Hello.<\/p>\n
I have a question about books like Fifty Shades of Grey. Though I have no interest in reading them, I have a few friends and family members who do. I was wondering if reading things like that would be wrong? and if so how could I tell them that it is wrong? Are there specific verses I could show them?<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n\t
Wikipedia describes the book as: “Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>\u00a0is a 2011 erotic novel by British author E. L. James. Set largely in Seattle, it is the first installment in a trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It is notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving bondage\/discipline, dominance\/submission, and sadism\/masochism.”<\/p>\n In other words, the book is a verbal form of pornography. It is wrong for the same reason visual pornography is wrong. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God<\/em>” (I Thessalonians 4:3-5).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Hello. 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