Porn?

I have not really seen a post on Feministing that discusses pornography straight on, porn is usually  mentioned tangentially or comes up in the comments.

So I am wondering what the view of porn are here.  How it affects men, women, society.  Good affects, bad affects, all that stuff.

For dudes, I think porn creates skewed and unrealistic desires.  Not really expectations, but desires, if that makes sense.  I think most guys know that porn is unrealistic, so I think some of the affects are mitigated if men where more gullible.  I think many Feministing readers would disagree, and I am curious to see the response.

In regards to women, if I knew I would not be asking Feministing .  I suspect that some resent the skewed desires porn men get after watching porn.  Others may enjoy porn, others may detest the influence the social effects.

For the LGBT community… No idea…

For society…  I think porn makes some sex acts more socially acceptable than they where in the past.  There always seem to be some ‘new’ thing popularized by porn, oral sex, threesomes and so forth.  In regards to objectification, I am uncertain…

I don’t want to go too in-depth in the original post because I want to see the responses develop, if I have not covered something hopefully it it is because I wan to avoid a tl ;dr response and not because I am oblivious.

Thoughts?