What's worse, moraly, but also from a social perspective: Pornography (the commerce of movies, pictures etc) or Prostitution (the commerce of a sexual act)?

Please post your opinion here.
For me the answer is not obvious.
I will write more about it, but first I would like to see a few comments.

Prositution, because it isn't free and available to everyone.

One is bad as the other they are both wrong.

My own personal religious beliefs bring me to that conclusion.

Sorry, Patton, I don't see what you are trying to say. Is it that open discussion of either is a social taboo, therefore both are equally immoral?   I am not sure that is a very sound line of argument.  People couldn't display tattoos, declare themselves homosexual, admit to atheism, etc until recently (even now atheism is 'shameful'  LOL).

In a spirit of open-ness let me say that I have never used the services of a prostitute, but I have had loveless sex, just for the sake/need of it.  I have bought and 'used' pornography in a situation where I did not want to compromise a relationship by 'unfaithfulness' (even though there would not have been any emotion involved).  I don't feel any shame discussing it here - although a desire for privacy would stop me being as open in say the family - where people's sensibilities would need respecting.  The same may be said of my place of work.

Seriously. Anyone who thinks badly towards either needs a long hard look at the mirror.

Ok, here is why I ask the question: Prostitution always existed and was always moreless accepted if not a legal activity while pronography practicaly inexistant. In the Middle Age prostitution was an accepted practice even if moraly condemned. There was officialy 40 prostitutes for 1000 inhabitants in west european cities. This was huge by comparision to today in the same regions. But no one dared producing articraft openly pornographical. Masturbation was sin much worse than having a prostitute.

I wondered why. But it makes sens. Today more than ever.

Pornography is reaching out to much more poeple than prostitution, thus have a much bigger impact on society.
It's cheap and you can find it everywhere. For real sex, you need to move a little bit more and, even more difficult find somebody to your taste.

Pornography also allows the exhibition of fantasms and situations much more difficult to realise in reality with real poeple. Or requires from the sexworker more degradating acts and less protection than a normal prostituted intercourse would. Prostituted intercourse are most of the time the same, based on local habits while pornography is virtualy without boundaries.

Not only pornography is affecting many more poeple, but it affects them with images much more sick and perverse than what a prostitute would do.
I'm not saying prostitution is good. No it's also bad and in its modern form, often sordid, frustrating and degradating for both the worker and the client.
What I'm saying is that pronography have more devastating effect on the minds than prostitution due to its larger audiance, cheap access, ubiquity and especialy perverse nature.

ohh noo! A generation that is not shamefull of sex. What will we ever do!