PORN 2024

May 20, 2024 Adam Riva

In PORN 2024, Adam Riva explores the manifold connections between the adult film industry and human trafficking, sex cults of the rich and powerful, the social engineering agenda to destabilize the nuclear family, and the latest science demonstrating the deleterious effects of porn on our brains, behaviors, and personalities.

This is a remastered version of Dauntless’ 2021 film EXPOSED.

TRANSCRIPT & SOURCES

For as long as there have been cameras, people have been taking pictures of the naked human body. Pornography in the early 1900s consisted primarily of photographs of nude women. These were often bought and traded discreetly like playing cards. Before that, there was not an outlet for men to pay to view naked women outside of visiting a brothel. By the time video cameras came around, pornography really began to take the form that we recognize today. People went from posing as nude models to engaging in the act of sex. However, before the internet made porn freely accessible, society generally viewed pornography as a vile, immoral, and shameful industry. Christian values still had a strong grip on Western culture from the early 1900s through to the 1970s and even the 1980s.

Looking back on films throughout the first half of the 20th century, we find it hard to believe the degree to which people’s bodies were considered private. In public, men could not show off their chests, women could not even show off their legs and arms, and neither men nor women were allowed to engage in physical intimacy. That all slowly began to change in the 1950s as television and films pushed the envelope of what was socially acceptable. By the time the hippie movement and second wave feminism began radically breaking down social norms in the 1960s and 70s, Western society began to adopt a very different attitude towards the human body, intimacy, sexuality, gender stereotypes, and promiscuity. The sexualization of society was well underway.

Two natural byproducts of this sudden and dramatic shift in cultural values were the repudiation of Christian values and the disintegration of the nuclear family. It can be argued that these two institutions held society together in an austere and virtuous way. As temperance surrendered to hedonism, the bedrock of the Western value system quickly began to erode.

With the dawn of the internet, the Tinder generation was given limitless sexual stimuli at their fingertips vis-à-vis hook-up apps and free pornography.

“A 2015 study by the Journal of Sex Research demonstrated that “constant novelty and primacy of sexual stimuli as particularly strong natural rewards make internet pornography a unique activator of the brain’s reward system” and “novelty is compelling because it triggers bursts of dopamine in regions of the brain strongly associated with reward and goal-directed behavior.””

Roughly 90% of young men and 30% of young women watch pornography daily or multiple times per week. There are now more than 4.5 million porn websites catering to every fetish imaginable. New research suggests that 22% of porn consumption by minors is by children under age 10 and, according to a study from the University of Nebraska, the average age of first exposure for men is 13. Over 28.5 billion free porn videos were streamed in the year 2017.

How did we get here?

According to the 2017 book Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction by Gary Wilson, pornography is a supernormal stimulus.

“Supernormal stimuli are exaggerated versions of normal stimuli that we falsely perceive as valuable. Interestingly, although it’s unlikely a monkey would choose images over real mates, monkeys will ‘pay’ (forego juice rewards) to view images of female monkey bottoms. Perhaps it’s not so surprising that today’s porn can hijack our instincts.

Science has demonstrated that even our closest evolutionary relatives, monkeys, are willing to forego food for porn. In a way, this seems reasonable. Simpler creatures are easier to confuse. How is it then that humans, which are far more self-aware than monkeys, are capable of falling for the same trick?

According to Wilson, artificial supernormal stimuli trigger large dopamine blasts that rewire our brains over time. Previously, pornography required imagination as reading stories or viewing magazines merely provided the kindling, but the mental work was still up to the viewer. However, pornography has evolved. The more real-world stimuli that porn can recreate, the more immersive and addictive it becomes. With a real partner, you get eye contact, touch, scent, sound, foreplay, sex, and so on. Today’s endless variety of sex toys, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, websites, virtual reality technologies, and other enhancements pack a powerful high that can overstimulate our dopaminergic system and have us coming back for more. If a user does not practice self-control, the supply will eventually dilute the demand.

“Today’s internet porn, however, is laced with supernormal stimulation. First, it offers endless novel hotties available at a click. Research confirms that anticipation of reward and novelty amplify one another to increase excitement and rewire the reward circuitry of the brain.

Second, internet porn offers countless artificially enhanced breasts and Viagra-sustained gargantuan penises, exaggerated grunts of desire, pile-driving thrusts, double or triple penetration, gang-bangs and other unrealistic scenarios.

Third, for most people, static images cannot compare with today’s hi-def 3- minute videos of people engaged in intense sex. With stills of naked bunnies all you had was your own imagination.

