If mormons consider women in bikinis to be porn, why do they go to the beach?

Question

They would be exposing themselves to what they think is porn.

using your logic, brian.....
It's ok to look at playboy, as long as I can fight off temptation, right?

Once again, using your own logic brian.....
You wouldn't go to the beach and expose yourselves to the very small swimsuits on beautiful women, that you would consider porn.
Just like you wouldnt open the playboy.

Answer 1

If I come to a fork in the road, and I know that on the left path is a dangerous notorious gang, then I would take the right path for my own safety. If I were to take the left path, then it wouldn’t be for the intention of getting beat up by this gang, but why even take that risk at all?

I do not understand these Mormons above me, they are taught to avoid sin like the plague, yet they still go places where they know sin will be present, they may not go there with the intentions of indulging in sin, but they are still putting themselves at risk of temptation, they may not go there intending to look at immodestly dressed bodies, but there is still that chance of accidentally seeing one. Since it is there goal to avoid pornography, both accidentally and intentionally, why go where you might accidentally witness it? Why would a Mormon put himself in a situation where he would be seeing it through his peripheral vision?

Bye Mom, I am using my free agency to go somewhere where I KNOW I will see nudity, even though I have the choice to go somewhere where nudity is not present. I know Christ would approve of me visiting places where sins and temptations are rampant.

BTW, I like the example you gave about don't open the playboy magazine because you know what is in there, don't go to the beach because you know what is there.

Answer 2

The difference between the beach with bikini-clad women and Playboy is pretty big. If I go to the beach, I don't go to look at the women. I go to swim, play, and tan. If I were to open a Playboy, there's really only one reason why I would, and it wouldn't be for the articles.

Answer 3

Actaully I was never taught this in fanatical SLC, UT. Our ward went on all kinds of river trips down the green river, and went river rafting and water skiing, never were they like a christians church that told the girls to wear a one piece swimming suit, I think the girls just wore whatever they wanted to. I would have to get my old photo album out to see if the girls in our ward actually wore shirts over their swim suits or what, we had shaperones, but there didn't seem to be any fear of a two peice swimsuit on a young guys hormones like it is in the christians church. I guess its a double standard in our ward, no "R" movies and backmasking was a big thing, but girls could run around in a two-piece swim suit.

Answer 4

It may be "porn" but if you can fight of temptation, there is no sin here...

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Using my logic, the fighting of temptation would to not even open the magazine at all....

Answer 5

I don't know that we consider it "porn", but it's close.

We can't control what other people do, and we can't let what someone MIGHT to keep us from going out into the world. You never know what you are going to see, even just walking down the street.

Answer 6

they don't consider it porn they consider it imodest, and i love the beach! We don't judge others, we just don't do it ourselfs, who cares if toehr ppl do.