i think that the politics of pornography heavily tie into morals. people assume that when one says pornography isn't good that one is talking about the impact on one's own life (which is partially true, in most cases), but the badness also comes from the effect on the performers.

separating them as a political issue, to me, is a little odd because you are saying that it is neither here no there that porn is bad, but that people being forced to participate IS a bad thing. the fact that most porn comes out of lack of choice on the part of a largely female group IS bad, whether your morals allow you to watch it or not. i don't think it can be argued that something that represses people by providing them with what are essentially very fake and rotten opportunities at some kind of living is entirely relative in its morality.

sure, in a utopian version of the argument where everyone is a willing participant, pornography's merits can only be judged on the scale of its effects on society, but we don't live in a world like that. until we do, i don't think that separating the moral from the political is a plausible or logical to view the issue.