Pornography and the invisible hand

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    Ronald V.
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    Can someone tell me why pornography is such an issue? The marketplace determines the viability of a product. If people will not buy a product, it will disappear from store shelves. If there are millions of people against pornography, isn’t there enough market “unsupport” to unshelve pornographic magazines, etc.?

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    A.C.C.
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    I see two reasons: 1) Many of those people are hypocrites, obviously. One out of three women and two out of three men like to look at pornography/erotic material. But American culture is schizophrenic about sex, both fascinated by it and ashamed of it at the same time. So many people pull a Jimmy Swaggart, complaining about “sin” in public while indulging in it privately. 2) Language. People, especially many feminists, confuse gender discrimination with sexuality.

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    PW30317
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    The ‘unsupport’ you talk about has no effect on the demand/supply issue if you are viewing this simply as a market issue. Even if 1-10% of people buy porn, that’s still a large enough demand that a supply is profitable. The other reason is that many people publically are against porn, but use it in private.

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