Notre Dame Students Against Porn | Jim Martinson | First Things

As a student at the University of Notre Dame, I have always been taught to try to make a difference in my community. So when I noticed that campus culture has a pornography problem, I wanted to do everything possible to remedy it.

On campus, I have met several people who struggled with an addiction to this pervasive drug. Pornography harms users’ ability to form healthy relationships, and it harms women by fostering a culture of exploitation and violence. But while it’s no secret that many students consume pornography, what most people don’t acknowledge is that many students want to stop.Knowing how ubiquitous and damaging pornography is, several students and I decided to fight this problem. We knew Notre Dame already had a policy prohibiting students from using campus Wi-Fi to access pornography. This accords with both the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ declarations that pornography is morally offensive. But unlike other Catholic universities, Notre Dame does nothing to enforce its own policy.

Source: Notre Dame Students Against Porn | Jim Martinson | First Things

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