Is pornography the most honest media product (just to be safe, NSFW)

Porn gets a bad rap, as far as I’m concerned. But I often wonder how much merit there is to critiques of porn as a destructive media product in our society.

You cannot, at least without profound effort, create a market for something you produce without any interest in it to begin with. As soon as we had drawing, we had sexual depictions in drawing. As soon as we had print, we had sexual stories. As soon as we had photography, we had the nudie mag. As soon as we had film, we had nudie films. Sex is one of the most basic of our motivations. Therefore, when we declare something as obscene, or state that something is porn, are we attempting to delegitimize it because it is an assault on morality, or because it is showing us something we actually feel but are taught is wrong?