You always knew what was going to happen next, which wasn’t much in the case of a pre-internet 13-year old. In contrast, with an endless stream of ‘I can’t believe what I just saw’ videos, your expectations are constantly violated (which the brain finds more stimulating). Keep in mind also, that humans evolved to learn by watching others doing things, so videos are more powerful ‘how to’ lessons than stills.”

There are now websites dedicated to every fetish imaginable. They are called tube sites. “Normal sex” is now the minority as angry and vile sex has taken over. The objectification of the female body as merely a sexual toy has become ubiquitous. Fetishes like “sharking” – where individuals publicly strip the clothes off of an unsuspecting victim in public in broad daylight – are available for streaming. Nonsexual behavior has become sexualized – things like shaving, suntanning, changing clothes, and breastfeeding – are now exploited. Voyeurism, sex with the elderly, and incest have become categories on many websites. Are we being desensitized? Encouraged? Conditioned?

On July 7, 2017, The Stream ran an article entitled Normalizing Incest and Other Perversions: It’s Already Happening.

The article provides evidence that there is a cultural push from left wing news organizations like Salon, Vice, Cosmopolitan, Telegraph, and others to normalize incest, pedophilia, necrophilia, polygamy, drag queens, beasiality, and attraction to inanimate objects.

On July 7, 2017, Teen Vogue published an article entitled A Guide to Anal Sex that encourages and teaches underage minors how to have intercourse. The article was written by the Gigi Engle, your typical SJW nightmare who also published on Teen Vogue How to Masturbate if you Have a Penis just two weeks prior.

On September 6, 2017, Twitter banned an independent journalist named Elizabeth Johnston who writes for The Activist Mommy for criticizing the article and for calling out the editor, Phillip Picardi, by name.

We are witnessing the ubiquitous sexualization of society. Nothing is off limits, nothing is sacred, nothing is immoral, and no one can push bag against the mob.

HIJACKING YOUR SEXUALITY

Addiction takes the following path. First, the individual gets a taste of something he (his brain) enjoys. He repeats the behavior multiple times to achieve the pleasure again. His ability to refuse is weakened by the brain’s craving for the chemical that the behavior delivers. Addiction takes over and the individual begins to repeat the behavior unconsciously or unwillingly. Ultimately, desensitization starts to impair the pleasure response, so deviation begins. The individual must do the behavior more frequently or go to greater extremes to achieve the same level of pleasure. Addiction and perversion are two sides of the same coin.

With porn addictions, the case is the same. Individuals who have been addicted to porn for long periods of time must begin to deviate to stimulate their libidos.

Deviation in a porn addiction usually means fetishes, aggressive porn, public sex and the fear of getting caught, going to the ends of the age spectrum whether it is elderly or underage minors, bestiality, incest, or vile and disgusting nonsexual acts involving things like excrement.

The temptation to deviate is omnipresent. In fact, the algorithms and infrastructure are fundamentally designed to drive deviation. The tendency for one to merely “explore his or her sexuality” is without doubt socially reinforced now as taboos are embraced by pop culture types. But does that make it right? Does that make the abnormal natural?

Every year, PornHub releases what it calls “PornHub Insights” which are the search trends from the previous year.

Young men that have consumed large quantities of porn through their adolescence are now expecting the same type of sexual acts of their romantic partners. The rough, degrading, and extreme sex acts that they watch porn stars perform on screen are now the baseline for what is considered normal and pleasurable. This pressure is pushing many young women out of their comfort zone or to do things they will later regret. What most viewers fail to realize is that porn stars are acting. Men take Viagra, women take painkillers, most orgasms are fake, and livestream webcam sites are an elaborate scam.

Porn’s social ramifications may be obvious, but it also comes at a personal cost. According to The Hill,

“The Minnesota Human Trafficking Task Force found 46 published research studies demonstrating that exposure to pornography puts individuals at increased risk for committing sexual offenses.”

Ten different studies have now linked porn consumption to anxiety and one study has linked it to shyness. Almost a dozen studies link porn use to depression. Other associated links include psychotic schism, paranoid thinking, stress, psychosomatic symptoms, and narcissism. Several studies have linked it to impulsiveness. Research has linked it to diminished concentration, diminished academic performance, diminished executive function, and diminished memory.

PORN AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

On August 3, 2018, The Philly Voice broke the story of the U.S. District Judge in Philadelphia who reversed U.S. Code Title 18 Section 2257. This law prohibited underage performers from being filmed and required producers of pornography to maintain stringent records of the ages of performers for federal agents to inspect to hold the industry accountable.

The article reads,

“The Aug. 3 legal decision, which has received far less media attention than it deserves, represents the most significant blow to opponents of child porn in decades. We believe it could lead to a sharp increase in the number of underage performers being exploited due to the removal of legal oversight and penalties for uploading or distributing images that feature minors.”

