“Masturbation is one of the reasons pornography is so successful.” “For this act to be carried out to satisfaction, male or female, the mind has to dwell on sordid and filthy imagery,” Swaggart declared. It’s just that God intended that these desires to be satisfied between husband and wife,” he said.īut he also counseled against certain sex acts between husband and wife as “unclean or a kind of perversion,” he said.
“There are sexual needs, wants, and desires built into the human body that are perfectly legitimate.
The human sex drive is God-given, he said. To the objection that some “clean” movies are also shown, Swaggart argued that the coming previews might not be and that it was a waste of money to support jaded actors and actresses. “The majority of films today are filled with profanity, obscenity, nudity, vulgarity, and the like,” Swaggart wrote. Repeatedly, Swaggart said believers “must never forget their body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).” “Whenever my wife and I go swimming or to a beach we always go to a secluded spot where there are few, if any, people. Though public swimming is permissible among friends and kin, Christian females should not wear “skimpy bathing attire,” Swaggart said.
