even glossing over the fact that voluntary sex work is an extremely western and privileged concept, a lot of women who started off loving their empowered sex work lifestyle end up getting STDs, experiencing assault and otherwise being victimized by virtue of being a part of the sex (trafficking) industry

this study was done in Canada on “off-street” sex workers (not porn specifically) but given the rate at which porn actresses become prostitutes i think the results could be extrapolated

- 24% experienced physical assault

- 18% experienced sexual assault

- 33% experienced violent threats

- 16% experienced violent threats with a weapon

- 21% reported that a client held them against their will at least once

- 33% experienced clients refusing to wear a condom

- 35% experienced clients refusing to pay predetermined amount

- 29% experienced incidents of violence not otherwise specified