Yup, we can always nail ol' Ted Bundy on the catch-22, can't we? Bundy claims that pornography was a factor (not the only factor, but a factor) in making him into the swell guy he turned out to be, but since that swell guy turned out to be a serial murderer, we can claim that he has no credibility on the subject. How can we possibly believe anything that the glib-tongued Bundy had to say about anything (especially when the topic at hand was himself and his thought process and the effect that pornography had on that process)?
As if there could be a better expert on Bundy's thought process than Bundy, himself.
"Our industry is, for the most part, recession-proof," said Jim Monroe, vice president of Van Nuys-based Vivid Video, one of the world's largest producers of explicit adult entertainment.
So are most industries that depend on an addicted population to keep business rolling smoothly. Of course, if the industry was unable to endlessly recruit new "adult" film "stars" to satisfy the jaded and bored clientele (how many more times can someone get their jollies from the same old video they've already seen hundreds of times?), and was forced to rely instead on an increasingly aging set of "actors" ("Debbie, Age 62, Attempts To Do Dallas One More Time"), I wonder how recession-proof the industry would be...
Clearly no one knew the inside of Bundy's brain better than Bundy himself, the question becomes: would Bundy tell the truth. One of the things you see in serial killers (if you read enough true crime) is that they really like to play their audience. They get off on being smarter than the people around them and have a real tendency to snowball them. John Douglas (author of Mindhunter and a nubmer of other books, also one of the FBI's top profilers) interviewed a lot of serial killers (unfortunately Bundy was already dead by the time he started this) to get a grasp of their inner workings. He says the most useful phrase he found when interviewing these guys was "cut the crap, I'm not buying the BS you feed your shrink, tell me the truth"; after that he'd get a very different line of reasoning than the standard line (like Son of Sam admitting the whole messages from the dog thing was BS, he thought it sounded cool and figured they'd buy it). So you really have to take their "self analysis" with quite a few grains of salt, the truthfulness will largely depend on how much they respect the interviewer.
(how many more times can someone get their jollies from the same old video they've already seen hundreds of times?)
I don't know, how many times can people get their hollies from having sex with the same old spouse they've already had sex with hundreds of times? Strikes me that those numbers will be pretty similar.
But you're assuming Bundy was being honest - which given his life story is highly doubtful or at the very least calls his credibility into question.