Hey everybody, welcome to the liturgist podcast. My name is Michael Gunger. And if you're

new around these parts, the liturgists are a global community working to end suffering

by subverting the barriers our society builds around religion, race, gender, ability,

and sexuality. This podcast is part of how we do that work. The liturgist podcast is a

place where we have conversations about the most compelling things we can think up through

lenses like science, faith, and art. And today's episode is a bit of a doozy, you know,

due to overwhelming popular demand, we've finally made an episode about porn. And here's

the deal with this particular episode. The liturgist does not have a single perspective

or opinion about porn. And that's true about any topic, because you know, the liturgist

isn't a person, it's a bunch of us. And it's a bunch of us who see the world in the

vastly different ways. But let's be honest, there's usually a pretty general consensus from

most of us about most topics, you know, most of us around here are passionately LGBTQIA

affirming. Most of us around here are pro-science and enjoy deconstructing dualism and all sorts

of other things that kind of make us alike. But this particular episode really does offer

quite a variety of perspectives about this topic. And this podcast you'll hear from people

who are quite pro-porn and some who are quite anti-porn and a bunch of people who feel

like they have nuances somewhere in the middle of those things. I just want to make it very

clear right from the top that none of the opinions are the opinion of the liturgists. But

they all are opinions of people who are part of this thing in one way or another. So I just

wanted to warn you that on this one, there's a good chance that you're going to run into a

perspective that you don't share or like, you know, sexuality is such a powerful and taboo subject

in our society. And most of us probably have pretty strong feelings in relationship to it.

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