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Is this legal?

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It is undeniable that porn has a negative effect on Women ie. what they're supposed to look like and how they're supposed to act.

I always thought people said that about modeling. Just for fun, I deny that porn has a negative effect on Women, Outsiders. Prove me wrong.

Also this begs the question: does gay male pornography have a negative effect? Does it effect Women? Men? Anyone? ;)

Lastly it isn't a mistake that the pornographic industry makes more money a year than professional baseball, basketball and football combined.

I'd be very surprised if that were true. Simply for the sake of curiosity, could you point me in the direction of where you found this information?
 
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There are plenty of women who enjoy porn just as much as men do. The first porn video I saw with a girlfriend, she rented it and brought it over.

Isn't sex addictive? How isn't porn? Aren't they both means of gratification...
Sex is definitely an enjoyable occasional pastime to most of us adults out there but there are indeed a few certain unfortunate persons out there with certain neuroses who will pick up on becoming addicted to it. However, not everyone becomes a mindless rutting stag after their first mating experience or porn video, or even their 50th.

The addictive / fixation behaviors related to sex: looking at it, thinking about it, wanking in men's rooms, having trysts in alleys, etc. most often goes back to abuse in childhood. Be it molestation or quite often the opposite, being ignored from the parent of the opposite sex. Females ignored by their fathers may become promiscuous or seek out relations with older (and often married) men. However, males can also go that route if they are continually looking for mother and in adulthood this translates to multiple partners. Both of these is searching for attention and actually has very little to do with sex and more to do with finding those missing bonds, which they never get from these behaviors.

Neither of these scenarios of young adult sex addicts has anything to do with porn initially in their psychological makeup but they can eventually lead to excessive looking at porn, trysts in alleys, wanking in men's rooms and all the rest. However, these behaviors are effects of their sexual addiction, not the cause. Most persons in these sorts of addiction spirals are NOT enjoying themselves, whether they are addicted to sex, drugs, food, alcohol, etc.. That's what an addiction is, doing something because you have to, not because you want to. An addict knows when they are an addict and are doing something because they have to (because it has become pleasureless to them even if it was initially), whether they will admit it to themselves or anyone else is another story...
 
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Outsiders - I don't see most of the people saying they see nothing wrong with exposing children to pornography. Personally, I think the junk food and beverages spread around a store are a far greater hazard to children (and to adults) than the rack of pornography near the register. There are a lot of problems and some are big and some are little. Some have simple solutions and some are difficult. Believing we should start with big problems that have simple solutions, pornography ends up pretty far down on my to-do list.

Pornography is a big business and I've seen numbers (of unknown reliability) saying it's a $10+ billion industry in the US. I don't know how that compares with sports, but I'm more worried about the $17 billion of marketing that targets children.
 
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