AN ARGUMENT AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY
P1. Pornography is a form of slavery
P2. Society should reject any form of slavery
C. Therefore society should reject pornography
CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY
An issue analysis from the Family Research Council says:
Pornography viewers’ use of pornographic material fuels the demand for sexual exploitation. Pornographers frequently use children and women who are forced, coerced, or fraudulently induced to be filmed or photographed engaging in sexual acts; this pornographic media is then sold for profit. Laura Lederer, JD stated her findings on Capitol Hill in which she recounted sex trafficking victims’ experiences, revealing that 29.3 percent had to recreate scenes from pornography and 17.1 percent were forcibly recorded for pornographic purposes. Over 25 percent of child traffickers in Lederer’s study took pictures of the children they were exploiting. Across all ages and in nine different countries, 49 percent of rescued sex trafficking victims report they were forced to participate in the production of pornographic material. Over half of U.S. women used in commercial sexual exploitation were either in pornographic material or threatened with the possibility. Many of these women report that making pornography is a routine aspect of being in prostitution, and oftentimes women who are trafficked are forced to make hardcore pornography. This hardcore pornography is sold and distributed online. Viewing pornography increases the demand for paid sex and the demand for sex-trafficked women. It is a vicious cycle.
https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF17K24.pdf