Jen over at Blag Hag recently attended an anti-porn event held by some Christian groups. Her post is fairly long, but it’s well worth reading. Here’s one of the parts that I’m really glad she said.
And with the people who did have bad experiences with porn, those were all caused BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION. People feel guilty/scared and hide porn from loved ones, and it ruins their marriage because of bad communication. People feel guilty for being sexual beings or need to turn to porn for their sexual curiosity. You know where this guilt comes from? RELIGION. If conservative Christians didn’t beat over your head that sex was so evil to begin with, people wouldn’t be having these problems. We’d have comprehensive sex education and open dialog about human sexuality so little kids wouldn’t have to turn to the internet for information. We wouldn’t feel guilty for engaging in normal sexual activity. We’d be able to talk about sex with our loved ones before marrying them and finding out they have incompatible viewpoints.
The Christian view on sexuality has long been one of immaturity. It’s all shame, guilt, and denial. Hell, I’m surprised snake oil salesman Andreas Moritz isn’t out and about claiming that Christianity causes cancer. Actually, scratch that. It’d be hard for him to sucker people make money in his line of work if he attacked a religion in that way, so I guess I’m not surprised at all.
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For the Sake of Science 
In fairness, Christian fundamentalists were not the only ones on a crusade against pornography. There was a faction of the feminist movement that also opposed pornography, on the grounds that it hurt women. The anti-porn feminists aren’t as strong now as they were in the 1970s and ’80s, but they still surface once in a while. I think even some feminists who weren’t porn enthusiasts were not pleased that anti-porn feminists were teaming up with people who did not have women’s best interests at heart (like Christian and other religious fundamentalists), so the anti-porn feminist movement waned.