Posted on 11/05/2013 3:26:03 AM PST by Kaslin
In the first two parts of this series, I discussed how 10 times more U.S. minors than foreigners are trafficked in the U.S. But are many of them trafficked into the legal porn industry?
A few years back, Dr. Mary Anne Layden, a sex abuse expert and psychotherapist at the University of Pennsylvania who has testified before the U.S. Senate on the dangers of online porn, addressed a forum on sex trafficking at Parliament House in Sydney.
In an article titled "Online porn addiction turns our kids into victims and predators," The Sydney Morning Herald reported Layden as saying to the forum that in her 20 years of experience treating sexual violence victims and perpetrators in the U.S., she "didn't have one case of sexual violence that didn't involve pornography."
Layden also explained that the "dramatic increase" in child sexual predators is a direct result of and proportionate to the increase of Internet pornography. The Internet is "piping (pornography) 24/7 into homes, in harder and more pathological forms in a venue children know better to use than adults."
Layden elaborated that increased online pornography helps to "normalize pathological behavior," raising the belief that "it is common, hurts no one, and is socially acceptable, the female body is for male entertainment, sex is not about intimacy and sex is the basis of self-esteem." And just as with other addictions, Layden claimed, the more one consumes pornography the more one's appetite for it grows.
The Herald summarized Layden's sentiments regarding the connection between porn and sex trafficking this way: "Increased use of pornography leads to increased demand for prostitution. When demand outstripped supply of local prostitutes, women and children were brought in from overseas, often against their will."
The irony for many among the socially conscious younger generations is that they are often passionate about fighting against sex trafficking but often overlook its connection to pornography's supply and demand -- something the majority of them feed in their digital world. According to a 2008 Brigham Young University study noted in World magazine, 87 percent of men in college and 31 percent of women in college watch porn.
World also cited Layden, who is also co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program and contends that porn's easy accessibility sets the foundation for its entitlement. She said: "I hear men say, 'Sex is a need. I have a right to it.'"
Despite its legal legs, the porn industry, in fact, aids and abets sex trafficking. Porn fuels trafficking and vice versa. As noted by She's Somebody's Daughter (http://www.somebodysdaughter.org):
--"Pornography drives the demand for sex trafficking."
--"Trafficking victims are exploited in the production of pornography."
--"Pornography production is a form of trafficking."
--"Pornography is used as a training tool with sex trafficked victims."
Brittni Ruiz is just one of hundreds of thousands of examples of those who were lured and ultimately caught in the webs of the porn industry and mass media trafficking. But she also became one of porn's top stars.
WorldNetDaily's Chelsea Schilling, who wrote a must-read multi-article expose on how child porn is pervading even Facebook, reported about how Ruiz was raped at 14 years old and then enticed into a life of porn that she "hated" but was ensnared in for years as her alter ego, Jenna Presley.
In her recent interview on ABC's "The View," Ruiz shared how it all began when she was lured by the promise of fame in college by producers who asked her whether she wanted to star in a few "romance movies."
Roughly 300 porn films later, Ruiz's life spiraled down "a long seven-year journey of porn, prostitution, stripping, drugs, alcohol and several failed suicide attempts," she said.
The great news is that the team of women at XXXchurch.com, an online community for those seeking help out of the porn industry and pornography, repeatedly reached out to Ruiz at porn conventions, where they distributed hundreds of Bibles and T-shirts that declared, "Jesus loves porn stars."
The message of God's love, value and forgiveness finally reached her heart. Ruiz filmed her last sex scene in November 2012. Looking back, she recalled in an interview with AdultFYI: "I never found love in my life and was looking for it in all the wrong places. ... I have finally encountered the unconditional love of God, and I will never go back."
For any girls who are thinking about entering the porn industry, Ruiz gave this word of caution and encouragement to them in her interview with Whole Magazine: "Taking your clothes off to be with multiple men will leave you hopeless, broken and empty. I remember hating myself. I didn't have one ounce of love for myself. No one in that industry is going to reach his/her hand down and help pick you up. They're going to watch you go down and kick you. Research other avenues. I found what I yearned for (fulfillment, acceptance, joy, peace and love) in Jesus. I know these same women can find the same thing I did. Reach out and take a step of faith and take that hand that is reaching out for you ... and that hand is Jesus."
