I love this question and the opportunity to give an honest if not very abridged answer. I will conclude with a challenge for you. Firstly, from an entertainment perspective, porn represents a promise delivered. So much of visual entertainment depicting sexuality is a cop out. A passionate embrace followed by a cigarette in the morning or even worse, poorly simulated sex. Sometimes, when you sit down for a meal expecting steak, you want steak, not hamburger and not a lettuce sandwhich. Second, yes, I am a sexually curious person with wide boundries of interest. It is at these boundries that I have discovered facinating things about the sexuality of myself and others I have known. Don't get me wrong I do have limits most notably no children and no non-consentual sex or depictions of sex jump immediately to mind. Pornography and sexual acedemia as allowed me to explore boundries I would be very reticent to explore otherwise. Third, pornagraphy puts me in complete control of my own sexuality. A person who is not at the mercy of another for sexual gratification or validation is a person free to make their own way in the world. If I felt as desparate for sexual congress or companionship as a number of posting here or even the desparate pleadings in newspaper want ads I would surely wind up either a cuckhold or a priest or dead to deal with it. MY CHALLENGE: if you are enlightened enough to be curious enough about this with a stranger, ask your partner again about what pornography means to him. You may be surprised.