aged students and watch hard-core pornography under the guise of a healthy educational experience. Do they ignore what all the research teaches pornography does to their brains? How can they bear the responsibility of opening the portal to a possible life-long addiction that will rob them of their future, marriage, and legacy?

By all means, have conversations about how pornography influences our society, but there’s no need to expose students to hard-core pornography to have this talk.

If viewing hard-core porn is a requirement to discuss its impact, we might need to consider the following.

• Premed students should shoot up drugs to truly understand the effects of narcotics.
• Counseling students should commit hate crimes to understand the impact of discrimination on our society.
• Pre-law students should break the law to see its effects on our judicial system.

Where does it stop?

Watching Porn With Minors Is Sexual Abuse

When interviewed by ABC, Westminster assured the media that none of the students were younger than 18.

If anyone were younger than 18, viewing pornography with them would be considered sexual abuse.

Up until the age of 17, this behavior could be considered illegal. Once a student turns 18, what was deemed to be unlawful is now acceptable, encouraged, and rewarded with college credit. God bless our educational system and children if this is the route we are heading.

Sadly Westminster is right. “Hardcore pornography IS as American as apple pie and more popular than Sunday night football.” This has to change. We don’t have to roll over and accept this.

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It’s time we stand up and say, “No more!”

The enemy has stolen too much through the porn industry. Marriages destroyed. Children neglected. Families broken. Addictions created. Legacies destroyed. Jobs and dreams lost. Complete separation from God.

Hasn’t the cost been high enough?

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