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The amount of repressed misogynistic hate porn out there tells me that there are many people that literally get off on forced female submission.
Also restricting legal access to what we currently refer to as legal porn is going to cause an explosion of sites that don't care whether there are abused children on their site.
That could be the play though, to create this fetid atmosphere and say that's why we can't have privacy.
Yeah, it will be wild if the Seven Mountain Mandate types get their way - first of all, men are apparently not really asking women out in person. You have dating apps skewing things in crazy ways (apparently; thankfully I've never used them and hope I never do). According to stats, young people are not having sex at the rates that they did in the past...
If the 7MM people get their way, they will: wedge boring xtian content into entertainment that only the most douchey people are going to want to watch. They are going to roll back things like access to cannabis and who knows, maybe alcohol. Everything is so goddamned expensive for so many things anyway. Jobs are a shitshow and many men just don't have the skills or education. Then you cut off access to porn?
Young men are going to do what else other than lose their minds? What outlet are they going to have? Video games? Even that may become out of the reach of many, at least for more recent games/hardware....are they just supposed to spiral out on "social" media and Youtube?
What is 7MM planning to do to substitute in an outlet for youth into the culture? Try to bring back square dancing? Are they going to go to the soda fountains on Main Street?
It would make sense because the pursuit of square dancing in the 1940's in the United States was part of Ford's agenda to push out the influence of black jazz in schools.
Also, according to the Country Dance & Song Society, square dancing is only held together by layers of whitewashed black history. The Smithsonian goes further to say that Native American people also influenced the music.
But, to answer your question, Christian churches do create a community and have events where people hang out, pray, etc. As a child the church I was brought to had outreach events where we handed out food, protested, and we once helped clean up some weird factory building. It's easier for an org like that to get people to come together. There is guilt for missing service and people constantly ask you to do this thing or that.
I'm not sure how it would be accomplished, but creating non-religious community centers would be a huge benefit.