>>260044I actually more or less agree with you. However, I think that "porn" is a rather broad category, and I also think trying to reduce it to a binary argument of "porn should be allowed" versus "porn should not be allowed" oversimplifies the issue.
MLP-related porn, and the broader category of hand-drawn (or 3D animated) R34 type stuff based on fictional properties, I think falls into the category of fairly innocuous porn that causes little to no social harm. It's mostly niche pornography that appeals specifically to fans of the franchise, and has little appeal outside of the niche. You can also dismiss a fair amount of it as parody or humor
although let's be honest here, we all know that most of us unironically wank to this stuff.
Anthro porn and humanized loli porn and things like that are considerably more disgusting, but it still falls within the category of niche appeal. "Commissions" are usually requested by a very small group of dedicated fans, and drawn by an even smaller dedicated group that churns this stuff out. A larger but still comparatively small group of orbiters lurk around communities like e621 and paheal to collect and categorize it. These are basically people who elevate hobby-related porn into a hobby of its own. I'm guessing most of us can probably say that we have a horsepussy folder somewhere on our hard drive, but also that our lives don't revolve around collecting, creating or consuming it as is the case for some.
You can probably compare niche pornography fandoms (furries, cloppers, people obsessed with weird fetishes like vore, etc) to habits like meth consumption or drinking moonshine. The people who draw this stuff are basically the guys who operate barnyard stills or basement meth labs, in that these are usually not large-scale mass-distribution operations, but small-time businesses created by people who are participants/addicts themselves, who sell mostly to a small number of dedicated clients. Is it healthy to be involved in something like this to the point that it consumes a major portion of your life? No, and there is arguably broader social harm if people's obsessions/addictions cause them to start doing antisocial things, for instance a lolicon addict who suddenly decides he needs the real thing and starts kidnapping children. However, I think that kind of thing is probably rare; most of these guys just commission art, trade it with each other, and jack off in their rooms, and their fetish rarely spreads to the general public. Your average normie, for instance, might have a vague idea what a furry is, but has probably never heard of e621.
Porn in general, though, I think has become a broad social problem, and the coomer epidemic is real. Ordinary human on human porn has much broader appeal than anthro-futa-MLP-Pokemon-crossover gangbang smut, and I think the easy availability of it combined with the other problems created by the sexual revolution has created a situation where a large number of men become addicted to porn both as a substitute for real relationships and as an escape from the general shittiness of everyday life. The porn industry, in this case, is comparable to large-scale drug operations like the Mexican cartel, who flood communities with meth and create addicts out of people who otherwise would never have tried it.
I was a teenager in the late 90s and didn't even have an internet connection until I was in 10th grade. Even then it was dial up, so if I wanted to see porn it meant I had to wait until everyone was asleep, and usually spend a couple hours waiting for a 30-second low-resolution clip to download. My first exposure to hardcore porn was a VHS tape my friend stole from his parents' room, of a movie that was copyrighted in 1981. That tape became our most precious possession; we used to fight over who got to keep it and for how long. Apart from that, I mostly remember wanking to swimsuit and lingerie ads in the newspaper, or just using my imagination most of the time.
I actually find it really hard to imagine growing up in a world where you can just instantly access literal gigabytes of hardcore porn on a phone, but I can't imagine this shit is in any way healthy. Considering how obsessed I remember being with the little bits and snippets of porn I was able to get hold of as a teenager (and how much trouble I went through to get it), I can easily see how it could take over a susceptible person and warp their mind, particularly if that person is as socially autistic as I was
and still am.
In general though I think the coomer epidemic is just a symptom of a larger social decline. A society with a good moral foundation can afford to tolerate a little degeneracy on the fringes, as long as it stays discreet and contained; it's only a problem if it goes mainstream. It's the same thing as with the gay rights stuff. Homosexuals don't really cause that much trouble if they keep their behavior private and stay in their little districts, but once it gets to the point where you've got pride parades on every street and trannies waving their dicks at children and so forth, normies begin to realize that there's a reason we used to make these people stay in the closet.
Anyway, I think it's a waste of time and resources to try and completely eliminate porn, but I do think the commercial porn industry should be shut down. Maybe just make it a crime to produce it commercially or sell it, and then push it off of mainstream sites and into fringe corners of the internet like this place, where people would have to be looking for it in order to find it.