Continually seeking after novelty, producers and directors of even the best sexvids offer kinky sexual behavior that often borders on cruelty or sadism. These sexvids degrade not only the participants, but human sexuality in general. Against such troubling questions is the fact that only a tiny portion of men who use pornography ever commit violent crime. Many people, understandably repelled by the proliferation pornography, feel that it's acceptable to offer just about any argument against it, so long as it is effective. But when truth is compromised, no one is served, and ultimately the cause suffers.
Porn does raise important questions.
We are all highly sensitive to air pollution, water pollution, and the pollution of our bodies. Porn does violence, not to bodies but to souls, to the divine image within the model, the user and society. In the 1960s and 1970s, conservative thinker Ernest van den Haag testified for the prosecution of pornographers. Thus, the harm appeared to outweigh the masturbatory pleasure that vicarious sex may yield, and I favored punishing purveyors. I have changed my mind.