Neither seems likely to seriously damage the social fabric. To be sure, pornography fans may think of others as interchangeable and available for impersonal sex, or savor its depiction. But they remain rather few. Non-fans occasionally join out of curiosity but seldom stay. For most people porn is no more damaging or habit forming than coffee.
Sexual desire is complex and frequently nasty, even without the stimulus of pornography.
The perversion of pornography, which provides restitution for men, comes in different genres, each created for a specific perverse need by exact attention to detail and each defining an area of excitement that will have no effect on a different man. The feminists are right that male heterosexual porn insults women. But it insults men too, showing their need to be cruel and marking their failure to relate better to live females. Men abuse women because they are uncertain, fearful, angry and envious. Erotic daydreams in pornography represent fantasies of revenge in which the consumer imagines he is degrading women.