Seriously, what's the argument for porn being speech and expression? What is the message it's trying to convey?
Edit: Guys, I'm asking if it's speech/expression and, if so, how. Most of the comments in support of it aren't answering the question, just showing their support for free speech and expression, in general. Only one guy has made a case for it, comparing it to car shows and art. And, even though I have reservations about labeling it as art, I appreciate that he's making a case for it and not just side-stepping the issue.
The most obvious problems are that it's not only easily abused, but those in charge can effectively censor anything they don't like with selective enforcement. What's to stop them from labeling anything that has an attractive woman in it as porn and then using that as an excuse to ban it? On the reverse side, I'd expect they'd gladly allow degenerate trash with trannies or some such.
In rad-Feminist circles, attractive female characters in flattering clothes are considered ''pornified'' because somewhere, a man might enjoy what he's seeing ( toxic male gase ).
It is their belief that showing such female characters makes girls grow to be self-conscious, contributes to eating disorders, and boys grow predatory, entitled, abusive with ''unrealistic expectations''.
Oh and it's a recuring narrative that boys and men who see ''pornified'' female characters ''can't get it up'' for a ''real woman''. As if the <0.5% of males with such obsessive-compulsive disorder ending up in a treatment center somehow tell us some far-reaching conclusion about most men and ''representation''.
These people want to censor content based on that.
Among other things, they also have this weird obesession that if you don't sexually-desire them post-wall and ungroomed body-hair, you're a pedo because of pornified representation of women.
Please disregard the near-totality of studies showing boys do not develop women-hating attitudes when seeing hot chicks, and girls feel more confident when playing a game with a hot female avatar.