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Porn Actress Exposes Industry: Trafficking in the Porn Industry - The Pink Cross

Elements of Sex Trafficking

Act: Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons; Means: Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim; Purpose: Prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, or slavery. - From the 2000 UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, ratified by 154 countries. (x)

[Highlighted elements of sex trafficking in the porn industry connect with the examples Lubben gives in this specific gifset, other elements do occur in the porn industry as well].

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“The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act defines the crime of human trafficking as:

A. The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act where such an act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age, or

B. The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.” - (x)

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… [P]ersons are trafficked into the international sex trade, often by force, fraud, or coercion. The sex industry has rapidly expanded over the past several decades. It involves sexual exploitation of persons, predominantly women and girls, involving activities related to prostitution, pornography, sex tourism, and other commercial sexual services. The low status of women in many parts of the world has contributed to a burgeoning of the trafficking industry. - The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act (TVPA). TVPA combats trafficking in persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and involuntary servitude. It has been reauthorized three times since its initial passage: (x)

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Never settle for less than you deserve, if you’re unhappy move on you will find happiness eventually and when you do it will be such a wonderful feeling.

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Donald Trump just made his support for overturning Roe v Wade crystal clear

Trump came out strongly against abortion rights, saying if he were elected president he would appoint Supreme Court justices that would “automatically” overturn Roe v. Wade — the case that gives women the right to an abortion. Trump also made strongly worded comments about late-term abortions.

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The way people treat you, is a statement about who they are as a human being. It is not a statement about you.

Anonymous (via wnq-anonymous)

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Stop wondering why they didn’t want you.

Stop telling yourself that you were a burden or that you were too distant or too sad or too needy. Because one day, someone will love you for your “too much”s and “not enough”s.

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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Baruch Spinoza (via purplebuddhaproject)

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how can you not think space is cool???? how can you not look at the sky and get completely fucked up thinking about it???? how can you think science is boring???????

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me at the store: do i want some snacks? nah it's ok

me at home: past me was a fucking dumbass

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DUDE OMG

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Best day at the lake.

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Why do boys care if girls fill in their eyebrows I mean if boys had the chance to draw more inches on their dick I bet they would