In other cases, survivors are exploited solely for the purpose of producing pornography. Traffickers then sell the content by uploading it to porn sites while simultaneously exploiting the victims through prostitution.
Some traffickers take pornographic photos of victims as a means of control, threatening to shame them by exposing the photos to their families. Trafficked individuals are often exploited in more than one way. What trafficking looks like in the porn industry Unfortunately, because of the way porn is produced and distributed, trafficking can be hard to identify. In the porn industry, human trafficking takes multiple forms. If any of these qualifiers are present, it’s human trafficking. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime defines human trafficking as any situation in which “force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control” are used to exploit another person.
