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Dirty laundry piles up at Utah's anti-porn and anti-trafficking charities.
Pornography consumption has become pathologized by a class of so-called experts fighting "porn addiction," who rely on faulty evidence or who conflate the legal adult entertainment industry with being supposedly tied to human trafficking.
“Pornography is now fantasized to be a weapon of psychological warfare.” —historian Kristoff Kerl Nicole Gililland successfully sued her community college for discrimination based on her work as an adult performer. Advocate and author Tara Burns said that some anti-porn groups erroneously conflate sex work with sex trafficking.
Before his election as Utah Attorney General, Sean Reyes was a board member for the anti-pornography group Fight The New Drug.
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