The pros of learning them is that you'll increase your knowledge and be better equipped to be making trading decisions the downside is that you may lose money during the learning process.
We don't need to lose money went learning option trade, there has some demo trade on every broker. You can easily learn with demo account, if you don't really trust on the demo you should compare it with the real chart did the chart was getting manipulation or not. As long i know the demo account its the same chart with a real account chart.