It stretches credulity to think that sexual violence, which infects the rest of our culture, is lacking from pornography. Anyway, McElroy concedes that amateur product is driving out the professional stuff. I know a little more about this from having read the entire transcript of the Amateur Action case, where a close-up of a vagina nailed to a table was the operative image. The GIF's and videos in that case included numerous graphic enactions of rape, involving torture by electric shock, candle, whips, clamps, and weights. In fact, everyone is right.
Some pornography is liberating for women to view.
Some is degrading and may encourage men to acts of violence, perhaps not directly but by aiding the subtle creation of a world view which says that sexual violence is not violence.