Pornography is shown to sex trafficking victims to train them in what they will have to perform/endure. Since they are not able to choose what they do, they will have to do whatever the client wants. Often, the client wants to perform sex acts they’ve seen in porn. They themselves have been educated by porn. Therefore, the victim will need to know how to execute various scenarios satisfactorily.

Forcing sex trafficking victims to watch porn also desensitizes them to the violence and humiliation. They see it happening and become used to it. It initiates them and lessens the outward emotional trauma.

Repeated and sustained viewing of pornography alters the way viewers think about sex and the presence of violence, even if the viewer will be on the receiving end. Dr. Mary Anne Layden of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania explains pornography is “a permission-giver for, and a trigger of many negative behaviors and attitudes that can severely damage not only the users but many others.” Sex traffickers understand the cognitive power of pornography to change the brain to accept porn life as real life. They use this reality against their trafficked victims. By forcing them to watch porn, traffickers force victims to normalize the abuse perpetrated against them.

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