Guest Speaker- Brent

Question 1

Essentials to Human Existence

Answer 1

• Air
• Sustenance
• Sex
  Peace of A.S.S.

Question 2

What is Commercial Sex?

Answer 2

Sexual acts given in exchange for money, goods or services

Question 3

Two Legal redlight districts

Answer 3

• San Francisco, Cal
  ○ First strip club
• Waco, TX
  ○ The Reservation

Question 4

Commercial Sex Industry

Answer 4

• 540.75B Globally
  ○ Prostitution- 186B
  ○ Porn- 100B
  ○ Stripping-75B
  ○ Novelty (Sex toys)- 49B
  ○ Trafficking-172B

Question 5

Prostitution

Answer 5

• 80% have been raped
• Legalized prostitution in Nevada has led to an increase in the state’s illegal sex trade. 63% higher than NY
• Women in prostitution are disproportionately impoverished, undereducated, ethnic minorities and those few marketable job

Question 6

Stripping

Answer 6

• More strip clubs in US then anywhere in the world- Texas has the highest number of strip clubs
• Performers experience; physical assault, attempted vaginal penetration (with fingers, bottles or cellphones) attempted rape and verbal threats
• 65% Identify as victims of Sexual exploitation
• 31% identity as victims of sex trafficking

Question 7

Trafficking

Answer 7

• Fastest growing criminal industry of the 21st century
• Texas is #2 with most trafficking victims – Houston the #1 city
• Defined as Using force, frau or coercion to induce as individual to sell sex
• Victims have a 7-year life expectancy
• Traffickers can make $150+ off of a single victim making it more profitable than selling drugs

Question 8

Porn

Answer 8

• Real talk about sex from those who know it best:
  ○ Although pornography does not always represent sexual interactions and behaviors typical of everyday life, and often depicts diverse fantasies and roles-play by consenting amateurs and professionals, it can promote diverse sexual practices and allow individuals to explore their own sexuality and sexual preferences.
• US is the leading producer of the worlds porn
• Porn earns more money than the MLB, NFL , and NBA combined
• Porn sites get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined
• Porn consumers more likely to forward intimate images without consent
• 64% of 13-24-year-olds seek porn weekly
• Top 50 films– 97% contain verbal and physical aggression by men toward women
• 56% of divorced cases involved “one party obsessive interest in porn”
• 17% of porn consumers attempt suicide, 72% have considered it

Question 9

Only fans

Answer 9

• Founded in 2016– The Etsy for digital creators
• By 2020, revenues were 400M up 540 from 2019— 2023, 2.5B
• 98% of all content on OF is adult contain
• Average users age 29
• 38% of amount holders had previously been arrested for prostitution-related offenses
• 20% amount OF collected from content creators
• 30% of creators feel pressure by OF to create more constant content, or else they will remove their account
  34% of creators experienced negative physical or

Question 10

Normalization of explicit and sexual content on only fans can contribute to ______ attitudes and behaviors

Answer 10

harmful

Question 11

Porn and brains

Answer 11

porn releases
* Endorphins
* Dopamine
* Oxytcin

Question 12

Sugaring

Answer 12

• Allowance given in exchange for company
• Typically leads to sexual requests
  ○ If you’re in it only for an “allowance”, as they call the unofficial financial agreement between Sugar Babies and Sugar daddies, he’ll sense it. They’re not. Stupid. They have money for a reason

Question 13

Money spent on porn

Answer 13

• $3300 every sec
  
  • $285M every week
  • $8.6B every month
  • $104B every year

Question 14

Potential Global Impact

Answer 14

• Global Poverty
• Business
• Education
• Infrastructure
• Healthcare
• Climate change