PORNOGRAPHY FUELS SEX TRAFFICKING.
The trafficking of humans for sexual exploitation did not develop overnight. There are societal factors that have fueled the demand for more violent, dangerous, and frequent sex. The most predominant of these factors is pornography.
The growing popularity of porn has created stereotypes about the sexualized states of men and women. Porn teaches that men can be physically and emotionally abusive to women who not only will not resist them, but will seemingly enjoy it. Distorted values about sexuality and healthy relationships are attaching themselves to an entire generation.
THE FACTS
- In a content analysis of 50 best-selling adult videos, 94% of aggressive acts were committed against women, 88% scenes contained physical violence, and 49% contained verbal aggression.
- Watching even non-violent porn is linked to being more likely to use verbal coercion, drugs, and alcohol to push women into sex.
- In one study of women in prostitution, 80% of women interviewed had been with customers who showed them images of porn to illustrate what they wanted them to do.
- The US Department of Justice is concerned about the growing demand for child pornography.
- In 2014, the most popular search term on Pornhub, the most visited porn website in the world, was "teen."
- A surmounting amount of research indicates that porn rewires our brains like a drug, which accounts for how porn is becoming increasingly violent.
- Sex trafficking victims are often filmed and photographed, multiplying their pimp's profits.
- Given that the average boy first sees porn at 11 years old, pornography has become the sexual education of the new generation.