Ezhil,
This is not about the justifications of the past - this is about freedom. Banning porn would be an unwarranted intrusion, and such a ban would not be respected by the people.

>Without a legal ban the porn will certainly flourish uncontrolled.
They said that about alcohol and in the short term that too flourished without a ban. But more recently there's been a huge decline in alcohol consumption. Why do you imagine the same won't happen with porn in the future?

What freedom you are talking about?People should not have the freedom to show their sexual act in the open.Banning porn will not affect people in any respect as it is not needed for both physical and mental health. Rather it is known to corrupt people's mind. Knowing pretty well that porn is not an essential item why should we allow it to go unchecked? Many things may see their natural death ultimately. This does not mean that such obnoxious practice also should be allowed to see its end naturally and no control or ban is needed. The freedom you are talking about to see porn is made possible because of gadgets such as camera, internet, TV etc.Without them you will not have this great freedom to watch porn. Let us change for the better.

Religion corrupts people's minds. Possibly the worst is Christianity with its tripartite god, virgin birth, man-god, eternal life and other nonsense. With its history of horrors it has done far more harm than porn. However, I would not ban it. People are free to accept the nonsense. If one can accept freedom of religion I can't see banning porn which is far less harmful.

I fully agree with your opinion that religion also corrupts the mind. But religion can never be compared with porn.Religion is faith based whereas porn is basal pleasure and technology based.Justifying porn ignoring its harms to especially children because there are many other things including the religions that harm society does not stand to reason. Is it rational to add one more harm to the already existing ones.I think it will not be prudent to do that. Let us try to reduce harmful influences as much as we can.But whatever is its legitimacy, the fact is that porno is misuse of of technology for making easy money at the cost of self respect and morality.

To Ezhil.

If there was a measure to reduce, restrict, or ban porn, I'd support it. I don't know if there's anything we can do to successfully get rid of it all, but I know the need to do so. Twice in my life I've been greatly pulled towards porn, and let it's posion into me. Once as a teen because of the easy access to it through the Internet, and another times an adult after a hard breakup. Both times porn became the thing that is hard to turn away from, like liquor to an alocholic.

If porn was restricted and had reduced access, I'm sure the effect of that would help society greatly. Good luck in your endeavors against porn. It's needed, but I don't know if we can successfully be rid of it. The world is broken, and too often enjoys the evils, harms, and darkness in it, instead of trying to help make it a better place.

Dear Ezhil.

The problem with religion is that it is faith based. A person using his or her reason would not accept the mumbojumbo of religion. Religion asks one to put one's reason aside and accept nonsense on faith. Religion asks one not to question. The Renaissance and the scientific revolution were spurred by questioning religion. The Christian religion has inspired the murder of people with great scientific minds such as Hypatia murdered by a Christian mob, Servetus burned at the stake and Giordano Bruno burned at the stake.

Yet in a free society we must have freedom of religion. To ban porn and to accept Christianity is straining at eating a gnat while swallowing an elephant. It is ignoring a great evil while getting excited over a minor one.

The desire for porn and the desire for religion are inherent in humanity judging from the great antiquity found in the evidence for both. It is futile to try to ban either. To try to ban what is inherent in humanity is a recipe for tyranny.