Two of the biggest sex trafficking scandals of our time didn’t come from porn. They didn’t come from strip clubs. They came from Hollywood and the music industry—industries wrapped in money, prestige, and cultural legitimacy.

And yet somehow, no one says “ban Hollywood.”

• No one looks at actors and says they’re all complicit.
• No one treats every film set like a crime scene.
• No one assigns collective guilt to everyone who’s ever been on a casting call.

But sex workers? Porn performers? Different story.

• They get the disgust.
• They get the blanket blame.
• They get erased “for their own good.”

Every time I point this out, people pause. They go quiet. Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

What’s happening is not subtle. You are watching powerful, wealthy, socially insulated people avoid consequences in real time. You are watching how money and status protect abusers. And instead of confronting that, you want to ban the one area where sex work is legal, documented, and—yes—visible.

• That’s not about stopping trafficking.
• That’s about control.

Porn is not the problem. Sex work is not the problem. The problem is power. The problem is that some people are so rich and protected that they can hurt others without accountability. But you don’t want to deal with that, because that would mean challenging systems you benefit from or are afraid of.

So you look for an easier target.

Sex workers become your dumping ground. Your moral landfill. Your sacrificial lamb.

You claim to care about victims while attacking the very people who are asking for labor rights, safety, and autonomy. You claim to care about children while upholding a white supremacist, puritanical, patriarchal culture that has always protected abusers and punished the marginalized.

Let’s be honest: this culture is obsessed with punishing sexuality, not preventing harm.

That’s why actors are “misled” or “coerced” or “victims of the industry,” but porn performers are “disgusting,” “responsible,” or “asking for it.” That’s why entire platforms are targeted instead of the people with actual power. That’s why legality and consent suddenly don’t matter once the worker is someone you don’t respect.

• You don’t actually give a fuck about trafficking.
• You don’t give a fuck about victims.
• You don’t give a fuck about children.

You care about looking morally superior while real harm continues unchecked. You care about optics while human rights are stripped away. You care about feeling righteous without doing anything that actually threatens the status quo.

And the worst part? You think this makes you compassionate.

It doesn’t.

It makes you valuable to the same systems that keep abuse hidden, protected, and profitable.

This is happening right in front of you.

And attacking sex workers instead of power is not ignorance anymore.

It’s a choice.