Do You Masturbate to Porn? You Might Not Make a Good Mormon

Mormons Declare War on Masturbating Porn Addicts in Creepy New Video
February 1, 2014 By Michael Stone
A recently released video by Brigham Young University–Idaho compares porn-addicted masturbators to wounded soldiers, and encourages students to identify to religious officials friends they think are masturbating to porn.
The awkward and creepy video, “Wounded On The Battlefield,” compares reporting a friend to religious authorities for masturbating to rescuing a wounded soldier in a time of war.
In the video, BYU-Idaho President Kim B. Clark reminds students to reach out to roommates in need: “If you need to, talk to your bishop, tell someone who can do something that you have a friend in trouble.”
Masturbation and porn addiction is the enemy, and the good Mormon must be vigilant:

“The temptations of the great war are many, the battles are real, and the enemy is clever. The enemy is cruel, ruthless, and relentless. We must not underestimate the danger. We must be vigilant and valiant…”
The video compares porn-addicted masturbators to wounded soldiers.
There are many problems with the messages in this video, including these three:
1. Students should turn roommates in to their bishops if they so much as suspect someone they’re living with has a problem with porn. That’s hardly the main point of the president’s message, which is about helping friends who have a porn addiction, but it’s a disturbing undercurrent.
2. “Addiction” seems to be defined here as “any guy who looked at porn EVER while in college.” Conflating experimentation with addiction is hardly helpful to people who actually do suffer from addiction.
3. There’s no indication that women might ever have problems with porn—that’s all manly guy soldier stuff, of course.

View the video at: www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/ … new-video/