I made the statement earlier about the whole foundation of gender inequality and opportunity equity across the world. I think the pornography industry and the demand for all these things play a massive role in trafficking. The things that Bonnie was talking about, that make our young women vulnerable; not to pontificate, but it's an overarching attitude of our society that allows these types of activities to continue and that the commodification of the female body is an acceptable occurrence.
Many of our young women aren't actively engaged in pornography in the ways that we used to understand it, so not in the California Valley of skin flicks, but much more in terms of exotic dancing and escorting. There's the whole notion of sugar daddies and sugar babies. I would make a direct connection to that kind of acceptance and understanding that when I'm a young woman and I look to ways in which I can feel valuable or make money, I look to my own body. That's an unfortunate place to begin. We do have young women who do sex-cam work, but most of our stuff is directly related to sex acts, providing sex for service.
I would wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion that there is a direct link to pornography and the sex industry.