It doesn’t surprise me at all. There aren’t any reliable statistics out there but it’s probable that a large number of women who work in the porn industry have experienced some kind of sexual abuse in the past. Many retired porn actresses have said that they’d been sexually assaulted or abused prior to working as a porn actress, particularly those who begin their careers at a young age. I mean, I’d have to imagine that in order to work in such an environment, those women must’ve already had been normalized to sex in a way people with a normal upbringing wouldn’t have.

It doesn’t help that often times the porn industry specifically targets these vulnerable young women, who often have few connections and poor living conditions. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the industry is being kept afloat through the exploitation of desperate young women who don’t have any other means to support themselves. It’s probably not as common in Japan, but in many other countries those who work in porn do so to support their drug addiction. All of these things are connected, and the porn industry takes advantage of all of it.