Big-Time Porn Star Addresses NYU Students about Human Trafficking
If one were to crunch the numbers, it is likely more porn stars are invited to speak at American colleges than conservatives.
That being noted, New York University (the home of the “Hookup Facebook Page”) recently hosted an event that featured one of the porn industry’s biggest stars for an appearance that was at lease somewhat scholarly in nature.
Porn performer Ron Jeremy, the man listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for “most appearances in adult films,” addressed students at NYU on Tuesday as part of a debate on the effect of pornography on the sex trafficking industry.
Ron Jeremy, porn star extraordinaire, and Craig Gross, pastor of non-profit Christian website XXXchurch.com that helps people stop watching porn, spoke at the event “Free Porn? Porn Stars vs. Pastors.” The discussion was organized by The Price of Life: NYC, a “city-wide, campus-based, faith-inspired campaign addressing human trafficking in all its forms,” and invited the two men to debate pornography’s impact on society, specifically on human trafficking.
“What we were trying to get at was that there is a link between human trafficking and porn,” POL’s campus coordinator Andrea Mufarreh said. “There are most definitely cases where women are forced into human trafficking and are being forced into the underground porn industry.”
… Here’s a summary of the main points they covered:
On human trafficking in pornography:
Craig Gross: There’s a lot of stuff that I’ve heard of with the Internet that’s not produced by the companies in LA that’s got girls underage that probably deals with potentially trafficked girls. They’re not going to touch it in their industry, but does it exist? Is it online? Yes.
Ron Jeremy: Trafficking is more a prostitution of minors. I don’t know of anyone videotaping, because why would anybody take a chance with breaking the law? People don’t want to just put you in jail. They want to kill you for something like that. They’re not going to video it because they’re going to be tracked down that way. Trafficking is more of a prostitution thing, it’s not a porn thing.
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