In a recent conservative report for Focus on the Family publication Family News In Focus, a staff writer wrote that many people see a connection between the porn industry and those forced into the sex trade.
Here’s another reason to fight pornography, staff writer Josh Montez writes; it feeds human sex trafficking. 18,000 people from around the world are sold into sex slavery in the United States and 70 percent of internet porn is produced here claims Montez.
Wade Horn, of the Department of Health and Human Services, says there is a connection.
“By viewing hard core pornography, it can lower the threshold of some individuals in participating in actual acts of sexual violence or perhaps participating in other aspects of this sex industry such as prostitution.”
Montez’s story goes on to say that Donna Hughes researches human trafficking for the University of Rhode Island. She calls pornography and human trafficking the same thing.
“Because of the evolution of the laws in this country we somehow think that pornography is not connected with prostitution. In fact, the very meaning of the word pornography is the photography of prostitutes.”
Daniel Weiss with Focus on the Family Action, a vehemently right wing group, believes the key to fighting human trafficking rests with the Department of Justice enforcing existing obscenity laws.
“Unless the President really gets tough on the trafficking in obscenity here in the U.S., I’m afraid we’re not going to see any real decrease in trafficking in actual human beings.”
The story concludes by saying that Weiss complains that many obscenity laws aren’t being enforced; pointing out it’s a felony to transport, distribute, disseminate, sell or give away obscene material.
