I might as well take up that one too.
Invade a third world country for fictional reasons, causing the deaths of thousands of your contrymen and tens of thousands of iraqis?
Morally just fine
Depictions of the sex act and/or the sexualization of the human form?
Morally impermissible
Do you see a problem here? No? Why am I not surprised?
Its the same insanity that is reflected in our movie rating system. Its fine to show violent executions of your fellow human in excruciating detail. Its abhorrent to show two people involved in the act of sex.
YetiBoth are about disrespect. Pornography debases in the sense that it fosters or more properly numbs folks to the act of disrespect and sex.
If you had a website or a magazine that showed people punching others in the face, it would have an equally, if not more, degenerate influence upon the masses.
You blame others of pulling a red herring and then compare violence and pornography to elevate the latter. The truth is both are morally repugnant.
There is a fine line where innate appreciation of the naked human form becomes pornography. Where respect turns to disrespect. This fine balance will differ for everyone, but that is the "moral" marker. Once one feels like the participants are being exploited or exploiting others, it ceases being attractive and if anything becomes repulsive. It shifts from pro-human to anti-human.
For what it's worth, glorified and exploited violence is also extremely repulsive. I'm one of the few here who have gone on record as appalled by the time spent in "faux" violence - whether a game, television show or film. The fact bears repeating, many folks spend a third of their life in some state of "artificial" reality where their thinking is done for them as "entertainment" and pacification.
In a refined world there would only be appreciation of the human form sans exploitation. In such a world even "necessary" violence would never be glorified or exploited, but would be understood as the last resort, something one must try to avoid. An evil used to prevent greater evils.
We're FAR from that refined world at this point. Those that live by such "morals" are fairly scarce and by their innate nature are less inclined to be public figures or agitators for change.