[sirkinm]

In the end, it's simply someone with a video camera filming sexual situations, and the sex that takes place can have all the same nuances of unfilmed sex: Sometimes exploitation is involved, sometimes it's empowering, sometimes it's the healthy playing out of violent fantasies, etc. People who take a all-or-nothing view seem to be missing a lot of the nuance -- I remember seeing a presentation of porn from a feminist perspective (obviously, there are many different feminist perspectives), and it made no distinction between Playboy and snuff films in condemning porn.

As for Steve's opinion, I don't see why he has a responsibility to tell us his view. Though as I posted earlier, we can probably discern his view by applying the principles he lays out in his book and elsewhere.