Pornography: Sexual Window-Shopping

I have a confession to make: I have never understood the concept of window-shopping. To me, the practice always seemed to be little more than an exercise in intellectual and emotional masochism. Window-shoppers feed their innate human desire for material goods by staring helplessly at goods which they cannot obtain.

Women are more prone to be window-shoppers than men. (I have no idea why that is.) But men are more likely to “window-shop” in a far more destructive way: namely, by engaging in the scourge of pornography. 

Pornography is the sexual equivalent of window-shopping. People who watch pornography attempt to feed their gnawing desire for companionship and pleasure by looking at other people whom they desire sexually but cannot "obtain," so to speak. 

But whereas women are more inclined to stare at purchasable objects in attempts to satisfy an urge to possess those goods, men objectify women to satisfy their own personal pleasure. 

Pornography is obviously more problematic than window-shopping on a moral level. For window-shopping merely encourages others to engage in longing for things they cannot satisfy. But pornography does far more damage to the human soul and spirit than window-shopping could. It causes people - mostly men - to objectify other people for the purposes of stimulating sexual pleasure.
It’s a peculiar trait of human beings that we want what we can never have. We want more, more, more, and are never, ever satisfied, except in God and his love.
Pornography encourages this evil tendency; it causes humans to want sexual pleasure for themselves which they cannot obtain. It is an evil form of sexual "window-shopping," reducing others to objects to attempt to gratify urges which cannot be satisfied.