Oh, hooray, ignoring my actual words in favour of pushing your own agenda. Here we go:
YOU said:
"if you watch any given porn video, you have no way of knowing that the woman in it isn't trafficked"
Correct?
And I responded:
"many porn stars are very well known and have done hundreds of videos. They attend porn conventions and view it as their career."
Which is a direct rebuttal of what you said.
If I go onto pornhub and I do a search for Asa Akira, Sasha Grey, or any number of hundreds of other women, I do, in fact, know without doubt that the person on the screen is over the legal age, not trafficked, and is doing it of their own free will, and has been for years. I am able to be certain of that information.
Yes, of course if I watched sketchy Russian porn filmed with a dead eyed model on the floor of an apartment, I could be pretty sure that she's been coerced into it, or trafficked, or whatever else. Which is why I don't watch porn like that, ever, and I recommend nobody else does either.
On the other hand I have no problem with professionals doing a job of their own free will, or people who are obviously couples.
Secondly:
YOU say:
"Are you saying we should ignore the problem of Male on female abuse and violence because other industries aren't whiter than white either? Besides you're comparing apples with oranges - trafficking women and children, rape and violence is very different to paying someone minimum wage."
Firstly, not all porn is male and female. Women watch porn, as do gay men, as do lesbians. If you don't know that, you really don't know enough to be passing judgement. Not all porn is manufactured for the male gaze. Understandably if you never actually bother to do any research of your own, or watch any porn yourself, you might not understand that.
Secondly, not all porn is abusive. Certainly most isn't rape. Again, I can only imagine you have no idea what you're talking about if you equate rape and porn. I suggest you talk to a porn star in person before deciding that you know better than they do whether they've been raped or not. Contact them on twitter, for example.
Thirdly, you obviously know NOTHING about business practices in the developing world if you think "paying someone minimum wage" is the worst thing that Apple or fashion brands are doing. Do yourself a favour and google some of it.
So on one hand, you've got a porn producer who pays a woman $500 to have sex with someone she doesn't have an emotional connection with.
On the other hand, you've got a multinational company paying thousands of people one dollar per day for 18 hours of backbreaking, nerve-wracking, dangerous and ultimately lethal work in sweatshops, factories and chemical plants.
No, you're right, obviously porn is worse than that.
And point out to me where I said you should ignore problems? Because I didn't. I simply said that some problems are bigger than others, and it's pretty much impossible to exist without contributing to them in one way or another. If you're going to get preachy about morality, then doesn't it make sense to turn your ire on the biggest problems first?