Two speakers argue that pornography drives demand for human trafficking by escalating viewers' desires toward increasingly extreme content. They cite work with Refined, a Colorado anti-trafficking organization, claiming that reducing porn consumption would cut trafficking. The conversation frames porn not as harmless but as a pipeline to exploitation.
that's like pushing you there. Because I think a lot of people, another lie is that porn's just a sexual thing. Hey, I'm a guy. I need to fill my needs. I just, I roll my eyes sometimes where guys are like, well, if there was no porn, then like, you know, men would just be running around like crazy doing crazy things. I'm like, if you like have that little of self-control or value in your life, like, yeah, maybe. Yeah.
But what they don't understand is that the porn itself is giving them the sex drive that makes them feel like they can't stop. Yeah.
Yeah, and I mean, I just got done— my last episode was with, um, an anti-trafficking, uh, one of the organizations that works in Colorado that I'm starting to partner with. Sweet. I met them through church. They're called Refined. I mean, they're just talking about how they said, like, if there was no porn, there'd be no trafficking. It fuels the demand. I mean, when you're watching this stuff and you have that proclivity and you keep feeding it, you're gonna eventually want more stuff, and you're gonna, you're gonna go lower in your age, and you're gonna start to, like, actually seek out