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Pornography is not a drug.

Today, I watched this video. Please take a minute and view it yourself. Oh man. What a tear jerker, huh? Here's this husband and father, Troy, who just can't help but want to see attractive, naked people in the act of sex. This is because, "...the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord..." (The Book of Mormon, Mosiah 3:19). Let's recap here: the reason Troy is such a fallen man is because his natural self is God's enemy, and that natural self is what desires the viewing of acts of sex by others. Letting alone the various other "natural man" tendencies which God must hate (the desire to eat, sleep, have companionship, etc.), let's examine what constitutes an addiction to pornography. In this talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of t