[NSFW] What are your thoughts on the porn industry?

Porn, like drugs is here to stay. We men are slaves to our nether regions and there’s no getting around it. Personally, the films never do it for me. I have yet to see a single one in which I haven’t been distracted into criticizing the production values. I’ve never understood the widespread fascination with the things. Turning to porn when you’re horny is to me like asking a hungry man to watch movies of gluttons stuffing themselves.

Sex sells, always has, always will.

In the world of prostitution, porn stars can be considered as the higher (if not the highest, above high-class prostitute) tier of the job. Porn stars get paid more, has better advertisements (therefore, more choices and wider range of customers), flexible hours (unless for they take multiple jobs), and other benefits not easily available for common prostitute.

For the abuse part, the applicants have signed for it thus they know what they’re in for and lets not forget about the money that they could’ve attained (some get paid act by act, whereas for individual home-produced porn they get more if they get more views).

As the verdict, I must say that despite porn and porn-making are plagued with moral issue it’s a good way to make some money, especially when you’re in dire need of it. Some porn stars may ‘seemed’ to be abused in porn but that is simply an act (based on what porn audiences most likely to fantasize) and so long as it’s legal in the contract it’s good for both sides. Believe it or not, she won’t complain on her way to bank.

I applaud your decision to go porn free. It can have a very negative effect on many men, warping their views of sexuality and women as well as propagating a mostly, pain and shame based industry., Yep, porn is here to stay but as a a women in her middle/later 50’s and having divorced a man with a porn habit over the years, that was problematic in the marriage and as a female that has seen the spreading ( pun intended ) of hardcore porn over a 40 year span, it is out of control and can be very damaging to all involved. It’s easy to “relate” sexually to images in a movie or magazine but much harder to attain intimacy with a real women in real life.

The problem with porn for many is they use it as an intimacy substitute at the expense of their own relating skills and those of the significant women in their lives. Like any addictive substance, a little is never enough and for many it takes over their lives completely. I have a 20 something daughter and feel the same way, and am glad she never got involved in the sex industry, however, had I had a son I would have really educated him as to the potential pit falls of going down the slippery slope of porn.
From a women who has seen the enormous erection of the porn industry from downtown movie theaters and drive ins on the outskirts of town in the 70’s to the advent of the VCR and the glut of home porn viewing and the rise of 100’s of strip clubs that are as common place as fast food restaurants these days.

40 years of steady mainstreaming and yep, I have known many relationships that have suffered from the mans porn and strip club addictions over the years and while I believe people are free to make their own choices I am not going to sugar coat the dark side of the sex industry. I think of porn as the junk food of sexuality, tastes, good, is filling, satiates your appetite but is devoid of true nutritional value and a steady diet will ruin the health of the consumer and that of their intimate relationships.

Porn? The driver of the technology revolution of the last 40 years? Why did VHS beat Betamax? Porn. Why did DVD take over so well? Porn. The growth of the internet and the World Wide Web? Porn. Why is DVD dying while streaming is everywhere? Porn.

At its ground level, it has become quite boring and does not pay well.

AS long as it is done legally ,safely, and the actors are there on their own free will, I have no problem with it.

I personally think it is a dreadful reflection of where modern mans priorities have drifted to. Over stimulation of our senses in any fashion leads to a very unhealthy relationship with that activity…and internet porn is fueling a very convenient and IMO unhealthy relationship with sex as our OP has intoned in this question. One can argue that the degrading abusive imagery presented in much of today’s porn is harmless voyeuristic escape but what I have seen today that is free and easily accessible to people of any age is cause for concern.

Don’t get me wrong…well filmed porn can be incredibly fun and stimulating to watch, but there is an overwhelming amount of degrading footage of women being used and abused and even if it is “staged” it IMO crosses the line as to what is healthy sexual role play to sensational promotion of the degradation of sexual partners especially women.

The porn industry is the ultimate desensitizer.

I’m with @SQUEEKY2. As long as everyone is of age and there willingly, I have no problem with it. Watching too much porn can be detrimental to the watcher, but so can, say, drinking too much alcohol be a problem for the drinker. Porn, like so many things, is what we make of it.