>In contrast, pornography (visual or textual) is quite similar to its real-world counterpart.
A cursory look around online erotic roleplayers, online stories, the manga/doujinshi sold in huge numbers every year in Japan at Comiket, or even the plots of mainstream porn will quickly disabuse you of this notion. I'm also not convinced on the 'no real comparison' for video games. I'm reminded of the fact that the US Army recruits first-person shooter players, and that video games can show a rise in aggression in lab settings, similar to real sports do.
Even if they were all that different, you'd still have to specify in which specific ways, and the extent of those ways, the difference between the two entertainments is relevant to your argument.
A cursory look around online erotic roleplayers, online stories, the manga/doujinshi sold in huge numbers every year in Japan at Comiket, or even the plots of mainstream porn will quickly disabuse you of this notion. I'm also not convinced on the 'no real comparison' for video games. I'm reminded of the fact that the US Army recruits first-person shooter players, and that video games can show a rise in aggression in lab settings, similar to real sports do.
Even if they were all that different, you'd still have to specify in which specific ways, and the extent of those ways, the difference between the two entertainments is relevant to your argument.