This paper explains that, from the Catholic viewpoint,
pornography offends against the divine plan for the body and for the
intimacy of sexual union by fixating on certain normal bodily functions in an immodest and obsessive way. The author points out that the natural state of sexuality revealed in Creation renders a theology of the body, which places sexual behavior within the confines of marriage, sanctifying the sexual experience;
pornography degrades human sexuality, denying the three original experiences of man and the holy Sacrament of Matrimony. The paper stresses that the placement of sexuality outside the marital bond rejects its intimate reality, making sex a public not private act, disjoining the two in the objectification of the body and the
psychological debasement of the spirit.