The regulations requiring legal oversight in the porn industry initially “came in response to the public outcry that ensued when Penthouse magazine featured a 15-year-old Traci Lords in its September 1984 edition.”

Lords was not the only child photographed for adult consumption. In 1975, Playboy-owned Sugar ‘n’ Spice magazine ran a dozen nude photographs of 10-year-old Brook Shields. Five years later, Shields sought to legally have the images removed from circulation due to distress. The judge, however, did not rule in her favor and allowed the child pornography to remain in distribution.

How is this happening? Who is pushing for these changes and why?

According to the 2017 documentary Pornocracy, the entire industry has been run primarily by one company since at least 2012. Manwin Holdings Sarl, otherwise known as Manwin Group, established a near monopoly in the industry after purchasing 35 of the largest streaming sites in the world, all before ever entering the American market. On paper, a man named Fabian Thylmann (teelman) was the founder and CEO. However, this was disputed by many within the industry as well as journalists covering the story. Thylmann represented the company publicly, but the true leadership of the corporation is highly questionable.

This is where the rabbit hole becomes a bottomless pit.

When adult film director and blogger Mike South received a tip from a Manwin insider to look into Fortress Investment Group, he found that they had purchased part of a loan from Colbeck Capital to the tune of $350 million in order for Manwin to purchase some of these larger tube sites. His investigation revealed that not one single subsidiary of Manwin Group was profitable. South claims to have received 6 anonymous death threats since he began exposing industry corruption.

“It appears that their primary industry is not pornography, but moving money from country to country to country to country – what we call in America ‘money laundering’.”

Essentially, free tube sites have made porn a failing business, even for the largest porn company in the world.

This begs the question: If the largest international porn companies are not making money legally, where are their billions in revenue coming from?

The porn industry as we know it would not exist without Wall Street.

In December of 2012, Thylmann was arrested on tax evasion charges. He sold off all his shares and Manwin Group then changed its name to MindGeek. Since the beginning of ManWin’s reign and through to the present era of MindGeek, many have questioned its mafia ties to Central America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Asia.

Much like YouTube and Facebook, which would not have survived and risen to dominate their respective social media arenas if it were not for money that was quietly funneled through the CIA and Darpa, MindGeek would also not be the industry leader without Deep State support.

Furthermore, following the flow of money often to leads to offshore accounts, contradictory information, redundant social media profiles, spam accounts, forged documents, or people unwilling to divulge what they know. One investigation conducted by the US Secret Service Organized Fraud Task Force in 2009 uncovered money laundering in Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank, Israel, and other countries on financial-fraud watch lists. Other investigations have found ties to Goldman Sachs and other large investment firms.

So, we still have the lingering question, how does the porn industry generate billions of dollars in annual revenue?

According to a 2018 article by National Review entitled Porn and Human Trafficking Reinforce Each Other,

“Finding porn is easier than ever, and the porn is more violent. Chances are, porn viewers have encountered videos in which performers appear nonconsensually, under life-threatening circumstances. Viewers are unable to distinguish a “consensual” video from a nonconsensual video because violence is now standard fare.”

Regarding the exploitation of underage girls in the industry, the article goes on to mention,

“According to many survivors of sex trafficking, there is often no way to know whether a girl in a pornographic video is appearing on camera under coercive, nonconsensual, or threatening circumstances. Viewers can’t know whether they are viewing a child or whether the “performer” is being raped on camera.”

The article asserts that the porn industry is a vector for the fastest-growing organized crime in the world, human trafficking.

This is corroborated by a 2018 article entitled Porn Consumption is Contributing to Child Sex Trafficking Epidemic published by The Hill. The article insists that human trafficking yields over $32B in annual profits for traffickers. Nearly 70% of these transactions take place online.

“A 2016 study by the Center for Court Innovation found that between 8,900 and 10,500 children, ages 13 to 17, are commercially exploited each year in the United States.”

Is it possible that the multibillion-dollar porn industry is built on the back of a massive sex trafficking network? It certainly appears so, and the evidence is rapidly accumulating.

The Protection Project is a human rights institute with the mission to end human trafficking. In an article entitled The Slave and the Porn Star: Sexual Trafficking and Pornography published in its fifth issue of the Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society, it expounds on the prevalence of human trafficking in the porn industry.

“…while trafficking for the purpose of the production of pornography is not a widely known or recognized form of trafficking, incidents of coerced participation in pornography are far from trivial.”

The authors add,

“It has been said that prostitution and pornography are “symbiotically related” to sex trafficking and that the latter “would not exist without the former.”

