“This was the lie I had been told: that in porn, for the first time in my life, I would have control over what I would or wouldn’t be asked to do sexually. I would have a say in what would happen with my body.”
We live in a world that needs to see concrete numbers to legitimize an issue. Unfortunately, those numbers are difficult to come by—but here are the facts.
“I don’t feel like I can have an intimate relationship… I don’t feel like my body is my own. I can’t look at myself naked in the mirror if I’m getting in and out of the shower…even now, five and a half years later.”
Too often, sexually exploited girls are seen as victims and exploited boys aren’t. However, any youth under the age of 18 involved in the sex trade is considered a trafficking victim.
But why is crypto used more frequently in human trafficking? Reports find the anonymity of cryptocurrency is what’s useful to human traffickers.
The reality is, sextortion can happen to anyone and it causes a lot of harm to those who are unlucky enough to face it.
We live in a culture that has an expectation that when pop culture figures turn 18, it’s free game to consume explicit images and videos of them. But why?
Studies find that 99% of deepfake porn videos are of celebrities, like Kristen Bell, who have been featured in content they didn’t consented to.
An ongoing investigation has led Norwegian police to a Seattle-based conglomerate that profits from livestreamed sexual abuse of children—and could likely be storing a large number of child exploitation videos.
While the sexualization of youth goes beyond porn, porn today plays a huge role in spreading it. In porn, the fetishization of the underage is blatant.
For most of her life, Jessa suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her own family members starting before she could remember.
Each year, the “Dirty Dozen” list aims to encourage businesses to remove sexual exploitation from their bottom line, or remove it from their company culture overall.
