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> I know for sure there is a percentage of "consentual" porn that's actually based on faked or revoked consent because human traffickers can make big money on p

by elp 4y ago

> I know for sure there is a percentage of "consentual" porn that's actually based on faked or revoked consent because human traffickers can make big money on platforms like Pornhub and Onlyfans. Human trafficking is almost entirely urban legend. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/children-sex-trafficking-conspiracy-epidemic/620845/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/childre... https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883928-human-trafficking https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883928-human-trafficking

jeroenhd 4y ago
Human trafficking may not be as big a problem as the media often claims it is, I don't think anyone can say for certain that all porn on a given website is uploaded solely consensually. In the same way barely any, if any at all, international clothing brand can claim to work completely without sweatshops, child labour or even slavery. It's not that these companies don't try, it's just a very difficult problem to work around. As far as I know, though I'm clearly no expert on this topic, actual human trafficking mostly seems to involve the physical part of sex work (not necessarily the performing part). It's also usually not even close to the typical depiction of someone getting kidnapped, shipped off, and forced to have sex. The real world involves modelling/fashion/contract deals that turn out wrong when the victim gets picked up from the airport, financial coercion of family, forms of wage slavery and other "soft" coercion methods. There have been plenty of stories in the news here about men and women signing contracts they couldn't read that claimed they agreed to all sorts of things (though legally that's complete nonsense, of course, but the victims don't know that!) The approach is not very different from the approaches abusers use to make Eastern European people work in richer European countries for far less than minimal wage with barely any worker's rights. It's a tragedy that needs more nuance and definitely more government action even at its relatively modest real world scale, at least here in Europe. Every abuse case is one too many.

by elp 4y ago

jeroenhd 4y ago

Human trafficking may not be as big a problem as the media often claims it is, I don't think anyone can say for certain that all porn on a given website is uploaded solely consensually. In the same way barely any, if any at all, international clothing brand can claim to work completely without sweatshops, child labour or even slavery. It's not that these companies don't try, it's just a very difficult problem to work around. As far as I know, though I'm clearly no expert on this topic, actual human trafficking mostly seems to involve the physical part of sex work (not necessarily the performing part). It's also usually not even close to the typical depiction of someone getting kidnapped, shipped off, and forced to have sex. The real world involves modelling/fashion/contract deals that turn out wrong when the victim gets picked up from the airport, financial coercion of family, forms of wage slavery and other "soft" coercion methods. There have been plenty of stories in the news here about men and women signing contracts they couldn't read that claimed they agreed to all sorts of things (though legally that's complete nonsense, of course, but the victims don't know that!) The approach is not very different from the approaches abusers use to make Eastern European people work in richer European countries for far less than minimal wage with barely any worker's rights. It's a tragedy that needs more nuance and definitely more government action even at its relatively modest real world scale, at least here in Europe. Every abuse case is one too many.