your views on modern day porn consumption

[TheRealJoeFish]

I am flat out not stimulated by pornography. Personally, I think it's gross. Not, like, "pornography is gross." But, like, I have an aversive reaction to viewing pornography myself.

That said, I think pornography should be widely available and legal, with significant attention paid to 1) any possible means of exploitation with an accompanying focus on ways to remedy that, and 2) prevention of addiction and other sorts of problems and exacerbations of mental disorders that can be caused or contributed to by pornography.

That is to say, for me pornography fits into the category of things that can be harmful if misused but should be generally allowable in a free society (alcohol, pot, tobacco, hunting, fast food, and such). We should allow the activity in general while policing the possible misuses; deciding what is a "misuse" should be based on an application of theories of social welfare and personal liberty, and not on an extrinsic moral system. In other words, we shouldn't say "act x between consenting and informed adults is wrong," rather, we should say "act x can lead to negative consequences y and z," and make laws to try to prevent y and z.