Q3. So-called Victimless Crime

[saskheather]

It is wrong to **** and to take advantage of others.There are victums..the girls forced into this, the wives shamed by their husbands acitions and the children troubled by broken homes.

[JimOtt]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with ***********? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

It is wrong because it is a sin to covet something, and with *********** that is essentially what you are doing, coveting having that "experience" with someone that is displayed on a magazine or on your screen of your computer.

Going to prostitutes would be wrong as it is having the sexual relationship outside of the bonds of Holy Matrimony which is the place that God has placed that experience. Not to mention the toll on family, friends, and the psychie of everyone involved.

I think everyone ends up being the victims of this victimless crime...from the people directl;y involved in the "acts" to society which is being told that this is acceptable. It can ruin relationships between husband/wife, and can ruin and kill those involved if things get violent. We have all seen pictures on prime time dramas of situations where that has happened, or heard it/read it in the news.

[JimOtt]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with ***********? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

It is wrong because it is a sin to covet something, and with *********** that is essentially what you are doing, coveting having that "experience" with someone that is displayed on a magazine or on your screen of your computer.

Going to prostitutes would be wrong as it is having the sexual relationship outside of the bonds of Holy Matrimony which is the place that God has placed that experience. Not to mention the toll on family, friends, and the psychie of everyone involved.

I think everyone ends up being the victims of this victimless crime...from the people directl;y involved in the "acts" to society which is being told that this is acceptable. It can ruin relationships between husband/wife, and can ruin and kill those involved if things get violent. We have all seen pictures on prime time dramas of situations where that has happened, or heard it/read it in the news.

[royk]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogrphy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

We destroy real relationships with imaginary ideas from viewing *****, in magazines or on the internet. Free ***** is the expensive start of losing your soul to **** and pleasure. Also, so many are lost who pose in these picture and movies.

We need to pray for all of them we might see, by accident or on purpose! Let God arise and inspire all to bring awareness to this victimless crime/sin

Prostitutes are lost souls, and going to them can 'help' us to get further from God and get really lost. Beware what **** can do to you regarding your relationship with God!

[Paul H]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

P*********y is most obviously a breach of the 10th commandment. However, more importantly, it is a breach of one of what Jesus described as the one of the greatest commandments, namely to love your neighbour as yourself. P*********y is the diametric opposite of love. It is l*st with no care or thought for the object of that l*st, who is after all a child of God. Going to prostitues takes the whole thing one step further moving from a breach of the 10th commandment to comitting adultery. Fundementally though it is still a breach of the commandement to love our neighbours as ourselves. The most obvious victims are the subjects (both men and women) of the p*********y and the prostitutes themselves but in fact everyone is a victim - the whole of society loses from this.

[Vaiden Rochelle]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

*********** demeans all people who have anything to do with it. First, it demeans the ones being photographed because they are naked. Adam and Eve became shameful due to their nakedness in the garden when they ate the forbidden fruit. Their eyes were opened, and they saw their nakedness and were shamed. Even God made clothes for them. That means that He wants us covered. Why? Because our sexualy desires are great for procreation purposes. However, outside of marriage, it is fornication. Second, *********** is addictive. Typically, it's the male gender who have the higher sex drive, so they will continue to look at the pictures of the women and eventually acquire an insatiable appetite for what they see. Third, it's an expensive business and a waste of time. The magazines alone are expensive over time, and as far as the people in them go, the men will never really see them in real life. Also, *********** indicates that all women like all sexual acts and will do all sexual acts as presented in those pages or online. Then, it's possible that husbands will become frustrated and upset when their wives won't do all of those acts. Will they then look for someone who will?

Nothing good can ever come out of visiting prostitutes. Disease abounds, blackmail is possible, money is gone, and if caught, so is someone's reputation followed by the loss of a wife and family. Also, the prostitutes lose because of disease, abuse, emotional abuse, and possibly jail time. Anyone who is associated with this business of *********** and prostitutes is a victim.

