Is porn killing love?

Is porn killing love? I woke up this morning and found a friend from the other side of the planet had tagged me with an Aljazeera item.

My knee jerk reaction was how could porn kill love when there is no love to begin with? People are confused what love is and that confusion is getting worse.

Then I discover this wasn't an article I could quickly read and respond to. It is asking me for 40 mins, which I am not willing to give. I decided to give it the first 15 mins and the last few minutes. I told myself, may be this is useful for the children.

So what is love? I blogged about this here a few years ago but the quickest way is quoting from the Apostle John, 'God is Love' which most will not understand. Let's see it in action: Mother Teresa of Calcutta. One of my kids use to watch this countless times, like every school holiday.

We in Singapore are doing better than before. When I was a kid I had observed that a lot which goes on in families isn't love but debt and in the extreme children were the parents' pension plan. They expected the 'love' to be repaid. This is also a key theme in much of our literature. It's all about bread and butter. Those were times of want, what do you expect? But now the fight has changed in character even if its substance has always been the same. For an example just go to Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose".

This is a screenshot from the movie showing the forbidden book the monks in the abbey were privately enjoying themselves. That is pornography but in Middle Ages parlance. Porn is as old as the hills. Where there is a poverty of love there you will find porn.








Finally the Aljazeera Story: Is porn killing love? They are asking the wrong question. Society is asking the wrong question here and also on LGBT too. That's why I took the effort to painfully write and post this. I might come back and rewrite this for greater clarity.

There is little or no love to begin with.