Sex trafficking shares a variety of symbiotic connections to pornography. Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than most people think.
Sex traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to lure their victims into exploitation. Porn is the marketing department of the sex trafficking industry.
Virtually every major porn site has reportedly hosted and profited from trafficking, child sexual abuse material, image-based abuse, and/or degradation.
Here are a few examples of real cases of sex trafficking in porn, and what survivors endured while they were exploited for profit.
Marisol has worked with law enforcement and state and federal legislators for over a decade to help catch human traffickers by going undercover.
FBI agents and investigators rescued 84 children, 141 adults, and identified or arrested 85 suspects of human trafficking in a nationwide operation.
Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still happen—and it happens more often than most people think.
We’re not claiming all porn is nonconsensual. Some is and some isn’t, and when you watch it there’s no way to know which is which.
Susan Norris is the Founder and Executive Director of Rescuing Hope, Inc. and has been involved in the fight against sex trafficking in America since 2010.
This sentencing follows the multiplatinum R&B artist’s conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
On December 29th, Maxwell was convicted of conspiracy to entice a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts and sex trafficking of minors, among other charges.
