They cited the scandals surrounding the Jewish former Congressman Anthony Weiner as an example of the “addictive dangers of pornography”.
Mr Weiner has been caught “sexting”, sending naked or semi-naked pictures of himself to others, on at least three occasions. Earlier this week his wife announced she intended to separate from her husband, after he sent a topless photo of himself which included his four-year-old son in the background.
Rabbi Boteach and Ms Anderson called for “a sensual revolution” to “replace pornography with eroticism, the alloying of sex with love, of physicality with personality, of the body’s mechanics with imagination, of orgasmic release with binding relationships.”
“We must educate ourselves and our children to understand that porn is for losers — a boring, wasteful and dead-end outlet for people too lazy to reap the ample rewards of healthy sexuality,” they wrote.
