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In this episode, I examine some general considerations for what could be understood as two sides of the "porn critique": the scientific critique and the conceptual critique. Both of these areas inform our moral attitudes towards pornography and it is important to have them clarified. 

In this episode, I provide a brief commentary on one voice of dissent in pornography through the work of Chris Hedges, an American pulitzer-prize winning journalist who wrote a devastating critique of pornography (reality television, professional wrestling and other phenomena in the US) in his book "The Empire of Illusion." I merely explicate the view offered there for possible consideration. Enjoy! 

In this episode, I discuss a certain passage from Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae to examine what it means to say that "love is the cause of hatred." 

In this episode, I address some preliminary comments on metaphysics and its relevance in addressing a philosophy of sex. 

In this episode, I examine what is known as the philosophical/theological tradition of "Classical Theism" - which we find strands of in the thought of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and (I argue) Soren Kierkegaard - and how this can serve as a possible metaphysical basis for opposing pornography. The metaphysical picture of the human person that emerges serves as the Christian doctrine of "the Self," which necessarily stands in opposition to philosophies which are "anti-nature" in views about men, women and sexual relations.  

My name is Steven Dunn and welcome to the first episode of the Unadulterated Theology Podcast! This is a podcast ran by a Christian philosopher attempting to better address a philosophy of sex and the human person by "reintroducing" metaphysics and theology back into the cultural conversation. In this episode, I briefly address what the podcast is going to be about and the different kinds of subjects which the UT podcast is going to examine.