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First of all, it’s not just women appearing in pornography.

Some people believe that pornography is inherently harmful; that viewing it degrades the viewer and psychologically harms them. Making pornography “acceptable” would be accepting this harm, inflicted on countless millions of people, in order to protect the relatively tiny amount of people who perform in it.

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You're not really addressing their point. Some people believe that drugs are "inherently harmful", but an outright ban or "war on drugs" made the problem worse. It pushed drugs to the unregulated black market.

The same would happen if you were to ban porn. Demand would still be there, people would just be forced to go onto the unregulated black market to satisfy their demands. Meaning it would make the situation much worse.

If porn were to remain legal than the government can resolve these issues by proposing regulation to mitigate the abuses.

Please read my post a bit more carefully. I’m addressing the “acceptable” part, not the legality.

Again, his point that making porn more "acceptable" means that people and our government will start having open conversations about it. This means making clear rules that both acknowledge the right of these sites to exist while also ensuring actors are treated fairly.

Sticking your head in the sand like we have been doing has helped no one.

And we call such people "puritans" and don't let them dictate our moral norms.

We also call them “behavioral psychologists.”

How many many of the people telling this message publicly watch at porn privately?

Probably a similar percentage as the people with drinking problems who will tell you to abstain.

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