At both the federal and state levels, law enforcement agents and prosecutors are working hard to stop sexual trafficking.

In large measure, these individuals are also turning a blind eye towards the ever-expanding problem of “adult” obscenity that helps stimulate the demand for both adult and child prostitutes. “Adult” obscenity does not depict actual children, but it does include hardcore pornographic depictions of sex with persons who look like children, sex with barely legal teens, sex with urine, feces or vomit, sex with dominatrixes, rough sex, unsafe sex, and the degradation, rape and torture of women. Except for pay, many men would find it difficult if not impossible to find a woman who would consent to participate in such activities. What the agents and prosecutors fail to see (or refuse to acknowledge) is that by ignoring the explosion of “adult” obscenity, which helps drive the demand for adult and child prostitutes, they are undermining their efforts to curb sexual trafficking.

The evidence set forth here is the tip of the iceberg.We found a statistically significant association between these punters’ pornography use and the frequency of their use of women in prostitution. We compared

men who were high frequency users of prostitutes (once a month or more) to those who were low frequency users (once or twice, ever) with respect to their use of print, video and Internet pornography. Those who were the most frequent users of pornography were also the most frequent users of women in prostitution.

John W. Kennedy, “Help for the Sexually Desperate,” Christianity Today, Mar. 2008 [published at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/march/18.28.html]: Viewing pornography is nearly always accompanied by masturbation…“If a guy masturbates to something it would take a prostitute to do, he’s more likely to find one.” Finlo Rohrer, “The men who sleep with prostitutes,” BBC News Magazine, Feb. 22, 2008 [Published at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7257623.stm]: Management consultant Pete…is blunt about his motivation for buying sex. “I’ve not had sex with my wife for at least five years,” he says…Having visited prostitutes for 18 months, Pete says he was attracted while surfing on the Internet. “I’ve been leading up to it; using pornography and looking at various websites. Rather than being a fantasy it was someone you could have sex with.” Sexual Trafficking and Pornography: The Link Between the Two - Reported by Robert Peters of MIM

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