The Politics of Chastity

Abstract

Reinhard Hütter has authored an excellent and much-needed essay on the virtue of chastity, with a special focus on the unprecedented threat to this virtue posed by contemporary online pornography. His essay addresses the moral and spiritual aspects of the issue, as illuminated by both natural law and divine revelation. But there is also a crucial political dimension that the essay does not address, though it too is illuminated by Hütter’s insights. I propose in this essay to supplement Hütter’s account with some remarks on this dimension.