Bob Ross' Joy of Painting wrote:I don't post porn, that would be illegal and immoral.
Technically it's neither. The thing that bothered me about that animated GIF was that it was gay porn. And I'm a rare bird: a normal man who doesn't watch porn very much, plus that I do not like gay material at all.
I'm not going to claim I never watch porn, I just don't watch it much because it just seems boring. I've watched maybe an hour or two (in a few minute pieces every so often) in the last 20 years. The stuff has to be amazing to make me find it worth watching. Like one time, I saw a guy fucking some girl doggie style, then he pulls out, picks her up, flips her upside down so she's standing on her hands, and proceeds to fuck her that way! I had to pull my jaw off the floor.
The distribution of porn is not illegal unless it is done to minors or is legally obscene. The rules for what is obscene were set down precisely by the U.S. Supreme Court in
Miller v. California and as a result we have the
Miller Test: It must be sexually explicit, it must be outside of the normal expressions of sexuality in the community it appears in, and it must have no socially redeeming value ("dirt for dirt's sake"), in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment and a state may (but does not have to) ban it.
And in at least one case the bans were eliminated. One state decided to drop all restrictions on pornography involving adults and completely eliminated their obscenity statutes, the only thing that is prohibited there is distribution to minors and child pornography. Can't remember and don't want to bother looking it up but it was either Iowa or Indiana I think.
So many normal adults watch porn that it cannot be immoral in my opinion unless it represents something where a crime has occurred, such as the filming of a rape or of someone who did not know they were being filmed or did not consent to the distribution. (Filming of persons under 18 having sex or being naked is always illegal, even if the persons involved consent to be filmed, as some kids who got arrested and tried for distribution of child pornography have unfortunately discovered when they sent themselves video of their own lovemaking.)