Ellynne wrote:

Second, there are ranges of personal experience that are difficult to bring into any online discussion but that, nevertheless, have had a major impact in my attitudes (there are porn junkies in the neighborhood who will spend hours at the local library looking at the stuff on the internet, and a friend was threatened by one). Statistically and scientifically questionable, but personal experiences often are.

On the level of personal experiences, I'm quite prepared to stand up and be counted as a long-term (>decade) porn user -- at least if you count written-word-only stuff, particularly of the amateur variety.

I've noticed little change in my attitudes over the decade I've used porn compared with the previous 4 or 5 years when I was both adult and non-porn-using. If anything, my real-life activities have been more 'conventional', though I'd put that down to rapidly encroaching middle age coupled with rapidly expanding waistline...

I'm not really into child abuse, serial killing, crimes against women.... &c &c

Tavia