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There's a mob of religious (and some non-religious) activists waiting around for any excuse to raise hell as soon as one of these companies makes any attempt to legitimize porn.

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Porn is legal. You are thinking more of any attempt to make porn non-censored and relaxing regulatory restrictions on the distribution of porn. Yes, feminists & the religious "right" will raise hell because they're the primary reason porn is so inflammatory in this country.

legitimize != legalize

> Porn is legal.

In some jurisdictions. In some it's in "gray" area (laws are uncertain or badly worded), and it some it's completely illegal.

Also laws usually make distinction between production, distribution and consumption of porn.

In the USA, I think it's only legal to be created in California IIRC.

I'd guess the majority of anti-porn activist are not religious in a traditional sense but feminists. But thats just what I think and I live in Europe.

That seems very unlikely to be true in the US. There are far more very strongly religious people here than there are strongly religious people, and a considerably larger percentage of religious people than feminists are anti-porn.

While religious groups are likely quite a bit larger and louder (and thus politically relevant) in the US than in europe, there are certainly very strong feminist groups in the picture in the US as well. For reference, see the ongoing debate on the ACA contraception mandate (if feminism held no sway over religious groups, it would be dead and buried long ago) and the fact that abortion is a perennial topic of debate. (Incidentally, most countries in Europe have abortion laws that would be completely unpalatable to US women's groups - on-demand abortion is generally only allowed in the first trimester, while Planned Parenthood fought for the right to partial birth abortion in the US in 2006).

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