PORNOGRAPHY

Are you a religious man and if so, are there any contradictions between being a religious man and being a porn star?


Yes, I am religious. I am Christian: Baptist. I grew up in as close to a Cosby-show lifestyle as you can get. Doing porno, on a repeated basis, I am committing adultery; I'm not married, so I'm fornicating for a living; I'm paid to have sex, which means what? I'm prostituting by definition. These are things I have to reckon with with my God on a daily basis. I knowingly do these things.
My decision to do porno has forced me to take my religion within: because of my job I am stronger in my relationship with God, because now I take God with me everywhere I go; if I don't, I'll fail! I didn't know that god blessed me with an abnormally large penis that allows me to make porno. But I feel blessed. I believe I am blessed because I am meant to please one woman for the rest of our lives together. True, I haven't met her yet.

Imagine it's one day in the future and you're a father. Your son or daughter comes to you and says, "Dad, I want to be a pornographic movie star." What would your reaction be?

In no way would I recommend this job to my best-friend, let alone my children. Every day in this business you must decide to risk your life. When I came into this business in '98, 5 women were infected with HIV from one guy. It was a scary time. I would positively forbid my daughter from working in this industry. There is a measure of self-respect a sex performer gives away every single time he or she is on camera. I wouldn't want anyone so close to me to give away anything so important and valuable. When I have kids I will instruct them that their bodies are temples, and I don't want anyone walking up into and defiling their temples.


From http://www.getbig.com/iview/steele040315.htm

God is the end, agent and exemplar of creation, and the source of the activity called freedom.

E. Britt 1971 on Thomas Aquinas’ theology

Man's freedom, far from being destroyed by his relationship to God, finds its foundation in this very relationship. "To take something away from the perfection of the creature is to abstract from the perfection of the creative power itself." This metaphysical axiom, which is also a mystical principle, is the key to St. Thomas’ spirituality.

M.-D.Ch.

E.Britt 1992.vol.28."Thomas Aquinas ".636-39.p.638.

It should be said that man’s will is discordant with the will of God

insofar as man wills something God does not want it to will,

as when it wills to sin;

though God does not want the will to will this,

if it so wills God brings it about, for whatever it wills, the Lord does.

And though in this way man’s will is discordant with the will of God with respect to the movement of will,

it can never be discordant with respect to result or event,

for a man’s will always chooses that event because God always fulfills his will concerning man. But with respect to the manner of willing it is not necessary that man's will be conformed to God's,

because God will whatever He wills eternally and infinitely, but man does not.

St. Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions of Evil,6.

From Aquinas: Selected Writings. trans. Ralph McInerny.p.247.

Quoted in Porcupines; A Philosophical Anthology by Graham Higgin.London:Penguin,1999.66.