A few weeks ago, rumors began spreading online that Nicole Doshi was missing. But Doshi wasn’t missing. Nor is she a sex trafficking victim, she emphatically told The Daily Beast in an interview. This wasn’t the first time someone had made a claim like this about me,” Doshi explained.
Many anti-porn and anti-trafficking groups have long argued that most (if not all) adult performers are actually victims in need of help—even if they say otherwise. Sex trafficking is, of course, a serious problem, and there have been several alleged and confirmed cases in the porn world. But most claims of pervasive abuse and trafficking in porn are based on dubious statistics, logical fallacies, and pure conjecture. So, like other sex workers, porn stars often have to contend with campaigns ostensibly created to help them, but that end up misrepresenting them and drawing attention away from their own efforts to address issues they do struggle with.