I don't see porn as dangerous if the viewer has a clear understanding of what it is and what purpose it serves (thinking kids seeing it). However, some points:
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Some claim many men are "addicted" to porn (again fostered by the availability on the internet), do you believe this?
My senior year in HS I worked at a small independent video store. We had a back room with adult movie rentals. On Tuesdays we would get a new shipment of tapes and without fail every Tuesday the same guys would be in. They would know exactly which ones were new and which ones they hadn't seen before. They were completely addicted, they would be in multiple times a week, often never going without a movie, returning one and renting another. Most memorable was a guy who would routinely rent a movie when we first opened and return it on his lunch break that same day.
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As for the female pornographic actors themselves - do you ever feel "bad" for them? Many (not all) were sexually abused in their youth - others grew up in tumultuous households and lives of stripping/poverty -- and somehow they ended up getting banged by 3 dudes for some quick cash.
Another thing about working at the store was the downtime. We weren't all that busy of a place and we would get various industry magazines. I don't know why a magazine for the adult movie industry would publish the interviews with their stars, but I would read a lot of stories about some pretty fucked up stuff happening to the actresses when they were young. I would say this isn't as true as it used to be though, since there is way, way, way more porn made now than there was a decade ago. However, after seeing the guys get addicted to the stuff, the disgusting smell of that un-ventilated back room, and reading about the stars getting gang-raped at the age of 12, kinda put me off porn for a while.