[home4ed]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

*****-graphy is wrong because It is "looking t a woman lustfully" and according to Jesus that is adultery which God forbids in the 7th commandmant. Very simply it goes against God's law and is rebellious disobedience to practice. Again prostitution is wrong because it is in rebellion against God's design for sex. I read someone's post that God purposes sex for procreation. But I would argue that it is not its only purpose. It is meant for pleasure between spouses and serves a very real purpose of creating intmacy in the most deepest of levels. It strengthens the bonds of covenant marriage wich is a worship to a covenant God.

The victims ae all involved and some not "involved". For an unmarried person involvement in these behaviors also victimizes any future possible spouses through unrealistic fantasies based on images not real to their relatinship as well as the threat of possible STD's.

It absolutely amazing the ridiculous deceptions the medical community perpetuates in the name of "sexual freedom". Recently I went for an annual check up and was informed that the AMA has excepted new standards for testing for cervical cancer through PAP smears. Anyone 30+ with a neg. test result the last time and momogomousely married is excused.

So I asked, "What's up- Nationalized healthcare doesn't wish to pay for these screenings?"

The Nurses reply was "Well, if you haven't had 100 sexual partners it's really not necessary since cervical cancer is caused by the HPV virus. Hmmmm an STD. And also well known (among pro-lifers anyway) is the connection of breat cancer to abortion and hormones(birth control) and yet everytime I've gone to the OBGYN after having a baby thwy want to push birth control injections on me!

Bottom line: Disobey God, use what he designed for his glory and perfect will to fulfill your own selfish desires and end up with problems!

[JamesDennis]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

Pornographẙ and going with prostitutes would be considered as lusṯing outside the bounds of marriage as Jesus himself interprets the 10th commandment. Victims would be the one who succumbs to prosṯitution and his/her family or those who avails of the services of a prostitute and his/her family as well as the prostitute and his/her family.

[Melvin]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with ***********? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

*********** is a **** magnet, it brings out the perverse desires of the heart and washes them to the point of innundation.

Prostitutes are usually 'not your wife or husband'. There are at least two victims here.

I'm a 'retired' alcoholic and sometimes I think I've 'heard it all'. When it comes to unrestrained sex and all the abberations thereof, you can summarize the 'victims' list by putting down just about anything that breathes. Most people would list men, women, sex providers of all kinds, little boys and little girls.

Based on the statements/confessions I've heard from young men struggling to stay sober by working through the 4th and 5th step of AA, I'd have to mention young men/older boys as a definate victims group. Often these 'kids' find themselves out on the street simply because they're drinking has exhausted all hope of help from anybody and is on a par with a man of many more years although a lot of them aren't passed high school or college age.

When you're down and out, when you're on the street, when you're very hungry and especially when it's very cold - any refuge is almost certainly welcome even if it means an adult male's bed. These too are victims of the **** which can and will be fed by **** and the effects. as I've so often heard in confidence, are devastating.

Yes, there are victims - way too many.

[Highohfaith]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

To put it simply, yet very tragically EVERYTHING! **** and going to prostitutes is a sin in God's eyes.

I have a niece, by marriage, who took an overdose (we don't know if she did it intentionally or by accident) and died on her kitchen floor at age 23. She left millions to her family. No one knew how she got the money until it was discovered she was involved in a very highly organized crime pornogr*phy ring. She lived in Hollywood, her entire family ( including me) thought she was making money modeling as a sophisticated runway model. How devastating to the entire family and what a loss of life for such a beautiful young girl. I also have a nephew by marriage who is in jail serving a 10 year sentence for molesting his own children. No doubt pornogr*phy also facilitated this crime. There are millions of families tragically touched each year by pornogr*phy and prostitution.

[Raph]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28)

What is wrong with ***********?

Pornograph leads to committing sin of adultery.

