The demand for child sex is fueled by porn & fornication which in turn comes from decoupling sex from procreation, marriage, and family.
Ultimately, this has its source in idolatry and the rejection of God.
We're being shown in real-time the logical progression of liberalism. Rejection of Jesus -> Rejection of external divine authority and law -> acceptance of internal authority and do whatever I want -> acceptance of birth control -> sex is for fun -> acceptance of divorce -> acceptance of baby murder -> acceptance of child sex etc. etc. etc.
Disagree on 1 point. Sex in marriage is intended for pleasure and true connection. I feel bad for those who miss out on this because they believe the lie it should only be for procreation. A healthy marriage is sexy and fun.
Is the biological purpose of eating 1) nutrition or 2) pleasure?
Why does it have to be either/or and not both/and?
Eating for pleasure does have its risks, and excessive eating, aka gluttony, is warned against in scripture. Yet Christ ate and drank, so much so that the Pharisees tried to accuse him of gluttony.
Eating also has another pleasurable aspect: the fellowship that it facilitates. Hanging out with your friends is always more fun when you have something good to eat, right?
And if eating can have its pleasurable aspects, then so can sex within marriage.
Did God not create the human reproductive system? Both men and women have organs in the reproductive system whose sole purpose is to create feelings of pleasure.
Don’t attribute to Satan the good things that God has given for us to enjoy in the right place at the right time.
the pleasure of sex is not the primary purpose, it is procreation. the pleasure is so we do it because it is an important thing to have children and families. if you make sex about pleasure then it morphs into porn, beastiality, pedo, fornication, and all sorts of horrors.
This idea is not supported by scripture in the slightest. There is the commandment for Adam and Eve (and the descendants of Noah) to be fruitful and multiply, but that does not imply anything about the relative importance of pleasure in sexual intimacy. You are reading into the Bible something that isn't there.
Then explain Song of Solomon. Children are hardly mentioned, if at all. Yes, it can be used as a metaphor, but the metaphor doesn't make sense unless the physical or literal aspect is at least somewhat true.
Also explain Hebrews 13:4, "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whore mongers and adulterers God will judge." No children mentioned there either.
It is not the focus on pleasure that is the problem. It is the obsession and idolization of it. The problem is not the pleasure, it is man's tendency to reject God's boundaries regarding how the pleasure is derived.
God created some things, like food and sex, that are inherently pleasurable when they didn't really have to be. He created them that way because He wants us to have good things and enjoy them, again according to His design (which actually makes these things the most enjoyable without the guilt and consequences of sin). The fact that Satan and our sin nature twist these desires into something abominable, doesn't render the original pleasure itself sinful or "lesser".