thejewishindependent.com.au By Mira Fox
It’s really not as shocking as it sounds that a rabbi has become one of the top officials running Pornhub, the free internet pornography behemoth. After all, the investment group that bought Pornhub is called Ethical Capital Partners. And Solomon Friedman, the rabbi in question and the investment company’s co-founder and chief compliance officer, is trying to clean up internet porn.
Most people might be confused by the idea of a religious leader being involved with a pornography company; after all, isn’t lust a sin? Aren’t rabbis supposed to be a kind of moral police?
But Judaism is actually pretty sex positive; most Jewish texts about sex focus on understanding and regulating the act, not warning people of its dangers. The Talmud has passages instructing husbands to have regular sex with their wives, emphasizing the importance of pleasure and encouraging experimentation. There’s even a tale of a student hiding under his rabbi’s bed when his teacher has sex with his wife; when the student is caught, he argues that everything is Torah and he was just trying to learn…
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