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In reply to the discussion: Iceland campaigns to restrict internet porn [View all]BainsBane
(53,001 posts)Is that enslaved children and young women are forced into porn. It is part of the labor enslaved children and women are forced into. That doesn't mean all porn is created using forced labor, but some is. The criminal prosecutions discussed in that journal article show as much. Girls who have escaped from their captors have also recounted being forced to do porn.
Slaves labor. People are trafficked to perform a function. Sex work is high on that list, but other industries also use slave labor. The State Department and the UN has information on other industries involved. In the US, many slaves are kept as domestics. The Northwest and the Midwest actually have the highest numbers of enslaved workers.
I have an academic background in the study of slavery and have always thought of it as having ended in the Americas in 1888. A couple of years ago I attended a talk by a leading history of slavery in the US who said there are more people enslaved now in the world than at any point in human history. Numbers range from 20-27 million.