All that fuss over a video?

I've saved my take on a Nanyang Polytechnic student's recorded bedroom video that's making its rounds on the Internet for now, after all the hoo-hah's died down.
One: Which pervert uploaded the video? Have you no shame, no respect for those people as human beings? Anyone reading this, correct me if I'm wrong, but uploading a sex video for ALL to see requires a measure of dehumanisation of the couple involved--they cease to be intimately (lovingly is another issue I'll take up in a minute) engaged with each other and now become objects to sate another's lust. People with minds and hearts, thoughts and feelings, pasts and futures, are reduced to simple moving pixels for the sole purpose of--what?

Lustful indulgence?
Humiliation?
(Perish the thought) Fame?

I won't speculate. Congratulations, anonymous One Who Uploaded. You have succeeded in replacing two people with lives to get on with with a spectacle to behold in public. I hope you're satisfied so no one else need suffer this.

"Ell-ooh-vee-ee, that's the way it's meant to be," Hi-5 sang a few years back. To that C.S. Lewis wrote about the danger of separating sexual pleasure from the other pleasures it is meant to accompany. Monogamous sex within marriage is the only way, I feel to keep your fire under control and your message a clear "I'll be with you forever" to your spouse... especially with so much immorality, destroyed families and broken bodies and lives.
"But I have a legitimate need," someone might protest. Yes, but we have legitimate needs for food, fun, and shelter. Orson Scott Card once said growing up is learning how to delay your pleasures so you can get more than ever out of them when you finally do. Eg. you put off 24/7 fun and games to get a good education so you can enjoy a greater measure of fun than ever you did, and ensure your children get to join in. You withhold your appetite for solid food so when your teeth finally grow and take root you can partake of it without worry of a malformed jaw. And you delay sex until it is with the one you've pledged your life and future to, for that is the best, the freest of all.

Max Lucado compares sexual pleasure to an heirloom, an old black family Bible passed down through the generations. It is a precious record of his roots, plus containing the words of God Himself--so is opened and used in "special times and special places". Think about it. When you need a scrap of rough paper to jot down a number, you don't tear out a page. When you need a prop for a too-short chair leg, you don't jam the Bible under there, he says. Rather than deny sexual pleasure, Christian belief affirms it as a true gift from God, something I imagine Him crafting as carefully as possible. The flow of hormones to awaken us to this reality. The abundance of nerves in the right areas... I'd better not go any further.

But the Christian view does. It has struck many a person through the ages that those who sinned sexually were drawn towards Jesus, rather than away from Him--the only one who could see them for the erring human beings they were instead of crimes to be punished. He saw their sin as something dirtying them that only He could clean and restore. And that is precisely the Christian message: that people are fallen, and people can be redeemed.
The parties in the sex video--enough is enough. Mistakes have been made, judgement has been passed. And the punishment? Look to Calvary. We have already been punished--let the restoration begin.

End of sermon.