This is a fallen world…. the dislocation
of sex-instinct is one of the chief symptoms of the Fall. The world has been
'going to the bad' all down the ages. The various social forms shift, and each
new mode has its special dangers: but the 'hard spirit of concupiscence' has
walked down every street, and sat leering in every house, since Adam fell….The
devil is endlessly ingenious, and sex is his favorite subject. He is as good
every bit at catching you through generous romantic or tender motives, as through
baser or more animal ones.
Tolkien advised his young son that the sexual fantasies of the 20th century were demonic lies, intended to ensnare us. Sex was a trap, Tolkien warned, because human beings are capable of almost infinite rationalization in terms of sexual motives. Imagine that.
Tolkien's rumination is reminiscent of Pope Paul VI's premonition in 1972 concerning how it is that Satan is good at catching people through not only base motives, but even romantic love:
….So we know that this dark disturbing being exists
and that he is still at work with his treacherous cunning; he is the hidden
enemy who sows errors and misfortunes in human history. It is worth recalling
the revealing Gospel parable of the good seed and the cockle, for it
synthesizes and explains the lack of logic that seems to preside over our
contradictory experiences: "An enemy has done this." He is "a
murderer from the beginning . . . and the father of lies,"[Jn 8:44] as
Christ defines him. He undermines man's moral equilibrium with his sophistry.
He is the malign, clever seducer who knows how to make his way into us through
the senses, the imagination and the libido, through utopian logic, or through
disordered social contacts in the give and take of our activities, so that he
can bring about in us deviations that are all the more harmful because they
seem to conform to our physical or mental makeup, or to our profound,
instinctive aspirations….
Of
late a Duke University student (pictured above) who makes pornographic films to pay her tuition
has said her experience in the industry has left her feeling “empowered” and
uplifted: “My experience in porn has been nothing but supportive, exciting,
thrilling, and empowering….For me, shooting pornography brings me unimaginable
joy….It is my artistic outlet: my love, my happiness, my home,” said the
18-year-old freshman, who recently graduated from a Catholic prep school.
Shooting
a pornographic scene is “freeing, it is empowering, it is wonderful, it is how
the world should be.”
Interestingly,
former pornstar Shelley Lubben of the Pink Cross Foundation has now posted a
graphic video showing a male pornographic actor repeatedly choking, slapping,
shaking, and verbally abusing Weeks.
Weeks,
who has become an internet phenomenon, appearing on The View and Piers
Morgan Live, defended her participation in the scene: “Everything I did was
consensual,” she said, describing herself as “a bisexual woman with many sexual
quirks.”
Later
she told The Huffington Post, "I completely stand by every
performer's right to perform in a rough sex scene….We live in America…Freedom
of speech!"
Later
Weeks said she “regretted” being in the scene. Although she said she was merely
“role-playing” and “was comfortable” during the brutal scene, she learned that
“some” of the other women on the website may not have been acting during the
filming of their abuse and degradation.
A
Women's Studies major, Weeks says she hopes one day to become a lawyer
promoting “civil rights” and “women's rights.”
Prior
to Duke she attended Gonzaga Preparatory School, a Jesuit-run institution that allowed
a performance of The Vagina Monologues while she, an honors student,
was on campus.
Weeks,
who said she has been watching porn since she was 12, has described porn as the
most effective way to graduate from her chosen school debt-free: “With my
skillset,” she said, she didn't feel she had other “viable options.”
“There's
really no way for women to win in this patriarchal society,” she said.
While
still defending her porn career, which has heated up since her public relations
campaign, a recent interview with a New York TV station seems to
indicate that she regrets her choice. Let us pray for her. If we bring her
back, it will cancel a MULTITUDE OF SINS….
