It’s Easy Out Here for a Pimp: How a Porn Culture Grooms Kids for Prostitution

Abstract

Researchers and service providers are familiar with the techniques used by pimps and perpetrators to groom children and teens for prostitution and other forms of sexual abuse and exploitation. This presentation examines the ways in which a pornified popular culture and media, increasingly omnipresent in the lives of children and adolescents, is now doing much of the perpetrators’ work for them. Our pornified commercial culture relentlessly trains girls to advertise and commodify their sexuality while training boys to be “users, takers, and pornography makers.” By shaping young people’s very identities at key stages of their development, the commercial forces driving contemporary popular culture render them extraordinarily vulnerable to what trauma researchers call “compliant victimization” by pimps and predators.

Rebecca Whisnant, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Department
University: University of Dayton
Location: Dayton, OH
Title of Presentation: It’s Easy Out Here for a Pimp: How a Porn Culture Grooms Kids for Prostitution