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porn / human trafficking
by watching porn, are people supporting human trafficking and enslavement? like all that porn that is like, "watch them dominate their slaves," etc., is that for real? is porn related to human trafficking AT ALL?
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Most pornography featuring trafficked humans is illegal in nature and thus is "underground"
Underground means that its not something you can google, its usually passed around by people who find each other searching for that shit online. Also, much of this kind of porn features kids.
99.9% of the porn encountered by every day people falls into one of two categories. Amateur thats taped in someones home, and professional production porn (the vast majority) that regardless of what it features, is actually professional actors.
Porn really isnt related to human trafficking. The porn industry itself has absolutely nothing to do with it. The only real link is the fact that human traffickers often videotape the things they do for later reliving, thus resulting in "porn" featuring that.
And usually people found in possession of such end up with felony charges.
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There are people who would agree with the implication that pornography encourages, supports and creates demands for human trafficking, but the statistics available in North America just don’t quite support that statement.
I can’t say that NO pornography features people who have been trafficked, anymore then I can say NO pornography features underage participants. Neither statement would be true. That kind of porn certainly does exist.
However, it’s extremely unlikely that that the pornography you are describing features ‘actual’ slaves. Statistically, it’s much more likely that it’s consensual role-playing between amateurs or professionals. It’s just people playing out a fantasy.
What is absolutely true is that pornography featuring people who didn’t, or can’t, consent, is illegal. No question about it, completely and entirely illegal in the United States and pretty much everywhere else.
The sad fact is that most people who are trafficked for the purpose of sex work are predominately pushed into prostitution, not pornography. (Well, actually, the VAST majority of people trafficked into the States are forced to do hard labour or domestic work, but the ones that do get pushed into the sex trade, generally get pushed to prostitution.) There is more money in prostitution then porn and less evidence. Since porn is also legal in the US, law-abiding porn producers have no reason to take a very large risk resorting to illegal means and getting shut down by the federal government. They make money hand over fist without resorting to illegal behavior. The possible gain from using actual ‘slaves’ would generally not be worth the risk.
People who believe that ‘all porn is bad porn’ would probably hold to the idea that ALL pornography supports the IDEA of human trafficking, because it objectifies people and manufactures a ‘demand’ for sex slaves. That is the same argument people use when they say we shouldn’t have movies or games with guns in them, because that encourages people to go out and shoot each other… Depending on your views on freedom of speech and conservative values, you might agree with those statements.
Basically, what I’m saying is there isn't the kind objective evidence that pornography has links to human trafficking that you seem to be asking about. (I’m talking adult pornography here; child pornography is a whole different case and absolutely DOES have links to human trafficking. Same goes for prostitution in many States.) Although it probably does happen, it’s not an epidemic, and it’s very unlikely that any porn you come across featuring domination or ‘sex slaves’ was made with non-consenting participants.
Human trafficking IS a huge problem, and disgustingly and completely wrong, no matter what kind of work the person is being forced into. However, the people who try to tell you there is a definite link between the pornography industry and human trafficking are generally trying to link the two in order to demonize ALL pornography, not just out of concern for trafficked human beings.
There are probably some horrible, very painful stories out there about people forced into pornography, but there are millions more about people being forced to work 14 hours a day with nearly no pay in a foreign country with no friends, no skills and no rights.
If you are concerned about human trafficking, join a lobby group, get informed, donate to charities that help these poor people and become politically active.
If you are concerned about pornography, also get informed, and think long and hard about whether you object to pornography even when it’s a consensual activity, or if you want to see the laws we already have to protect people from being trafficked and enslaved enforced, regardless of the industry they are pushed into.
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