What’s wrong with working on a porn site? I’d feel better about working on a porn site than at least one of FAANGs.
Won't try to get into an argument about what is more negatively impacting society (FAANG or sex industry) but I think it's easier to empathize with the fact that that's someone's child on screen that more likely than not, had no idea what they were getting into.
Do you have sources on this? Abuse was rampant throughout the adult media industry prior to the wide availability of broadband Internet in the late 90s, but since then there has been an ever increasing tide of completely willing participants who go into it with open eyes as a way to support themselves.
Why bother trying to "trick" or force someone into it when it's umpteen times easier to find a willing participant.
Human-slavery situations notwithstanding, of course. Such productions are not mainstream.
I do not understand the second part of the claim, that "most porn has connection to sex trafficking". This seems a fairly strong statement (there's a huge amount of porn, so "Most" is gonna be a very large number), and have never seen anything remotely accurate supporting it (occasional allusions from those who consider porn immoral, but with no meaningful statistical significance). Not to say there isn't a considerable Venn diagram, and that Venn diagram should be reduced through strong law enforcement, but "most" seems wildly inaccurate.
In California they have agents, everywhere else they have pimps.
Just one example: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/adult-film-performer-pl...
It might be hard to digest but a large majority of people in the industry go in by choice. We should have tougher law enforcement to weed out the bad apples, but that is difficult since this isssue seems to involve two things that are extremely nebulous and difficult to weigh. Sex and morality.
Right, they just use force, fraud, and coercion as they recruit, transport, and provide their victims as prostitutes. Totally different...
> "a large majority of people in the industry go in by choice"
Cool, can you share your stats that a "large proportion" of people go in by choice?
If you are genuinely interested in the well being of prostitutes that is.
> Right, they just use force, fraud, and coercion as they recruit, transport, and provide their victims as prostitutes. Totally different...
It is different.
My point is trafficking is bigger than prostitution.
> It is different
Oh, did you notify the Office on Trafficking in Persons?! That's the definition they give for sex trafficking
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/fact-sheet/resource/fshumantraf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking
> My point is trafficking is bigger than prostitution
Agreed! I thought your point was "a large majority of people in the industry go in by choice" though? I guess not!
if you're going to make a strong claim like "most porn has connection to sex trafficking", you should have strong evidence to back that up
Citation needed
Is "some"? Yes. Is "most"? I seriously doubt it.
Internationally however? Oh hell no. Particularly Eastern Europe has been rife with stories of exploitation for decades, and some Asian countries have an even worse problem with sexual exploitation of minors. For example, Andrew Tate, moron that he is, just made the error of publicly admitting that the police doesn't care about sexual exploitation on camera - now he forced the hands of the police to act.