@Conniethesensible
How about we let consenting adults choose to do what they want in their spare time. Are you trying to get porn banned OP?
Banning porn should be given serious consideration. Yes.
It exploits performers, many of whom are underage and/or coerced and/or trafficked into the industry. And even performers who have chosen to go into it are coerced into doing things they have not consented to. This is a well known issue.
A lot of freely available porn is amateur porn uploaded without the consent of the women and girls featuring. Often the sexual acts themselves are obviously non- consensual. Even women who were raped as children and who are attempting to remove the porn films showing their rape are finding it nearly impossible to do so.
There has recently been some progress when an investigative journalist shamed credit card companies into taking action about non-consensually filmed porn, but not only was it the tip of the iceberg, the sheer number of men angrily proclaiming their right to watch women and girls being abused was a horrifying demonstration of what porn is and does: it dehumanises women and girls as a class to such an extent that these men believe access to women's and girls' bodies regardless of consent is their inalienable right.
25 years ago the majority of porn was about titillation. Today, more than 90% of freely available porn is about the humiliation, degradation and physical and sexual abuse of women and girls.
This saturation of the market with content that normalises the abuse of women and girls, that dehumanises them to this extent has an effect on the men and boys consuming porn. It teaches boys that humiliation, degradation and violence are a normal part of relationships and sexual intercourse. It normalises sexual practices that are often harmful, such as choking or anal sex.
See for instance Teen Vogue, a magazine targeted at 11 to 16 year old girls, featuring a question on what to do if a girl finds anal sex painful - not merely unpleasant - but painful. The answer was not that sex is meant to be pleasurable for both partners, that pain is not something a girl has to endure, and that the boy's enjoyment does not take precedence. No, the answer was use more lube and try again, you'll soon like it.
That's not a benign development. Women have died as a consequence of being choked and women and girls have become incontinent as a consequence of anal sex. There's a reason why the consumption of muscle relaxants is common in gay sex. Because the practice is not without risk. But porn ignores that risk and pain for the woman is often a desirable outcome in porn. Not that long ago a porn industry award was given to a scene where a performer was so brutally abused she lost consciousness and was then hospitalised due to the damage done to her. The producer continued filming, the male performers continued the scene. Abuse of performers is normal in the industry. And accepted.
About a third of young men now have a porn addiction. What that means is that they need to watch more and more extreme porn to achieve satisfaction.
And even without an addiction, the now ubiquitous depiction of women and girls being abused and humiliated in porn, has had a measurable and detrimental effect on the way these men view women and girls in society. And that has an effect on the women and girls in their lives, whether they're watching porn themselves or not. Did you know for instance that the number of young women and girls who believe that their boyfriend has a right to abuse them has risen in the last ten years? (IIRC it has doubled) That the rates of sexual harassment and physical and sexual violence against women and girls are rising?
So yeah, I would have no problem with porn being banned. Because I do not consent to all of the harm that porn does to women and girls. That it does to the men consuming it. And that it does to society.