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Are you of legal age? That's all you ask a kid who approaches pornography through a screen. 'Yes,' they reply, whether it's true or not. And that's it, he has just fallen into the trap of digital sex, a place that consumes him and from which he has very difficult to leave, "says Mabel Lozano. The film director is about to premiere on the Play platform of Spanish Television the documentary series 'PornoXplotación', three chapters based on the homonymous book she wrote with Police Inspector Pablo Fernández and that makes an exhaustive x-ray, through its protagonists, of what she calls prostitution 2.0., which has migrated to digital borders. "Pimps no longer go looking for women in their countries of origin; no need, they have them on TikTok, on Facebook ..., they are capturing them through social networks, from home, with a beer. They don't need to go to Colombia because in the networks there are many girls telling that they are poor and want to come to Europe," she explains.

And behind prostitution is the trafficking of women, says the director based on the figures: as just announced by Beatriz Sánchez, prosecutor of the Chamber of Trafficking and Immigration, 99% of those who practice prostitution in Spain are foreigners, migrants, and almost 95% of them do so as a result of a situation of vulnerability. "They are Romanian, African and South American, and they are forced to do so by necessity, precariousness and violence," says the director.

Mabel Lozano with Mirto suit and slippers by Lola Casademunt.ÁNGEL NAVARRETE

But what does porn have to do with prostitution, we asked. "Everything. Sex trafficking, pornography and prostitution make up the Bermuda Triangle," he replies bluntly. "Pornography is an enabler of prostitution. The kids see things that they then want to do and as they do not dare to ask their peers, their partners, where do they go?", he asks, with the conviction of someone who has been investigating the subject for more than 20 years from all angles and points of view.

As a result, several works, the latter "very hard, because it had never been spoken so loud and clear". It does so through real testimonies. One of them, that of a Spanish boy who consumes pornography, "like almost everyone now; from the age of 9 or 10, children carry a small porn cinema in their pockets," adds Mabel Lozano, pointing to her mobile. He tells why and how he got hooked, with his phone, and how in the end he lived by and for porn. "It shattered him. , like drugs, is addictive, you start an escalation that you can't stop. First you consume a few minutes and then life consumes you. We know it as digital cocaine. With fewer impacts, experts say, you get equally or more hooked. Not only is it aggressive, but it's highly addictive," Mabel insists.

When he tried to disengage, he didn't find any professionals who knew how to help him. Now things have changed and there are psychologists who are experts in pornography. Alejandro Villena is one of them and ratifies the words of the director with a simile: "You can have a traffic accident for many reasons, but if you drive drunk, you will almost certainly have it. It's the same with pornography. If you consume a lot, you will normalize certain behaviors." And these "will end up in prostitution and encourage the attitudes of the herds," says Mabel.

Along with Alejandro Villena, the series has other great experts, researchers and inspectors of Police and Civil Guard and also the authoritative voice of Lluís Ballester, sociologist at the University of Palma de Mallorca and one of the first to address this issue.

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They, stars; they, prostitutes

Among the other testimonies of PornoXplotación, those of two porn actors (one gay) and two actresses who play two real women who prefer to remain anonymous. "As in life itself, the documentary reflects the difference that exists in this industry between men and women. They are stars, heroes, some are welcomed at festivals just like Brad Pitt. But they are treated like prostitutes and they never get rid of that stigma, so they don't want to appear in the series, out of fear," explains Mabel.

The differences go further. In the documentary they talk about their working conditions, "they denounce that they do not make contracts, that they do not register them and that they sign rights in perpetuity. The actresses reveal a very different reality: they talk about exploitation and the objectification to which they are subjected," denounces the director. One of the protagonists is a woman from Madrid who was kidnapped and ended up being exploited in a club in Murcia; the other, a woman captured in Russia who came to Spain to shoot a porn video and ended up being the victim of a bukake [group sex practice where many masked men take turns to ejaculate on a kneeling woman who then drinks the semen of all of them]. It is the most brutal and perverse form of humiliation of women. And that's what the kids are seeing. It happens very often, every week; The most important porn actress is offered as Bukakera," he explains.

From prostitution to herds

Mabel Lozano insists that her complaint has nothing to do with morality or sexuality, but with violence. "On many occasions the pornography that kids are watching is ritualized in the street. Why does a 12-year-old boy want to rape a girl with all his friends? Where have you seen it? Where have you learned it? In pornography. And he doesn't just want to do it, he wants to share it later. Because his feat does not end until he teaches it, in the purest style of pornography, "he says. One of the most viewed videos on the Internet is that of a gang rape, with more than 300 million views, says the director. "Pornography normalizes that violence and perpetuates misogyny. Men are the subjects and women the objects, it is produced and directed mostly by men and also designed for them. The digital sex trap traps a lot of kids who end up thinking that a woman likes five guys to corner her in a doorway and rape her."

The hypersexualization of social networks adds another grain of sand to the arena. "Now it is normal to see on TikTok a 9 or 10-year-old girl touching herself, teaching ... normalizing things that are not at a certain age," says Mabel, who insists that "this has nothing to do with morality. They become very vulnerable girls because when a video is put online it ceases to be yours and you never get it back. And that marks your life later. Digital sex hides a very murky and very powerful business. On the Internet, even the bad guys seem good."

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The Only Fan phenomenon

Among the latest newcomers to this business, the Only Fan platform, says the director of PornoXplotación. "It was born in England to follow idols, but now it's a container for pornographic and sexual material. It's very easy to make a score and make money at the cost of ruining your life." In his documentary series, another testimony, that of the father of a girl from Madrid. "They said, 'You send me a sexy video and I'll send you money.' He found it very simple: I'm at home, I do only what I want, how I want and as far as I want, and I leave it whenever I want. But no. He sent it and the extortion and blackmail began. "We want another one that is more risqué or we share it with your parents, your siblings, your friends, your neighbors." She was a minor, a normal child in a normal family; He is now a protected witness."

In any case, Mabel Lozano points out that you should never put the ball in the court of women. "They are not to blame, you have to leave behind that 'you have to take care of yourself'. No one has the right to extort money from you. The problem is that many famous people say that Only Fan is fantastic and that it makes you a lot of money in a simple way, and the girls believe it. But it is full of predators that capture them, that are on the prowl. And when they fall into those nets they can't get out, they're made of cement."

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This documentary series was born with a vocation to take a step forward. "There is a lack of education, let's train our sons and daughters in egalitarian relationships. You can't buy a human being; There will always be someone with needs that will be offered. That's why it's important to release it on public TV and for free, that's how it had to be seen," he explains. "There are a lot of denialist people, who say that children don't fly to see a 'Superman' movie. There is a big difference: that is fiction and not pretending to look like anything else, but in pornography what is cool now is that everything is filmed and that it seems real, and that makes the rape of a group of boys to a 12-year-old girl look normal. "

What do you intend to achieve with PornoXplotación?, I ask him to close our meeting. "That the laws stalled for months in Congress against trafficking and pimping be put in place. That this progressive government that talks so much about equality and human rights takes them forward, "he concludes.

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