[jla]

If you don't like porn, don't buy it.

I don't and you're attempting to rationalize it by making it appear to be a personal freedom issue instead of what it actually is, and that's a sordid medium which degrades and abases a most beautiful act, the physical expression of love between a man and a woman.
Sorry, but porn, and prostitution, are not victimless when they both overfill into and sully our culture. Not to mention the other 'benefits' like depressed neighborhoods, drug use, theft and a proliferation of sexually transmitted diseases, which are undeniably linked and intensified to the presence or production of pornography.

So you see, it's not merely a matter of me turning the channel or switching it off. Regardless of doing this I and millions of others must take precautions against your victimless hobby.

[Moral Hazard]

What about the benefit of the sexual gratification of the viewer?

[Ostlandr]

". . .you're attempting to rationalize it by making it appear to be a personal freedom issue instead of what it actually is, and that's a sordid medium which degrades and abases a most beautiful act, the physical expression of love between a man and a woman."

The two aren't mutually exclusive. It's both a Constitutional issue (First Amendment) and a really nasty garbage heap.

What I'm trying to say is, if nobody bought the smut, and women (and men) refused to pose or perform, the entire porn industry would dry up and blow away.

Prohibition of alcohol was a complete failure- it took individuals making responsible choices and drinking less to change the "booze culture" in the US.

If we stop buying drugs, the entire drug industry will dry up and blow away.

We could wipe out venerial disease in a single generation if everybody followed Judeo-Christian sexual morality.

BTW, porn is not a hobby of mine, and I never implied that porn is victimless- just constitutionally protected, and not the universal social ill that you claim it to be.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Pornography is an idolatry of perversion where fantasy is the medium of infinitization.

Who is the prince of phantasms?

[Constantine XIII]

No doubt the Porn Tax general prudishness of the mother country was one of the Founding Father's primary reasons for casting off the chains of British oppression.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Have you ever noticed the "Free Speech"freaks always refer to 'speech' involving sedition, treason and praise and protection of vice addiction?