The purpose is not to lust after the other spouse, it is solely to see what is happening/parts of the body that can’t be seen from the current position while having sex. Is this considered pornography? I’m not watching it when we are not actively in sex, so it’s not a temptation for when alone, but if this is bad I’ll delete it and confess.
Why in the world would anyone want to do something like this?
Even if it is not
per se immoral, it just seems kind of weird that a couple would wish to record this. There are just some things that are so private, and so intimate, that there’s just something “wrong” about recording them on videotape.
I do not judge or criticize someone who does this — there is an endearing Pampers commercial showing a baby just having been born (they do not show the actual parturition,
Deo gratias, that would violate American commercial TV standards, with good reason) — but I would even have a gut-level reaction to recording the birth of a child. I know people do this, but I wouldn’t.
(Not that it will ever be an issue for me, I’m 62, and even if I should ever marry — our annulment is in process, my wife petitioned for it and I am not challenging it, she’s in an invalid marriage anyway — my child-fathering days are over. I couldn’t afford it, and I’d be in my 80s when my child graduated high school.
Pace Richard Gere and Alec Baldwin, that’s unfair to the child. I do well to keep up with my high-energy Tasmanian devil of a teenage son.)
