“He says that the porn industry causes many foreigners to have contempt for America, as a nation of moral degenerates”
Your friend is clueless. Those holier than though types are the biggest consumers of porn. Like Utah in USA http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705288350/Utah-No-1-in-online-porn-subscriptions-report-says.html (they win the Prozac race too)
Or Pakistan http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/07/14/pakistans-dirty-little-porn-secret/
I tend to think that most places where Porn doesn’t have the taste of “forbidden fruit”, the vast majority of people, like me, just find porn, frankly, boring.