What is wrong with going to prostitutes?

Going to prostitutes is wrong because it is committing adultery and is degrading women and it encourages them to use their bodies, which are the temple of God, for adulterous purposes.

Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

The victims of this so called "victimless" activity are everybody in the society. Husbands, wives, daughters, sons, neighbours, friends, and everybody - all in one way or another are affected with this evil activity.

[tgandy]

*********** is wrong for a various reasons.  It dehumanizes a person and makes them an object.  People have expectations that are not real.  Making love and sex are two different things.  Within marriage a man and woman make love and express what they feel for each other.  With *********** it is a hipe that is not real.  A prostitute is one who receives money for sex.  This is wrong.  Making love is a beautiful expression of love between a married couple.  Buying and selling sex cheapens the very act of love.  We are all victims of ***********.  We are constantly exposed to it.  Commercials, magazine ads etc. all portray the human body in an appealing way and it cheapens the individual.

[DebLam3teach]

***********, which intends to cause sexual excitement with stimulating pictures, is also adultery and therefore sin. *********** takes sex out of the confines of a loving marriage.  It becomes a selfish, animalistic way to release sexual desires.  It is linked with rape, incest, and adultery.  When a person regularly views *********** or uses prostitutes, he/she can become addicted to it. Becoming one with a prostitute, whether in the mind or in the genitals, is also illicit sex outside of marriage.  There are vicitims of this so called "victimless crime" :  men who view it; women and children who pose for it; wives who are isolated or shamed due to it; children who are abused; women who are raped; and society that deals with the crime and divorce that is associated with it. 

[Eager Bver]

What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

 

*********** is a degrading tool for the viewer because it sucks their humanness and morality.  They then start seeking for that kind of activity.  Their heart and mind becomes distorted toward sex that anything goes with anyone.  God created sex for marriage.  The devil distorts and destroys.  The book of proverbs points out the problems in going to a prostitute: false enjoyment, then death.  Also, one makes himself one to a harlot, when he should be one with his or her mate only.  In someway, we are all victims: the models, the ones who encourage such behavior by buying magazines, watching movies, talking favorably about it, internet, and those who are quiet about it.  

[JoanG]

It is degrading. It portrays a fa;se idea of healthy sex. It turns men into animals. Prostitutes are not wives to these men. They are poor women who sell not only their bodies but also their souls for men to enjoy destroying them. Society and all humanity are the victims in these crimes.

[Old Jerry]

The thing that wrong with watching *********** is that it expects their spouse to do the things and that they see in the *********** pictures. They start treating their partner as a sex object and it leaves love out of the equation. Going to prostitutes is probably going to get you some kind of S. T. D. and then it will be transmitted to your spouse and then it leaves love out of the equation. The victim of this “victimless” activity is everybody that is involved in it.

[Karen11]

On 12/19/2007 at 10:10 PM, Pastor Ralph said:

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

It is a sin that get's in to your head your heart that will ultimately will destroy  

Sinful and wrong

Everyone.

 

[MosesSole]

On 12/19/2007 at 10:10 PM, Pastor Ralph said:

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? I think when a man turns to pornograp** as a means of sexual pleasure, he is depriving his wife of sharing in the love that is supposed to be formed in the union. So many men in our time turn to **** for pleasure but it becomes a problem when the men use fictional narratives of a sex act, to avoid engaging with his wife. This is sad, selfish and probably a sin. It's probably a form of adultery too if you apply Jesus' standards of exacting **** onto people in the film. 

What is wrong with going to prostitutes? If you're married, of course this is cheating on your wife. 

Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity? Everyone is a victim, even the man, when he becomes addicted to ****. If you're single and engaging with **** more often than with real women, it deprives you of social intimacy that is necessary for a marriage. If you're a married man addicted to ****, you're breaking your marriage vows by choosing lascivious images over intimacy with your wife. The entire family structure falls apart.

