What Is The Disadvantages Of The Internet

Envision a place without limits where you have access to everything you want available at the click of a mouse. This place no longer exists in a dream but rather a modern day reality that is called, the Internet. Our entire generation is growing up online. The Internet comes with many advantages, but also with many disadvantages. One of the most harmful of these disadvantages is pornography. “In 2006, estimated revenues show that the porn industry generates $13 billion each year in the US, with Internet porn generating $3 billion per year.” The Internet, along with a secular view on life and the degrading of the dignity of the human person, is bringing a new era of pornography; never before have so many Americans been tempted to view pornography.

Lust. Conjugal Love is the love that is proper to spouses; it is a conjunction that joins two people together in spousal love. Conjugal Act is the ‘spousal act’ or the sexual act that is proper to spouses who are in conjugal love. Real love is to will the good for another. Love is total self-gift. The Catechism defines lust as “a disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.” Lust is a selfish desire that is only interested in what can be done for one’s self-pleasure. Lust distorts the conjugal love and act by making it something that is filled only with passion and desire. In John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, he states, “Lust is disordered sexual desire. Because of sin, man is constantly tempted to desire the other as an object for his own pleasure, to use the

Porn apologists also argue, “the temperate use of pornography can be therapeutic.” More and more, we are finding that in today’s society people have strong opposing views that pornography meets the most basic of human needs. Many believe that porn is the remedy towards improving sexual relations with their partners. There are also those who are not married and struggle with sexual temptation and believe that pornography is “less harmful” then other acts. All of these arguments are nothing but false philosophies. Pornography has the opposite effect: it does not meet any human needs because it limits a person’s ability to have a truly conjugal relationship with another person. Pornography leaves the viewer feeling lonelier than before, and it is a vicious cycle that keeps escalating until one completely loses self-control and self-mastery. Secondly, it does not improve sexual relations with partners; it just makes it worse by giving a person very unrealistic expectations for his or her partner. Thirdly, pornography will never be a “lesser evil” in regards to adultery: it is the same sin because pornography kills the life of grace in the