For you and others: direct physical contact with the customer (potentially leading to disease and bad neighborhoods and untaxed activity) as opposed to no contact with the customer (potentially leading to taxes paid on purchase, no disease, delivery by mail/ computer so no bad neighborhood). YMMV.
Just from selling your body for sex--something necessary for making hardcore porn. Again, the example of John Holmes.
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So the argument is that since only the people who are having sex for money can be harmed, it's different?
Uh, the question in the OP is not that clear and I interpret it to be asking why is porn legal and prostitution not in countries where that is the case. Assuming that IS the question, I ASSUME the distinction is as I gave it. I do not think any of us have data to verify that but I do suspect it is the case as the primary concern (outside of religious silliness which normally would mean neither is legal) of the law/legistators is likely to be with average citizens/neighborhoods (voters) rather than with the persons involved as actors/prostitutes. Thus, prostitution illegal/persecuted, porn left alone with minor exceptions.
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Yes. Same thing that killed Freddy Mercury.
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But Freddy Mercury didn't have sex for money, did he?
Except that in most places the latter is legal and the former is not. That's the subject of this thread. What's the logic behind laws that make this distinction?
I think you missed the point of the analogy to snuff films. To make a snuff film, you have to commit the crime of murder. To make a porn film, you have to pay people to have sex. (Which is typically how prostitution is defined.)
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I am forced to take a wild guess that you are in your 20's or so (very early 30's at most OR you have never actually been concerned with this topic. I say this because you start with video, which ignores the films produced for home/small group consumptions since ,at least, the early 1900's and pictorial/illustration porn is far older than that - though it was generally socially approved in most, possibly all, cultures during and prior to the Greeks and Romans though in them it was not considered something to be hidden, just another part of life. As silly xtians proliferated, so did the tendency to, from time to time, try to cleanse man's unclean nature - thus laws came and went covering porn in Western Civ's. As did laws controlling/proscribing Prostitution. Both types of laws have tended to weaken over the last thirty years or so (video to Disc transition time) but both types of laws still exist and are, on occasion, enforced - mostly to show who is still in charge in a way that will keep the religious happy and voting republicker or it's equivalent (fascist, national socialist, etc.) [no, I am not Godwining as it is unavoidable that assaults on such material are generally, in Western Civ, done by those on the right (aka wrong) side of things]. {please feel free to provide large scale data proving me wrong - I do not plan to spend time quoting, but I have a very fine library on the subjects of prostitution and pornography as a sociological and psychological object of study, as a political object of study and general and specific historical material on them). I started building this collection in my early teens (well, technically when I was 8 or 9 but....). Anyway, way prior to the very shortlived video period.
