“Upon realizing what I had done, and have been doing all these years, I was sickened. Because that’s the truth: porn flattens people into images and ignores their humanity.”
On her first day Kozai discovered the job required her to have sex on camera. “I couldn’t take off my clothes. All I could do was cry,” she said.
Supporting the porn industry is supporting the exploitation of teens who are often tricked, forced, or coerced into shooting “adult” content.
As important as it is for everyone to know what we are not, I realize it’s even more important to emphasize who we are and what we are fighting for.
June 8th was a normal day for mailman Ivan Crisostomo, who was on his regular postal route in South Sacramento, until he came across a distressing scene…
The trouble with porn production is that it often blurs the lines between consent and coercion. How can you know that what you’re watching is consensual?
Bryan Deneumostier posted ads on Craigslist, posing as a bored woman looking for sex. The men who responded had no idea the sexual encounters were filmed.
Sex-for-rent schemes aren’t new, but they’re on the rise now that millions of workers lost income over the last two months due to the novel coronavirus.
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.
“I worked at the front desk of a brothel, and the sex buyers wanted exactly what was in porn. They would complain to me if they did not get it.”
Much like “traditional” online porn as we think of it today, there are willing and unwilling participants in the camming side of the sex industry.
“What teen boys learn about sex from porn impacts teen girls, too. My female students talk to me about relationships and I hear a lot of anxiety.”
