Not really, we are just coming out of an unusually boring period in human sexual history. Ancient civilisations seemed to manage to be plenty deviant without any porn.
The sunset of Christianity's influence in the west has just as much to do with it.
> The sunset of Christianity's influence in the west has just as much to do with it.
What a common lark, and yet completely false.
Look at China - pornography is illegal. Guess what the firewall is also censoring. They are a completely atheist government by policy.
Look at India - pornography is illegal to distribute, and even though it is legal to privately consume, violent pornography is just as illegal as child pornography for private consumption. They are also not a Christian society.
Look at any Islamic country - be it Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, etc. You'll be lucky to save your head if you get caught publicly using it. (Of course, privately, there's a lot of users - but that's useful for blackmail.)
Look at Japan - pornography is legal, but all genitalia must be censored or blurred.
Look at most of Africa - pornography is illegal and heavily restricted, despite their Christian status being tentative at best.
Ironically, post-Christian countries are the only countries where this stuff is legal and unregulated as it is. Believe me as well, as Islam gets stronger in this country, you might be surprised where the strongest opposition starts coming from.
This argument is somewhat undermined by the inclusion of Japan, a country well known for just how debased its
porn is.
Laws are not a good proxy for culture. Culture is only one of the inputs into a country’s laws. Frequently the people who make the laws are not the same as the people who have to follow them.
As for Islam, Christianity and Islam are closely related, both being Abrahamic religions. I don’t think a distinction is meaningful in this context because both the Bible and the Quran include same story of Sodom and Gomorrah, so their sexual morality comes from exactly the same Abrahamic tradition.
The sunset of Christianity's influence in the west has just as much to do with it.