Your opinion on pornography.

[Prophet 451]

56. Both protected and, in and of itself, not harmful

For the sake of argument, let's define "porn" to be the explicit depiction of sexual intercourse. Now, to start with, that leaves aside softcore porn (which outsell hardcore by a very large margin) and includes people producing porn for it's own sake (such as exhibitionists).

The question becomes, is the act of viewing people having sexual intercourse inherently harmful to the viewer (assuming the viewer is an adult)? No, I don't think it is.

But that's not to say that all forms of porn are harmless. I think there are forms of porn which are inherently harmful to the viewer and degrading to the actor/actress. "Rape porn" is one example. Whether that includes porn which contains violence is one of those "know it when I see it" situations. There's a fine line between porn depicting consensual BDSM and porn depicting outright abuse.

I must also add that the porn industry (as distinct from it's product) needs a hell of a lot of cleaning up. It's grossly under-regulated and pretty much everyone is underpaid.