“I would show up [to film] and midway through the scene, I would realize that what I was booked for, what I had been told I would be doing, was not what the scene was going to call for.”
Sex trafficking shares a variety of connections to pornography. Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still happen—and it happens more often than most people think.
The unfortunate reality is that the porn industry has an extensive history of profiting from trafficking, nonconsensual content, and abuse. In this video, hear ex-performers Joshua and Alia discuss the realities of sex trafficking in the porn industry.
These true survivor stories show only a glimpse of what many in the commercial sex industry experience.
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