The FBI’s “Operation Cross Country” recently recovered 59 child trafficking victims and identified more than 125 suspects. While the 13-year operation has saved hundreds, the sex trafficking industry continues to grow.
Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than most people think.
Sex trafficking is legally defined as a situation in which “a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.” That means that sex trafficking doesn’t always involve kidnapping or physical force.
Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than most people think.
Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than most people think.
Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than most people think.
Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms executives were recently sued for not doing enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram.
When Alia was 14, she had entered into a relationship with a man twice her age who groomed her into a life of sex trafficking.
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.
