On the whole I suppose I don't have an issue with the existence of porn or prostitution, however, I do have some concern regarding the unrealistic expectations it tends to create in men, especially men who need all the help they can get when it comes to women, and further damages their ability to enter into anything resembling a meaningful relationship.
What I'm referring to is porn's tendency to portray women as vacuous automatons with no greater desire in life than to shove her partner's member into her various orifices. I think in the lonely young man (think your typical Mountain Dew-chugging, World of Warcraft-playing, greasy-haired mancub), who, almost by definition, is exposed to a great deal of porn and almost no real women, receives an unreal impression of how to attract and appreciate women.
Sadly, the deadly combination of those portrayals, and the not terribly improved ones in regular media, leads many men to value women solely for their sexual appeal, and not for their abilities, which ends up hurting women in the workplace.
Okay, it's a stretch, but I think it's there. There really are men who only value women in sexual terms, and as a result will always have a more favorable impression of men at work than women, no matter how hard those women work.
But regardless, I'm not against the existence of porn or prostitution. I do wish there was a way women could appear both sexy and self-sufficient, but I know many men are hard-wired to need to feel like providers, so women as equals tend to emasculate them and therefore wouldn't turn them on sexually. Well, except the men who get off on that sort of thing