According to an Exodus Cry article entitled How Pornhub makes Trafficking Easy published on August 7, 2020,

“It’s estimated that human trafficking earns roughly $150 Billion a year for traffickers, of which about $100 billion comes from commercial sexual exploitation. It’s a massive criminal industry that enslaves somewhere between 20-40 million people worldwide.”

Among the recent Pornhub scandals are Girls Do Porn which was found guilty of sexually exploiting 22 women and sex trafficking a minor, Czech Casting which was found guilty of human trafficking, sexual coercion, and rape, the case of a 14 year old Californian girl whose rape videos were shared, and the case of a 15 year old Floridian sex trafficking victim who was found after 58 separate rape videos were distributed on the site. While these instances only involve Pornhub, keep in mind its parent company, MindGeek, owns Brazzers, MOFOs, Digital Playground, and dozens more that have each had their share of scandals. MindGeek has also created a dark web mirror of its site that provides a VPN to users to hide their locations.

“Recent evidence has revealed that Pornhub is willing to host and profit from videos depicting just about anything. Rape, human trafficking, child sexual abuse material, non-consenual “revenge” porn, and other forms of image-based abuse have all found a home on Pornhub.”

Jenna Jameson, former adult film star named “the queen of porn,” has publicly condemned Pornhub by saying,

“Pornhub profits off of the rape and torture of women and children. Take a stand against these monsters at MindGeek…Shut it DOWN.”

Public pressure following a New York Times investigation has finally resulted in MasterCard and Visa launching investigations of their own into MindGeek’s child trafficking allegations as of December 2020.

The New York Times article reads,

“Its site is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags. A search for “girls under18” (no space) or “14yo” leads in each case to more than 100,000 videos. Most aren’t of children being assaulted, but too many are.”

On April 21, 2018, The Sun reported on NXIVM, a sex slave cult where women were starved, blackmailed, beaten, and branded. The cult recruited some celebrities and pulled in millions of dollars from its members. The cult’s leader, Keith Raneiere, brainwashed women to hand over nude images, financial information, and secret confessions to be used as blackmail.

On June 19, 2019 an article in The New York Times reported,

“Mr. Raniere was convicted of a raft of crimes including, racketeering, sex trafficking, conspiracy, forced labor, identity theft, sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. Five women with senior roles in the group, including Ms. Mack and Ms. Bronfman, pleaded guilty to various crimes before trial.”

On October 27, 2020, Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison.

NXIVM members at the highest levels were branded with the founder’s initials, KR for Keith Raniere. Internet sleuths pointed out that porn star Stormy Daniels bore a scar that resembled the brand that other women received. It even appears to be in the same location. Daniels rebutted this on Twitter, dismissing the accusations as conspiracy theories. She insisted that it was a surgical scar, not a brand.

However, this so-called conspiracy theory took an unexpected turn when Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, attempted to insert himself to Clare Bronfman’s defense team. Bronfman, billionaire heiress to the Seagram’s liquor fortune, was found guilty for her involvement in and bankrolling of NXIVM.

On July 18, 2018, Benjamin Szemkus passed a polygraph administered by Certified Polygraph Examiner/Private Investigator Steve Hamre wherein Szemkus testified that he attended a NXIVM “mixer” event in 2007. Szemkus claims that he met and spoke briefly with Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, former Attorney General of New York Eric Schneiderman, Clare and Sara Bronfman, James Alefantis – and Stormy Daniels.

An article by Forbidden Knowledge describes more of the situation,

“In 2007, Szemkus was studying at Southern Connecticut State University when he recalls his girlfriend being invited to what was being called a “Women’s Empowerment Group Mixer”, mostly with female students from Yale University. The women were momentarily separated from the men, during which time they were made to watch what was described to him as what he now calls “the infamous ‘Snuff Video’”.”

The snuff video in question is a rumored video of pedophilia involving Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton.

Popular YouTube channel Bombard’s Body Language reviewed his testimony and also concluded that he was telling the truth. The majority of the VIPs allegedly present at the 2007 mixer have since become embroiled in sex scandals of their own. Keith Raniere, Clare and Sara Bronfman, and Allison Mack were exposed with the fall of NXIVM, Eric Schneidermann was forced to resign over 4 cases of sexual assault, Anthony Weiner was convicted of exchanged sexual material with a minor, and James Alefantis stood accused of pedophilia after Wikileaks released the Clinton and Podesta emails.

If Daniels was involved in NXIVM at the highest level, it might help to explain how she became the darling of the media when she was used by the Deep State as a weapon to smear President Donald Trump with now disproven accusations.