Is porn bad now? I find it a weird topic for anything called "Democratic Underground"...

[Xithras]

237. I've tried to beat a couple of the anti-porners over the head with that fact.

The actual number isn't quite 99%, but the vast majority of porn items on the Internet today are produced by amateurs and are shot by home video cameras and phones. While the bulk of the porn economy still tends to flow to the corporate porn studios, the majority of the actual items are created by Joe or Jane down the street.

A rather large segment of the human population has some exhibitionist tendencies (a fact that has been recorded since the dawn of human history), and it's generally social stigma that keeps them in check. The Internet has long provided a fairly anonymous platform for people to indulge in their exhibitionist tendencies. The odds of any particular nude selfie or home movie being connected to an individual are fairly small. I'm fairly certain that there are some nude photos of me floating around on the Internet, and I'm absolutely positive that there are some of my wife. I'm not particularly concerned about it, because the photos mean nothing without names attached, and with seven billion of us walking around this planet, the chances of anyone connecting those photos to me, as an individual, are about the same as the odds of me getting hit by lightning.

The anti-porners just ignore the facts. Their arguments may have been valid 30 years ago, but nowadays you could ban ALL commercial porn production and it would barely make a dent in the overall amount of porn being published to the Internet every single day. In fact, to make a statement that might shock a few of the people I've been arguing with...I actually don't have any argument against legally limiting the commercial production of porn. So long as consenting individuals maintain the ability to create, share, and even sell their own private works, I couldn't really give a damn about the big commercial ventures.