If you want to know more about what Ruiz is doing now, go to http://www.brittniruiz.com.
I recommend the documentary "Somebody's Daughter," which has raised awareness of the pervasiveness and destructiveness of pornography. Powerful tools to aid individuals and couples who want help getting over issues related to pornography are also found at https://www.thepinkcross.org. Other great training resources can be found at http://www.stripchurch.com, which serves, teaches and equips women who share the desire to reach out to those in the sex industry.
The Polaris Project provides the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, which is a toll-free hotline available for calls and texts from anywhere in the country 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. Call it at 888-373-7888, or text "help" or "info" to BE-FREE (233733)
Part 1:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/human-sex-trafficking-of-u-s-minors/
Part 2:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/how-do-u-s-minors-become-sex-slaves/
In a perfect world.. the porn monsters would be pilloried and displayed... clothed..
Jesus Loves Porn Stars - it’s amazing how that phrase shocks the good folks but is exactly what the in-need folks need to hear and how they need to hear it. Like speaking in tongues!
We need to figure out how to speak with women going in for an abortion the ‘same’ way - in a tongue they will understand in their state of self-drowning or self-absorption. Holy Spirit, send us the way.
I hope the XXX church is putting an emphasis on the positive gospel empowerment of “Honor God in your body” which is what these folks mired in sexual sins need.
And yes that approach will work with abortion too.
It bugs me. Folks who tag themselves as “pro-life” then preach a gospel that is all full of no without a yes in it.
[It bugs me. Folks who tag themselves as “pro-life” then preach a gospel that is all full of no without a yes in it.]
I don’t mean the XXX church people. I mean modern “conventional” Christians. Having been spared for so long from spiritual warfare, they forget the ultimate enemy is Satan, not sinners.
The increase in sexual predator numbers is more likely due to exposing themselves via the Internet to law enforcement than in actual increases.
That said, I too lament the media vulgarization of social values and its effect on individuals.
Wonder why they chose Brittni Ruiz as an example of minors being enticed into the sex trafficking and porn industries when it states that she was in college when she was lured in? A better example would have been Traci Lords, who became one of the top stars in porn while still a minor. In a bizarre sort of way Traci Lord’s story was actually kind of inspiring. She was known in the industry as a hard worker who always showed up on time, was committed to her work and didn’t mess with drugs. She also had a head for business and many in the industry believe that she was the one who tipped the Feds off that she was a minor. It created a sensation, gave her loads of free publicity and got every one of her movies banned except the one that she produced and financed after she turned 18 and before the Feds were informed. She made a fortune from it and never worked in porn again.
Years ago, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert critiqued a movie “PORKY”S”. Siskel wondered why so many girls were willing to bear it all for movies and was reminded that if any girl balked at nudity in film, there were thousands willing to take her place.
It’s called exhibitionism. Then there are those who get trapped in it.
I read an article that Sigourney Weaver once wanted to make porn even after she was an established movie star. Nudity in major movies is now big business.
I tried to watch the movie BLACK SWAN (not the 1945 pirate movie)but it was too over the top toward porn I shut it off.
Regular movies are not infused with porn, pushing the limits each year.
***I suspect men are increasingly employing the Internet to aid in self-satisfaction.***
AT least that way your computer catches the diseases, not you! ;-D
At its root, trafficking is kidnapping.
Why is it not called that and prosecuted as such?
Because there hasn’t been any actors since the 60-70’s.
My addiction is hamburgers, but looking at them all day on the computer doesn’t self-satisfy until I hit the Whataburger.
ERROR!
Regular movies are not infused with porn,
Should read ...
Regular movie are NOW infused with porn,...
Note to self.
Proofread proofread proofread.
Remember when voyeurism was one of the sexual perversions?
Now the majority of movies, regardless of the subject, take the time to work in a couple of minutes of almost mandatory voyeurism forced onto the audience.
Many times we are practically scratching our heads, asking what is this sex scene supposed to do for the movie? Sometimes it is almost like a required commercial break, as though they have to add one in regardless of context.
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