I have two points on this -

Firstly Don, my initial thoughts and probably my final position is that I have no problems with it. Why? Because it is a business like most others, it is no more enslaving or 'wrong' than office work, in my opinion. People are free to take part in it, watch it or ignore it, it is not rammed down peoples necks like other business are - like sport for instance.

However secondly when I reflect a bit longer I do agree that it does have negative aspects and although I think it perfectly fine and most definitely not to be made illegal - what would that solve anyway? You would still have people making porn and selling it illegally - it should be regulated effectively so that the *ahem * niche markets of women getting abused in porn does not get into the hands of adolescents. Very hard to do but that type of porn really doesn't set a good precedent, at least other forms of porn doesn't show things we are not going to participate in - yeh alright not necessarily as explicitly as some porn films - in our lifetimes anyway. Also like prostitution it should be open and regulated properly so that the women in the business are not taken advantage of and know exactly what they are doing, are not getting ripped off and know they are doing it only because they want to and not because they feel they have to.

Not evil and it does serve its purposes.