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“Stay away from pornography as you would avoid a serious disease. It is as destructive. It can become habitual, and those who indulge in it get so they cannot leave it alone. It is addictive.

“It is a five-billion-dollar business for those who produce it. They make it as titillating and attractive as they know how. It seduces and destroys its victims. It is everywhere. It is all about us. I plead with you young men not to get involved in its use. You simply cannot afford to.”

Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign MagazineLiving Worthy of the Girl You Will Someday Marry” (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, May 1998). 49.