Ann Bartow at Feminist Law Professors takes issue with Condoleeza Rice's focus on the trafficking of children into pornography without acknowledging the forced sexual slavery of adult women:
Note that the only reference to pornography in this passage is to “child pornography.” The Report references child pornography 29 times, but the forced participation of women in pornography not at all. There is plenty of evidence that women who are “prostituted” (to use the terminology of the report) are also force filmed, so that videos of their rapes can be distributed commercially (see e.g. this, and this, cf this HHS report, and see generally). Why this category of sexual exploitation doesn’t merit mention by the State Department’s Report is quite disturbing. Surely Rice doesn’t think that women held captive and forced into prostition are appearing in pornography voluntarily.
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