and something else, in the discussion of prostitution the international sex trade must be taken into account - this is a global issue, with women from outside the west being trafficked due to being poorer and also seen as exotic, and refugee girls to europe also being at a high risk. not to mention the horrid sex tourism industry, mainly affecting the poorer world with less regulations, the balkans, africa, india, south america, and parts of asia, and also very often leading to a spike of pedophilia.

Can we talk about how big a problem porn is in general for this? That a lot of people are promised xyz when going into filming porn, but when it comes down to it, barely get paid anything and can't get out, getting caught in contracts forcing them to do sexual things they don't want to? Besides, there is no way to tell if porn is done by consenting adults of their own free will, by coercion, or by sex traffickers who kidnapped and groomed/abused them into participating or film rape to advertise their victims or make money twice on a rape. That porn is used to groom victims of sex trafficking who are often minors.

Even popular porn sites don't differentiate between consensual and non consensual porn. The porn stars don't get paid hardly anything. Often even normally willing actors get coerced and pressures into doing things and with people they do not want to and are on their no list. And once they get out it is hard for them to find work. Nothing to say of all the people who feel like it's the only way they can make money to survive.

Watching porn will help the sex trafficking business. It creates demand, both for porn which has dubious or no consent and, for people who get so addicted to porn that they want more and more exciting things, prostitution, which 99/100 times is not consensual and is sex trafficking.

Can we talk about this? About what we can do to decrease sex trafficking?

Consumers are the reason any business is a business, including sex trafficking and porn. Not participating or consuming is the easiest way to help stop exploitation and human sex trafficking.

For those who want my sources:

1) An international study on prostitution. long one but worth reading. note how the percentage of women who wish to leave is between the high 80s and 90s in all but one place. the study also speaks of many other things; 63% prostitures raped, 71% assaulted. 68% meet the criteria for PTSD the same range as combat veterans. (some studies say more on all of the above). in parts of the US prostitutes were raped on averege once a week. in another part of the US 94% were sexually assaulted and 75% were raped by sex buyers. how a woman who was prostitued in strip clubs and massage parlors (bc like in romania those places are rarely not used for prostitution) was verbally sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, and beaten, forced to endure with a smile. 55-90% of prostitutes report childhood sexual abuse, 70% said this influenced them to enter prostitution. "a conservative estimate of the averege age of entery into prostitution in the US is 13-14 years old.""a quantitative distinction of prostitution of children and of adults is arbitrary and obscures the lenghy history of trauma this is commonplace." some other things brought up are the systemic sexual violence against prostituties by pims and johns, prostitution inherently being degrading and having power balance issues, the development of PTSD. please read the rest for yourselves.

2) My 25 Years as a Prostitute https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33113238. The heartbreaking account of an african american exprostitute anti-prostitution activist who entered the market as a minor. She speaks of her childhood sexual assault, the violence pimps and sex buyers inflicted on her, being trafficked. During her work she has been stabbed 13 times and shot 5 times. "People say different things about prostitution. Some people think that it would actually help sex workers more if it were decriminalised. I think it's true to say that every woman has her own story. It may be OK for this girl, who is paying her way through law school, but not for this girl, who was molested as a child, who never knew she had another choice, who was just trying to get money to eat." If you wont listen to me at least do what you preach and "listen to black sex workers!!!" instead of just speaking over them. please read her story.

3) this great post by @sol1taryconf1nement which includes sources and speaks about how germanys legalization of prostitution has incresed the numbers of trafficking in the balkans and eastern europe. thank you for speaking up about this queen i appreciate u so much <3

4) Thailand bans Pornhub for leading to trafficking and demanding women.

5) I would reccomend watching Whores’ Glory (Dir. Michael Glawogger, 2011) and Louis Theroux, Dark States, Trafficking Sex

6) Sex Trafficking Survivor Tells her Story. She speaks about her experience as a trafficked prostitute for 20 years after she met a charming man who turned out to be a pornstar and pimp. She had now dedicated her life to helping trafficking victims and prostitutes. “Every time you click to watch pornography, you are looking at a trafficked person,” she said. Please read her story.

7) Refugee girls and women at high risk of sex trafficking (also more abt this in the doc i shared earlier)

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/20/eu-refugee-crisis-boosts-sex-trafficking.html

8) An article focusing on the failure of germanys legalization, following the story of a Romanian woman. "The men didn't always use condoms. "I was not allowed to say no to anything," says Alina. "65 to 80 percent of the girls and women come from abroad. Most are from Romania and Bulgaria."

9) An article abt Sex Work vs Prostitution, which also speaks abt the point i made earlier that the term was part of a campaign by pimps and that the term includes them as well as making several other good points.