Human trafficking abolitionist Jaco Booyens says porn feeds the climb of child sexual exploitation

Anti-human trafficking activist Jaco Booyens said Saturday that the pornography industry fuels the exploitation and abuse of children. 

"Take personal accountability. Understand that pornography feeds the climb of child sexual exploitation," Booyens said in an interview on the Brace 4 Impact podcast. "When you watch porn, you're demanding content. That content is exploitive content. It exploits people."

Booyens referred to pornography as an in-demand drug that exploits people. 

"You're demanding that someone somewhere in the world produce exploitive content on another human being," he continued. "It will always result in child pornography because it's a drug and nobody stays static on a drug. You progress. So take accountability and walk away from being part of creating the demand."

Booyens became active in the fight against human trafficking after his sister was trafficked for six years before being rescued. He now runs a non-profit called Jaco Booyens Ministries that brings awareness to child sex trafficking. He has also made films such as Sex Nation and 8 Days that do deep dives into human trafficking in America. 

Child trafficking has been highlighted in the news as a House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing earlier this week titled "The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children," which included whistleblower testimony from former Health and Human Services official Tara Lee Rodas.

Rodas said in her testimony that the U.S. government was becoming a "middleman" in a multi-billion dollar migrant trafficking operation at the southern border.

"Cartels are using children as trading cards," Booyens said in another interview with Fox News. 

"It's the largest human trafficking endeavor maybe since the Israelites in Egypt," he later said. "To be honest with you, we've never seen anything like this."

He called on everyday Americans to pressure elected officials to do something about the crisis. 

"When you apply a holy pressure on an elected official, that's when they move," he said. "They live in self preservation."