". . .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.
If people stopped murdering people the entire murder problem would dry up and blow away...
We can't criminalize everything that's intrinsically evil, but there's little downside to criminalizing porn. The worst that would happen is that it would go back underground, where it belongs.