Psychology disagrees. Numerous studies on the harmful sociological effects of "casual" sex aren't something to casually dismiss. Whether you respect science or not, you're going to have a hard time debating that they know more than you, collectively, on a wide variety of subjects. I'd like to see you try to build a large hadron collider from scratch; I sure as sh*t couldn't do it.
Point is, what you don't know can bite you in the @ss. And it's not like most people spend any amount of time thinking about the repercussions of their actions, which is why we have drunk drivers and whoopsie-babies. People just don't think. They'd rather f*ck around and have someone else mop up after them when the sh*t finally hits the fan. That's not coming from a place of hostility, it's a simple truth. You've complained about similar things around here before, and for good reason.
Services are neither good nor bad. They just are. Different services are useful for different people. That's why the free market is so great because you can buy whatever you want and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks... and when you do buy something, not only do you benefit but so does the other person.
You're right, a service is morally ambiguous. My point was that the intention motivating the service and the circumstances enacted by way of the service are very much matters of ethical concern. This isn't a matter of capitalist ideology, this is a matter of the effects human actions have on other humans and themselves. If somebody hires a guy to sneak into your house while you're on vacation and lace your oven with plastic explosives, are you telling me you'd just say, "Hey, it's just business! If I gotta die so somebody can make a buck bringing harm to me, I guess that's just how it goes! At least he can buy a few more hookers this week. Lord knows they've got daddy-issues to work out."
Of course not. Your survival instinct wouldn't let you treat it that casually. And part of living in a humane society is making considerations for other peoples' welfare. When you don't see any point in worrying about others (and I know for a fact that there are people you care about in life, so don't try to affect indifference) then you need to ask yourself some very hard questions about why you are so apathetic and unable to concern yourself with long-term effects. Because there's a diagnosis for that: sociopathy. (Not that I'm saying you're a sociopath, I just don't think you've really got a lot of this stuff figured out yet, primarily because it hasn't been a focus of your personal development.)
P0rn is a great service. If you don't like it, then don't buy it. It doesn't matter if you think it's a good thing.
Like I said before, I do like it. That's exactly my problem. You may not be able or willing to see the consequences of people making "professional" p0rn but I certainly can. I have a talent for deductive reasoning, and it get's a lot of use in my down-time. This happens to be something I've spent a lot of time contemplating.
No one's being exploited.
That's a matter of perspective. I'm not so much interested in whether they think it's what they want as I am in the effects it has on their lives. People with Stockholm Syndrom don't believe they are victims, but it sure as hell starts out that way. The problem, in my opinion, is that women have taken way to "masculine" a perspective on the subject. In the same way that the general perspective was way too "feminine" in bygone centuries. Both outlooks are essentially radicalizations, even sort of parodies, of how actual human minds work. (Well, with the exception of actual outliers; people with six fingers per hand don't define our definition of how many fingers humans have and likewise people with a natural over-abundance of either sex's hormone don't define how the average human functions on a sexual level.)
Just explaining my own circumstances, dude. Chill out. Don't have a heart attack over all this honesty and feeling-cr@, alright? You're gonna be okay, just breathe!
OMggggg stop... sex is like literally any other activity. You don't lose your "higher self" for taking part it in for fun.
I know, right? What family needs Monopoly when they can just have one big, incestuous orgie? No hugs for me, dad! I'll take the d*ck! C'mon, dude, that wasn't just a weak argument, it was also just a little lazy, don't you think? Sex is
not like any other activity, and if you've ever had it (which I'm assuming you have) then you know as well as anyone else that it bears no resemblance to playing with a yo-yo or picking salad outta your teeth with a toothpick. (Both being extreme counter-examples, obviously.) And as to losing your higher self, there's a wealth of
both ancient and modern teachings that say exactly the opposite, so unless you're trying to say you're better-informed than some of the brightest minds in human history...? No? Yep, then that boat don't float!
Incidentally, I'm not trying to knee-cap you, dude. I don't get the impression you're a bad dude. Just trying to pass along the fruits of like half of the waking hours of my life. There's no rule that says you've gotta listen, but you might have some serious "ah-ha" moments if you give it all a little think-see. Just saying.