As a gay man, I certainly don't feel the least bit dehumanized by gay porn.

[DirkGently]

17. A separate, unrelated point.

If there were an argument being made that we must ban porn to improve gender relations, that would be a response. The fact that progressive societies still have porn doesn't really bear on whether a lot of porn comes from a regressive, degrading place in terms of men and women.

Bad porn isn't the source of degrading attitudes toward women. But it plays into and magnifies it. And the reverse is not true, if that's what you're saying. Accepting any and all depictions of sex as okay doesn't improve anything. That would be like saying laxer gun laws lower crime rates, because some town or state with lax gun laws has low crime rates. There's no cause and effect relationship.

The story bad porn is telling is a lie. And swimming around in an ocean of lies about what women and sexual relations are about isn't a net positive for culture.