Published figure

263

U.S. hotline sex-trafficking cases in 2024 that listed pornography as a venue — alongside hotels, illicit massage, and street-based commercial sex. This is classified intake, not total prevalence.

What this number is

When the hotline could classify a sex-trafficking venue, 263 cases in 2024 listed pornography. That sits beside hotels, illicit massage, and street-based commercial sex as a recorded setting, not a metaphor.

Caveats

Venue is what the caller or case record named. Many cases have no venue. 263 is not the number of illegal videos made in America in 2024.

What the 90% is for

Polaris’s typology already treats pornography as a trafficking type when someone is exploited in it. The 90% is for hotline, aftercare, and casework in that pipeline — itemized, not inflated.