Some people need to ask themselvves...
Is having a bunch of jerk off material really worth supporting a human trafficking industry? If you think so,than you are a hypocrite if you EVER condemned The torture at Abu Gharib.
If you are such a selfish defensive in denial dick that you would choose to look the other way for the sake of your porn habit and possible human rights violations,you have no ethics and empathy and morally are no better than the tortuers at Guantanimo.They too have a rationale for what they choose to do too.Porn is not wrong or anything in of itself.
Porn becomes a criminal act when the people dipicted in the pictures are COERCED or forced to do exploitative sex to avoid abuse or starvation or because of a debt scam, a basement lock,a gun,or thugs holding them captive. This is how some porn is made in order to meet the demand.
If porn you look at is just a bunch of cute people taking nekkid pictures of each other willingly,for fun than it's normal,A truly innocent excercize of people's first amendment right,A sexual escapade that violates no ones human rights ONLY if the photos are not obtained by abuse,slavery,threats or cocercion.
So when I see all the selectively ignorant people on DU who insult me instead of CONSIDERING what I am saying,about human trafficking,to defend thier fetish.I question idf they have compassion at all..People who claim to be so'liberal' and concerned about human rights, that act like this..I wonder why they will not bother to question where SOME of those pictures they get off on may come from,but would rather say I am full of shit and insult me.Is it because they are in DENIAL?
I begin to wonder how much ethics do all these vocal and staunch porn advocates and the selfish people on DU have,especially those who refuse to make the logical connections between sex crimes and profits porn can generate that help feed the industry a reason to abuse people here have.
Sometimes producers of porn DO violate HUMAN RIGHTS for profit.Alot of industries toss away human rights for profit,why should the porn industry be magically exempted from corruption? That is a stupid fantasy to have. The porn industry,the profits and the demand it created has also created an excuse for human rights violations and there is very little oversight or effective law enforcement to make sure the performers/models are not held in captivity,cocerced ,not protected from criminals and abusers or if the porn was not obtained by force from people in captivity.
The criminal pornographers,kidnappers,abusers,slave owners, and sex slave traffickers make porn into a dirty, ugly abusive business. And it's all the millions of horny ignorant selfish people who think they are not defending human rights abuses for axcess to a few more naked pictures who have screwed up thier own damn priorities and choose to fail to see they are whom helps keep the demand going for more pictures and porn movies of different people, well beyond the limited numbers of people willing to devote thier lives to being a porn star.
So how do all the millions of people not seeking a career in porn get themselves stuck in porn careers? Desperation? Drugs? Cocercion? Manipulation? Escaping war? Sold as a sex slave by parents in debt slavery? Escaping abuse at home? Seeking passage to America through a mail order bride service that is really a front for human slave trafficking?
If you refuse to even question the possibility of porn industry having a connection to human trafficking/sex slave industry you are in active denial of the reality of supply and demand in a sexually repressed consumer culture thast is held together by cocercion and make believe.
If out of one side of your ass you complain about the immorality and sickness of tortures in other countries or the atrocities at Abu Gharib and you deny or excuse human trafficking because you want your porn,and you don't give a shit about who getrs hurt when it is made..you don't want porn producers to be held accountable for how porn is produced,like ANY industry than you are a hypocrite.
So many people right here are selfish hypocrite assholes in selective denial about porn,rape and abuse even here on DU it is disgusing.This denial hostility and hypocraisy is part of the problem that keeps corruption and human rights abuses alive in 21st century america.It's called ENABLING ABUSE.
FYI sex slaves can be found in anytown USA, any house can set up a porn web site and make mad money off the sex drive of millions of oblivious assholes like you insisting on aquiring a huge endless cache of porn..at any cost as long as you never have to question how it is made at what human cost.
I hate how godamn self absorbed,reactionary and selective some people can be concerning some issues and information they don't wanna hear.
Here are links to stuff about Slave trafficking in the US.
Just in case you need some proof to keep the denial from setting in.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1408233http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/190755_slavery15.htmlhttp://www.planusa.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/644