As a gay man, I certainly don't feel the least bit dehumanized by gay porn.

[GodlessBiker]

9. I think the argument is about how the industry treats the actors, not the viewers. Child porn, ...

for example, is illegal, rightly so, mostly because what people do to children to make it.

In days gone by, women often were drugged and kept as virtual prisoners to make movie after movie. Regulation of the sex/porn trade helps prevent this so that the actors themselves are protected.

And yet, just the other day, a 30 year-old gay porn star, Eric Rhodes, died of a heart attack while in the midst of his current steroid cycle which he was on presumably to be bigger and buffer to make "better" porn.

I think porn should be legal, but I can see the argument that it's an industry which, more so in the past but maybe to this day, does not treat its workers very well.