If watching or displaying pornography is socially acceptable behavior, walk down the street browsing a copy of some pornographic magazine and check out the reactions you will get. Try and give it to a child with their parent present and see what type of reaction you will get. Watch porn in broad daylight in your front yard.
I find you socially unacceptable. Does this mean I can outlaw you?
If watching or displaying pornography is socially acceptable behavior, walk down the street browsing a copy of some pornographic magazine and check out the reactions you will get. Try and give it to a child with their parent present and see what type of reaction you will get. Watch porn in broad daylight in your front yard.
Sex with my wife is legal too. It's also socially acceptable.
Doing it on the street rather than in the privacy of my own home is different. Doing it in broad daylight in my front yard would get me arrested, for sure. Doing it in front of your kid with both of you watching would probably make you both barf, since my wife and I are 59.
Your example doesn't hold water.
There are certain things that are acceptable behavior in the privacy of ones' own home, which taken to illogical extremes, cease to be acceptable. Looking at "dirty pictures" is one of them. IMHO. Sexual predation, on the other hand, is not acceptable. Period.
Prostitution is socially unacceptable.
Pornography is just videotaped prostitution.
If prostitution is illegal, videotaping prostitution should be also.
Taking a shower naked is perfectly acceptable unless you do it outside in front of your neighbors. Same thing with reading Playboy. OK indoors, bad outside around the kids.
Try giving my kid a beer and see how far you get. Yet, I have beer in the fridge for my own consumption. Whether something is appropriate for children has nothing to do with whether or not it's socially acceptable.
Actually, that is no longer true.
Porn stars are now on the NYT bestseller list.
They have their own entertainment businesses.
If it were socially unacceptable, they wouldn't dare use their real names.
Hell, one even ran for Governor of California.