Free speech is fine and no one is going to get arrested for looking a skin flick. If you must, so be it. But remember that there is always the danger of the films becoming a third person in a marriage, and who needs that?

 

[Irmela]

3.1. What is wrong with ***********?

Women are viewed as sex objects. The moral values are lowered in that all sorts of sexual perversion is accepted or legalized, eg. prostitution, fornication and adultery. Sexual fulfillment becomes something selfish. *********** can become addictive to such an extent that men crave bizarre/weird sexual fantasies to stimulate themselves. These same scenes are then tried to be copied, whether the spouse or partner is willing or not.

In a nutshell, *********** can be summed up as being degrading and dangerous to women. (actually degrading to all involved .... you live in the shadow of guilt and shame and feel so unclean and trapped).

3.2. It is committing adultery. You are encouraging the person in a path of sin. You are using someone else to gratify your sexual desires. She might become pregnant. You are putting your and your spouses life at risk as you could get infected with one or other disease (vinereal diseases , HIV, etc). 

3.3. We are all victims

(1) The women who pose

(2) The men who view and become addicted

(3) The wives who suffer isolation and shame

(4) The children who are abused

(5) The women who are raped

(6) The families who are broken up by divorce, crime and disorder

 

 

[Niyonka16]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with ***********?

ANSWER: The true meaning of Matthew 5/28: This verse refers to the commandment against adultery stated in Exodus 20:14. This verse follows immediately after the prohibition against murder, and the Sermon follows this same pattern. The equation of **** with adultery is very similar to the earlier equation of anger and murder in Matthew 5:22.

Jesus Himself emphasized the importance of guarding one's heart, stating in Matthew 5:28, "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Watching *********** is exactly that, looking at someone with lustful intent (whether man or woman), and Jesus equates this with adultery, a clearly defined sin.

Based on the Word of God in the Bible, watching *********** is considered a sin. It is rooted in ****, promotes a selfish mindset, turns us away from God, and can become addictive.

However, the message of Jesus Christ is not one of condemnation but of hope and redemption. Through repentance, seeking forgiveness, and relying on the power of the Holy Spirit, we can break free from the bondage of *********** and experience the abundant life that God has intended for us.

What is wrong with going to prostitutes?

ANSWER: There a whole lot that's wrong with going to prostitutes. These are a few things I think is wrong with prostitution.

1. The destruction of family.
2. Prostitution degrades women.
3. Pimps - it’s this notion of ‘pimps and hoes’ that is glorified in the media.
4. Vulnerability - many of the women may have entered into the field of sex might have been the victims of childhood sexual abuse or abusive adult relationships.
5. Degradation - some of the men might have seen the women as a human being and as an empowered woman and someone to be respected.

Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?

ANSWER: The victims of this "victimless" activity are the hookers and the “Johns.”

A victimless crime is generally an illegal criminal act that does not have an identifiable victim. Prostitution is often referred to as a “victimless crime” or a “crime without a complainant.” These terms are used to characterize crimes, such as vagrancy, gambling, ***********, and prostitution, wherein, typically, none of the involved citizens files a complaint with the police.

[Lisa Wolf]

Q3. (Matthew 5:28) What is wrong with pornogr*phy? What is wrong with going to prostitutes? Who are the victims of this "victimless" activity?  Your final statement: We are ALL VICTIMS. Is the truth.  *********** and prostitution is wrong because it violates God's Law and commandments for us; they separate us from the pure, holy, love of God.  Anyone who puts sex above anything else has developed an idol.  When we sin, we deal with our own wrong choices.  *********** and prostitution bring the sin of others onto ourselves or whoever is the victim.  People stuck in this cycle or victimized by this cycle of evil often think God has abandoned them and have a difficult time removing themselves from the trauma.  It's impossible without the intervention of the Holy Spirit.  *********** and prostitution have poured their evil throughout the globe.  We are all victims.