Seeing porn is not naturally damaging to males or females. However I would provide some cautions. There are individuals who most likely shouldn't see porn, like those with poor body image or those who have been sexually victimized. Depending on your option in watching, you can establish impractical expectations about sex or what individuals like or how you'll be anticipated to "carry out." And watching with someone requires true consent.
When none of these red flags are up, pornography can certainly have benefits. Counselors sometimes suggest it to help people become comfortable with a specific dream they or their partner might have. Porn can reboot a couple's sex life. It can offer you concepts, or assist you connect with what turns you on.
Porn can reboot a couple's sex life. It can give you ideas, or assist you connect with what turns you on. Pornography can provide you there at best, or disgust you at worst. All of it depends upon what you select to enjoy. With the schedule of porn online, it's possible to sample enough porn rapidly that you do not need to find yourself viewing wall-to-wall hard-core sex if it's plot driven erotica that appeals to you. You're only a victim of bad pornography if you let yourself be.
And a word about sex or pornography dependency. I don't believe in it. Unlike a chemical substance, like opiates, you can't end up being "addicted" to sex or pornography; you can end up being a compulsive viewer. In this case, it's not the porn that's the problem; it's the compulsive character. If it weren't porn being utilized to act out one's compulsive nature, it might be food or some other habits.
As for whether it's harmful or beneficial to the performers, let's take ladies initially. There are some who select to perform because they like sex a lot and they consider it a great method to earn money. Then there are those who are drawn to porn as a method of acting out subconscious psychological issues-- trying to find daddy's love or penalty for being a bad woman. For numerous, it's probably a little of each. Even women with the very best psychological health will face some downsides from this work. Our culture takes in porn at record numbers, but the females who perform are still evaluated harshly.
I'm unsure the male performers get out entirely unharmed either. While they may not be evaluated as roughly as the women, eventually they're viewed as freaks who make their living with their anatomy. John Holmes's fate is here the supreme cautionary tale.
Maybe if we weren't still so consumed with guilt and pity about sex, neither watching nor carrying out in these films would carry the weight it does. However then, possibly we wouldn't be so thinking about them, either. If the fruit were not forbidden, would anyone care to take a bite?