From NY Times Opinion: The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness

As a society, we are allowing our desires to continue to be molded in experimental ways, for profit, by an industry that does not have our best interests at heart. We want to prove that we’re chill and modern, skip the inevitable haggling over boundaries and regulation and avoid potentially placing limits on our behavior. But we aren’t paying attention to how we’re making things worse for ourselves. Ms. Phillips’s case is one example of how normalization of pornographic extremes has made even lurid acts de rigueur; it’s not hard to imagine a future that asks (and offers) more than we can imagine today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/1…®i_id=65067095&segment_id=198311&user_id=f072b8cd33fd7a4bada76d1ea460dee7