Primitive Stoicism could be considered as a religion with its theology. The main issue is not religion, but being biased in the reasoning. I’m not against consuming pornography, I’m just saying Stoicism teaches us to examine our desires and to have a constant will to progress ; any honest self-observation will notice pornography is an useless desire, because it does not connect with happiness.

I changed my views in writing this article, meaning I didn’t really promote them.

Your last sentence is interesting because you finally agree with the reasoning. Porn should be ethically made (and it’s difficult to be sure of that) ; there should be no addicition (one way to know is to try abstinence from it). And it’s not because those issues are present in any form of pleasure or media, that the porn pleasure doesn’t have some specificities such as the release of a much higher dopamine dose (hyperstimulation) or the fact our brain is not satisfied in the same way with food than with porn (need for more and more extreme/different images to keep the same level of satisfaction).

You just have two possible paths (which are actually only one path) : accepting pleasures as long as they don’t confront virtue ; accepting pleasures only if they’re related to virtue. No moralism here, each one progresses at his own pace ; what matters is the intention to progress.

My full article details more the points that you may have disliked in this summary. The format I chose didn’t allow me to dwell on some points here : https://unregardstoicien.com/.../stoicisme-et-pornographie/