[2 hours]
This course is available for physician, dentist, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner continuing education. A general attendance certificate is also available.

Pornography is any medium that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to entice sexual imagination. Pornography has no beneficial use but damages human relationships. Mass communication technologies such as the internet have expanded its reach to an unprecedented degree. Video and virtual reality have intensified its content. The introduction of sex robots that imitate human speech and sexual behaviors and are designed to perform sexual acts with humans are an extreme elaboration of pornography. All of these have dangerous psychological, social, and spiritual consequences. Pornography has reached epidemic proportions in terms of the number of victims and those addicted in the United States and around the world.

Objectives:

• Articulate the serious extent of the use of and bondage to pornography in the United States.
• Describe the harms that pornography presents to individuals, to marriages, to children, to those used in the creation of pornographic materials and to society at large.
• List ways that Christians and Christian healthcare professionals can respond to and combat pornography.