Now, you may believe that pornography doesn't affect you or your family. Neither can you protect your daughter, your wife or your mother from the unhinged rapists who admittedly are triggered into acting out what they've been absorbing from pornography and who roam our streets, searching for victims. Our lives are inescapably and sometimes brutally intertwined. A core belief of Judaism is that man and woman, created in the image of G-d, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Judaism sanctions, indeed hallows, the positive enjoyment of sexuality within the context of an overall relationship between husband and wife.
Pornography represents the very antithesis of that tradition.
It makes people into objects by reducing sexuality to an impersonal, mechanical activity. It denies the image of G-d within us. In Jewish tradition, family life has been a mainstay of Jewish survival, and as American Jews we must recognize that pornography is destructive of families as it preys on the weak and weakens the strong with its lure. No one is immune. If Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, has taught us anything at all, he has surely taught us the evil of silence in the face of dehumanization.