Do people actually watch porn?

Porn is objectifying people especially women, some women who worked in this industry (and some men probably too) came out and said how traumatizing it was for them. Money is not everything. Money can't cover trauma of sexual exploitation even if the exploitation is by an audience and an industry. I hate porn. I hate porn culture. I hate that 12 year old girls are being harassed and sometimes straight out raped by classmates who watched porn. I hate that people think about other people in a sexual way and forget that being human is more important. I hate that sexual pleasure is regarded as a big deal that you must fulfill and should do all kinds of extreme stuff for or your missing out. I hate how having compassion for eachother is regarded so little, as something only stupid religious people really take seriously because they don't know how to enjoy life. What's to enjoy? I was raised not religious at all. I still didn't like porn. I still got hurt when boys and men who watched porn sexually harassed and exploited me growing up just because I was pretty without ever caring that I was all alone in the world with older parents a dad with ptsd issues who is basically gone and a mom who gets taken advantage of for being a kind person all the time and I don't wanna burden. I still hated it when my first boyfriend did to me offensive and gross things he saw on porn and it traumatized me. And I don't mean cried a little traumatized, I mean became a drug addicted stripper and went to live on the streets while attempting suicides traumatized. From there after I been also physically, financially, sexually and spiritually abused by men, I lost my mom to cancer while I had psychosis. I have zillion tons of pain in my chest. If humanity thinks some pleasure is worth this and other cases like me, I give up.

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