[angersock]

Counter-argument: porn services are actually used by thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in a way that helps enrich their lives and solve a concrete immediate problem.

You'll be hard pressed to find some chatroom package or vision API or machine learning kit that is as deeply satisfying to a user as a solid wank.

A more concrete problem is that the porn industry is very hard to get into and has some real difficult technical challenges.

[Lordarminius]

There is no doubt that some porn has value. However this could be easily met by just a few sites not thousands.

More to the point however is the seamy side(imagine that!) of the industry that rarely gets mentioned. The drugs, disease, depressions and suicides, social exclusion and the seedy characters at all levels with whom you must interact. These are best avoided imo.

[angersock]

> The drugs, disease, depressions and suicides, social exclusion and the seedy characters at all levels with whom you must interact.

Sounds not unlike the startup ecosystem. :|

At least in porn you know somebody's getting fucked.