Pornography should remain legal

Premise - The Purpose of Law As is obvious with this topic, many points of mine will be related to safety. Pro is likely to have the contention that is not the law's right to infringe on the autonomy of the person in relation to their personal safety. I would like to set the premise that law has the right to withdraw autonomy to preserve safety and that it does.Law firstly, has no set purpose. It is defined as "the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties". Law in itself is a system of rules and regulation, to enforce a certain purpose. Said purpose, unless written down, can only be determined by its rules. Sharia law for example has laws in areas ranging from right conduct to the Qur'an, and can be assumed that the purpose of the law is to withhold Islamic morality and lifestyle. Christian law also covers the similar areas, relating from marriage to sacrifice thus it can be inferred that Christian law wants to withhold Christian morality. Hypothetically, if a country devotes all of its law to road safety, then the purpose of that country's law is to withhold road safety. If a country has law only focusing on correct form of pagan worship, then the purpose of the law in that country is to keep the correct form of pagan worship.If we relate that to the U.S, I presume, then law can generally be seen in five areas. Harm, donation, moral, government and donation. The purpose of harm is to prevent people being harmed by others. Purpose of donation relates to law granting goods or services to its citizens. Parental includes neglect of children and keeping children safe, morality is to withhold morals, usually religious and governmental law is for its own protection, e.g espionage. We see from harm, parental and moral that law has interests in the safety of its people. Each and every person is a part of the country and each person is part of the group the government is for. Therefore safety is a part of that and although autonomy is important, what use is it when it is detrimental upon oneself? Which is where pornography comes in.I. The Harm of Pornography1. Harm to Those who Watch PornPorn releases dopamine, when watched. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain, released whenever a reward is given. Whenever somebody experiences something they see as a reward, dopamine is released, so the person feels elated. This includes pornography. However, tantamount to heroin, the body develops tolerance towards it. Whenever somebody watched porn and feels elated, over time they become used to it and it no longer a "reward", thus they seek more. They constantly seek more than this leads to a range of problems. Norman Doidge, a psychologist studied this and this is what he concluded could happen, and what this means:a) Increased difficulty becoming aroused.b) They did not find their partners as attractivec) They had less enjoyment during sex.d) They had asked their partners to engage in porn-like activitiese) They constantly needed more extreme pornThese can lead, to a variety of problems. The need for porn in the bedroom and more extreme porn results in an increase of the chance of sexual exploitation. Sex becomes self-serving. People want more until they are having to result to sex which features exploitation of women. Their need becomes so grave that sex which is bordering illegal, from sex portraying rape to illegal BDSM people will search for more. This is what results in the sexual objectification of women. This chains on to a whole lot of other things. Here you have an increased chance of rape. It isn't necessarily the amount of viewed that increases the chance of rape, but the violence of porn. Also, the chances of porn which is illegal and unsafe being viewed is high. When people resort to illegal fetishes, BDSM and gore, there needs to be more of this made to cater for that. More people are harmed and certain types of porn on the deep web grows in quantity. People themselves are also desensitized to violent sex and are then more likely to want to sexually exploit somebody. Then you have issues relating to self-esteem and self-worth. Also relationships are effected and you do not necessarily need to be addicted. Sexually explicit material triggers mirror neurons. Involved in the process of mimicking a behavior and planning it out. Mixed with the fact that people will gain an urge for more, people are more likely to carry this out and if they are viewing very explicit material, then what they carry out could not be safe. Also, there is an increased chance of sexually transmitted diseases for obvious reasons. If there is more of a reason for sex then people are more likely to be promiscuous, which again leads to a host of issues.2. The Social HarmNow, most of what is written above is about the individual, but with enough people this creates social issues. Firstly, if the need for sex is rising due to porn, then it creates coercion for people to get into the porn industry, creating problem I state below. It is an industry where all that is needed is the right body type and the will. Also socially is where the main issues of sexual objectification happens. Porn is popular. 68% of young men watch porn. This many men scales up the issues I said above. Which has bad social ramifications. The idea of an ideal women is made unrealistic to real women. The real life woman weighs 165lbs. The average porn weighs 117lbs. The average porn star is Caucasian, brunette, has at least one tattoo and a piercing and starts their career at the age of 22. There are a variety of averages which are definite enough to create the perfect stereotype. If men are searching for more sexual gratification, women have to try harder to fit the stereotype. This leads to a host of mental diseases such as bulimia and anorexia, and women in general losing a sense of identityMore women in turn do not feel happy about themselves, leading to suicides and depression. Rather than spreading the message that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone can be seen as beautiful, porn is a large part of the driving force behind this sexism. Women also become sex objects, but they have to in order to fulfill the sexual needs. This leads to even more pornography and explicit images, and worse, sexting among teens. This is illegal, and wrong, but very likely to happen. The most common female role that appears in titles is "teen". with 1,966 titles. This creates even more problems relating to the welfare of children. Teens feel the need to do this as well, to fulfill the standards that young boys are getting due to their experiences with porn, or society around them. This leads to sexting as I said before, but also sexual exploitation and pedophilia. Pedophilia can happen due to the need for more, and how young people are portrayed in porn films. "Daughter", had 261 titles and was the 6th most common so this is an issue. And tie that with the aforementioned mirror effect, it only has negative ramifications.3. Harm to Porn Stars28% of porn stars in a survey by the Sexually Transmitted Diseases journal had STI's. But figures from another reach as high as 66%. These are usually gonorrhea and chlamydia which have very little or sometimes no symptoms until it is too late. Condoms are also only used on 17% of heterosexual films. On average, female porn stars in almost 18 years sleep with 148 men. Porn stars do have a higher risk of contracting STI's. Aside from the obvious risk of STI's. Porn stars usually suffer from relationship issues and the same psychological issues I have mentioned above. With porn, to fulfill the need for more explicit porn, there is a chance that people can be coerced into doing things they do not want. This is abuse, but unless banned, is very hard to regulate, which leads me to my next main point.II. The Practicality of Regulating PornographyPorn is a very hard field to regulate. With all the regulation against porn there is, there are still 116,000 searches for child porn everyday. Porn as an industry exists, but so does amateur porn. Banning porn will not stop this issue, but will provide less of an incentive to do this. Although it may not be a drastic change, banning porn will stop the issues presented above and people will be less inclined to film illegal porn. But keeping porn legal means there will be less of a focus on porn, allowing illegal porn of all sorts to go under the radar.To link everything I've said above, the safety of the people of the state matters. That was my premise. Porn has so many unsafe ramifications that the only pro is short term sexual gratification. Legalising porn results in everything above, and the dark side of porn can survive longer. The government cannot put their efforts into finding people who exploit something that is legal. It would be hard to find sites or videos on the dark web and ending it is impractical. But limiting it can all be done with it. By making porn illegal, you can help all of this and also create a positive stigma. That porn is not real and something fine, which in turn metamorphasizes into the objectification and sexism in society. You can have a society that promotes gender equality and keeps sex something moderately valuable. So that even if you don't think it is, those who do can remain. For these reasons, I urge the floor to side with me. Sources:(Please check my profile, there was not enough space.)