“I’m not married to the woman in the Song, and the man isn’t either.”

The author of the song of Songs uses words to visualise the sexual encounter of two people not married to each other. The compilers of the Hebrew Bible invite congregations (if that is the correct word in that context) to delight, individually and collectively, in that lavishly detailed scene. So, no, if pornography is looking at pictures, visual or verbal, God seems not to have a problem with it.

But look at something other than sexuality to ponder the nature of pornography. Politics, for example. I frequently use the term “political pornography” and never have to explain what I mean. People see the obscenity of self-serving abuse of power as pornographic once it is pointed out. Self-serving abuse of sexual allure is not what is going on in the song of Songs. What is going on there should be embraced as part of a healthy life.