Is Pornography a Detriment?

There's a British novelist and philosopher named Colin Wilson who often pointed to masturbation as a radical evolutionary breakthrough in nature. He saw this as a premonition of future capacities in which humans could intentionally use focus in imagination to produce flow states, peak states or amplified meaning experiences. So if people are going to explore a fantasy layer, how do they do that wisely? What's the key, do you think, to approaching but not crossing the threshold at which the artificial and imaginal becomes a detriment?