Sex trafficking shares a variety of symbiotic connections to porn. Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than most people think.
For anyone who is invested in the fight against child trafficking, here are a few commonly-used acronyms that are essential to know.
As a popular mainstream porn performer, Alia experienced trafficking, abuse, and exploitation, eventually leaving the industry on her own terms.
Ruben Andre Garcia, the performer in notorious porn company “GirlsDoPorn” videos, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to “conspiracy to commit sex trafficking” and “sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.”
At least 50 women are suing MindGeek for allegedly knowingly profiting from images and videos of their sex trafficking nightmares and failing to properly moderate sites owned by MindGeek for the abusive videos.
Did you know, of the more than 23,500 endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2019, one in six were likely victims of child sex trafficking?
This case has been building against Maxwell for years, with dozens of trafficking and sexual abuse survivors speaking out about her participation in Jeffrey Epstein’s reported child sex trafficking network.
So what actually is sex trafficking, and how does it work?
This man allegedly made over $21 million from CityXGuide, and a number of affiliated sites like it. And, get this—he registered many of those sites just a day after Backpage was shut down.
What began on a Reddit thread quickly spread across social media and the world as more and more followers concluded that expensive cabinets must mean that there are trafficked children hidden inside.
He was found to have made $21 million in less than two years, profits from the adult websites he managed, including one he bought with the domain name “New Backpage.”
The 33-year-old persuaded teens to engage in sex acts with him on camera by falsely claiming the encounters were being shot for a porn video he was creating.
