PORNOGRAPHY

1) "In our day the dreadful influence of pornography is like unto a plague sweeping across the world, infecting one here and one there, relentlessly trying to invade every home, most frequently through the husband and father. The effect of this plague can be, unfortunately often is, spiritually fatal.” 

~Boyd K Packer (Cleansing the Inner Vessel – Conference OCT 2010)

2) "Pornography will always repel the Spirit of Christ and will interrupt the communications between our Heavenly Father and His children and disrupt the tender relationship between husband and wife."

~ Boyd K Packer (Cleansing the Inner Vessel –Conference OCT 2010)

3) "The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography—and it is a plague—if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction." 

~ Boyd K. Packer (Cleansing the Inner Vessel – Conference OCT 2010)

4) "Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a brain. The brain won’t vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain subject to recall, flashing its perverted images across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in life.” 

~Dallin H. Oaks (Pornography – Conference APR 2005)

5) "Pornography impairs one’s ability to enjoy a normal emotional, romantic, and spiritual relationship with a person of the opposite sex. It erodes the moral barriers that stand against inappropriate, abnormal, or illegal behavior. As conscience is desensitized, patrons of pornography are led to act out what they have witnessed, regardless of its effects on their life and the lives of others."

~Dallin H. Oaks (Pornography – Conference APR 2005)

6) " Do all that you can to avoid pornography. If you ever find yourself in its presence—which can happen to anyone in the world in which we live—follow the example of Joseph of Egypt. When temptation caught him in her grip, he left temptation and “got him out” 

~ Dallin H. Oaks (Pornography – Conference APR 2005)

7) "Curious exploration of pornography can become a controlling habit, leading to courser material and to sexual transgression. Avoid Pornography at all cost.”

 ~Thomas S Monson (Preparation Brings Blessings –APR 2010)

8) "Participation in pornography or any of its lurid forms is a manifestation of unbridled selfishness.” 

~Richard G. Scott (To Acquire Spiritual Guidance- OCT 2009)

9) "Pornography is not some titillating feast for the eyes that gives a momentary rush of excitement. [Rather] it has the effect of damaging hearts and souls to their very depths, strangling the life out of relationships that should be sacred, hurting to the very core those you should love the most." 

~Gordon B Hinckley ( A Tragic Evil Among Us – Conference OCT 2004)

10) "Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode." 

~ Thomas S. Monson (The Lighthouse of the Lord – Conference OCT 1990)