“Interviews with 854 women in prostitution in 9 countries…made it clear that pornography is integral to prostitution… [A]lmost half (49 percent) told us that pornography was made of them while they were in prostitution. Forty-seven percent…were upset by tricks’ attempts to make them do what the tricks had previously seen in pornography.”
Melissa Farley, “Renting an Organ for Ten Minutes: What Tricks Tell Us about Prostitution, Pornography, and Trafficking,” in Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Traffi cking, ed. David E. Guinn and Julie DiCaro, (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2007), 145.
“[Performers] usually ‘consent’ to the acts only in the degraded and demented sense of the word (common also to the law of rape) in which a person who despairs at stopping what is happening, sees no escape,… is often trying to avoid being beaten or killed, is always economically desperate, acquiesces in being sexually abused for payment, even if, in most instances, it is payment to someone else.”
MacKinnon, Catherine A. “Pornography as Trafficking.” Trans. Array Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking. 1st ed. Captive Daughters Media, 2007. 31-35. Print.
“The Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children both recognize that pornography is an element that adds to the serious problem of sex trafficking. Many traffickers are found with filming equipment and cameras to create and sell pornography”
Eberstadt, Mary, and Mary Anne Layden. The Social Cost of Pornography: A Statement of Findings and Recommendations. 1st ed. Princeton: The Witherspoon Institute, 2010. 33-36. Print.
“Often, women involved in the production of so-called mainstream hardcore pornography are pressured by their agents, directors, and fellow performers to engage in sexual activity they do not want to participate in, such as anal sex. This pressure can cross into sexual assault, but in some circumstances it can also be a form of human trafficking… Forced participation as a performer can constitute sex trafficking”
Peters, Robert W., Laura J. Lederer, and Shane Kelly. “The Slave and the Porn Star: Sexual Trafficking and Pornography.” Protection Project Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society. Fall 2012.5 (2012). Print.
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