Sacrilege yes. And yes to flipping the switch. The Yetzer Hora will not come to a ben torah and say flip the switch, big deal. But the yetzer will come to a person already just a shell of a yid and say big deal, make the coffee or tea. And then take it from there. Porn addiction,which can often come from that first image, will quickly turn a ben or bas torah (although rarely females) into a burnt out shell of a yid. He’ll daven, eat kosher, maybe even cholov yisroel. For a while. Then those too will start eroding. The yetzer doesn’t care how you dress or what you do in terms of mitzvos. Buy a $180 esrog, eat in the succah, whatever. It knows when it has the person. And this is an unusually bad issue. Before WW2 the people who were OTD were completely off. No yiddishkeit at all. Today we can fool ourselves. Wear a black hat big deal, wear a shtreimel big deal. Yetzer Hora whispers – hey guy/girl, all I need is a small aveirele, miss a mincha, eat some salad in the Korean salad bar, and make sure you stick to your porn regimen. I’ve got you.
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