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OK, so one of the most popular books on the market right now among women is "50 Shades of Grey," which is soon be hitting the big screen as a movie as well. It is very hotly followed by a large number of women for it's primarily sexual content and drama, all of which are sinful in nature. In fact, most of the women in my church from twenty to eighty, whether they have husbands or not, have an infatuation with the main character Christian Grey and his carnal appetite, secretly desiring that the things in that book would happen to them. I hear them talking about it in church lately like it's as plain as discussing the weather, and right beside their husbands no less!
Now let it simply be asked, how is this any different from pornography? The book may not have any pictures, I grant you, but pornography is not limited to visual content...
You see, the sin in Pornography is not in looking at a picture, but in lusting within the heart. Since lust of the heart is the main sin of pornographic content, whatever media it comes through must be considered sinful. Add to that the fact that although men are visual creatures, women are emotional, so a drama about sex in written form is basically "their" form of personalized pornography. Most women in the world would become angry if they caught their husbands reading Playboy and calling it "literature". Yet give one of my female friends from church a copy of "50 Shades," and watch her husband and Jesus go out the windows of hear heart, and "Mr. Grey" (or shall we say Satan) come in.
A woman who reads "50 Shades" and is a Christian does the same thing as a married Christian man who chooses to view pornography to lust over. The people in the book and on the screen are not their spouses, yet their fantasy is full of fornicating with them. Any woman who reads "50 Shades" and calls herself Christian would be a hypocrite to think she could criticize her husband over watching porn when she is just committing the same sin herself! Although I'm not saying the husband would definitely deserve a serious rebuke!
A man can be made jealous after his wife's heart by the sin of pornography as well, no different from a woman. Do not think for one minute that only men commit sexual sin in terms of carnal media subject material. If you are a Christian woman out there who is married before God to your Christian husband, make your first love Christ and your second love the man you said "I do" to! If you have desires from the book's subject matter that you want fulfilled, it is your husband's job to strive and please you with those methods, not Satan's!
Now let it simply be asked, how is this any different from pornography? The book may not have any pictures, I grant you, but pornography is not limited to visual content...
You see, the sin in Pornography is not in looking at a picture, but in lusting within the heart. Since lust of the heart is the main sin of pornographic content, whatever media it comes through must be considered sinful. Add to that the fact that although men are visual creatures, women are emotional, so a drama about sex in written form is basically "their" form of personalized pornography. Most women in the world would become angry if they caught their husbands reading Playboy and calling it "literature". Yet give one of my female friends from church a copy of "50 Shades," and watch her husband and Jesus go out the windows of hear heart, and "Mr. Grey" (or shall we say Satan) come in.
A woman who reads "50 Shades" and is a Christian does the same thing as a married Christian man who chooses to view pornography to lust over. The people in the book and on the screen are not their spouses, yet their fantasy is full of fornicating with them. Any woman who reads "50 Shades" and calls herself Christian would be a hypocrite to think she could criticize her husband over watching porn when she is just committing the same sin herself! Although I'm not saying the husband would definitely deserve a serious rebuke!
A man can be made jealous after his wife's heart by the sin of pornography as well, no different from a woman. Do not think for one minute that only men commit sexual sin in terms of carnal media subject material. If you are a Christian woman out there who is married before God to your Christian husband, make your first love Christ and your second love the man you said "I do" to! If you have desires from the book's subject matter that you want fulfilled, it is your husband's job to strive and please you with those methods, not Satan's!
