I don’t think pornography is ever going to go away. Too common, too accessible, and too easy to produce. As long as we have cameras, we will have porn. And before cameras, we had drawings. But porn should never be promoted. It is still harmful to society. And it is a sad state of affairs that porn is often the first exposure a lot of gay youths have to the gay community.

While we can never truly eradicate pornography, we can mitigate the impact it has on society. We can enforce existing laws against human trafficking and give long prison sentences to human traffickers. We can set up charities to help porn actors quit the industry and help them get back on their feet. We can help people addicted to harmful drugs come off of these drugs, because a lot of actors in the industry get into it to pay for expensive drug habits. We can help people who owe a lot of money get out of debt, because a lot of adult actors owe a lot of money to mafia organisations, drug cartels, banks and loan sharks. We can rebuild strong and tightly-knit communities, which reduces the incentive to watch porn or work in porn. Gay charities can go back to focusing on actual gay and bisexual people and helping vulnerable members of our communities like teenagers and the elderly, so they won’t have to turn to porn to escape. These small steps will build up to move a lot of people away from pornography.