A well-thought out article. Yes, I can easily believe a porn career can be a problem for many porn actors. As a career, it is so unusual that the average person probably has a lot of difficulty imagining its effects on the psyche in the long run. I imagine that computer-generated porn imagery and film will be a big industry in the future with AI-powered interactivity built in.

I suppose it's easy to become addicted to porn. It's definitely easier than to become addicted to sex as sex (with attractive partners) is much harder to get. But you may ask yourself how relationships with women are much better these days. Divorce, parental alienation, venereal diseases and unwanted pregnancies are rampant these days and are some of the things you can avoid completely by abstaining from sex and relationships. That is a very hard thing to do for most young men, though. That's why it's remarkable that in Japan between a half and a third of young men demonstrate no willingness to enter into romantic relationships with women. (The grass-eating men phenomenon.)

Love is a real thing. But it's also a reality that a woman's love for a man is informed by whether or not said man has resources and whether or not she has access to them. And a man's erotic love for a woman is controlled by how attractive he finds her (it's a combination of mainly her looks and how receptive she is to him). In reality, the inner workings of (erotic) love are quite mechanical which is why most people are prepared to take great pains to avoid facing that reality. Love is typically finite and towards the end it can get quite ugly. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that in adulthood the main source of loving acceptance that often seems available to us is our romantic partners. This is tragic as that love comes with so many more conditions than the love of our parents showered to us when we were children.

I think the kind of person who has the best chances of happiness in life is one who does not require or want much from other people. Such human minds are rare as the carriers of genes for such independence do not reproduce as effectively as others. But nature never cared about our happiness. If you are one of those blessed souls, I would highly recommend not following your cultural programming to enter into relationships. By knowing yourself and choosing another path you can avoid a great deal of suffering.