Editor, the Times:

The Abbotsford-Mission Times used to be a family newspaper.

I was shocked to see pornography on the front page of your paper on Nov 20.

You seem to have no idea of how harmful entrapment pornography is to all men, especially to our young men in their early teens.

There are already too many porn images available everywhere for those who still want to feed their minds on "junk sex." I don't want to do that anymore.

And I object to being subjected to pictures that demean and dehumanize women and cause great harm to marriages. I cut the picture out and burned it.

But the image of that pornographic picture had burned itself on my mind with one quick glance. It took several hours before it was gone, even though I immediately turned away from it.

If I had not applied what I learned in the Valiant Man course at Northview [Community Church], it would still be there.

What is more, that picture on the screen of my mind would have led to repeated undesirable thoughts that could have led to undesirable behaviours that in the past have dogged me, and kept me from being a good partner to my dear wife.

That is why I object, when you subject us to porn on the front page of what used to be a family newspaper.

Walt Friesen Abbotsford