Epstein was an amateur rapist, not a pro rapist. His cabal—the parts of it that are actually confirmed and not just speculated about baselessly—seems extremely limited in scope compared to the kinds of industrial conspiracies that people propose about child sex work. Most of epstein’s victims only ever had sex with Epstein, and only one of them—Virginia Giuffre—ever appears to have publicly claimed being passed around to many of Epstein’s friends.
What I am referring to are claims an underworld industry for exploiting children the primary purpose of which is making money. For example, in the Sound of Freedom, a large part of the plot hinges on the idea that there are professionals who literally bring kidnapped children from South America into the United States so that pedophiles here can have sex with them. I submit that this industry in particular does not exist, or at least would be a terrible way to make money on a risk-adjusted basis compared to drug dealing.
Wikipedia currently writes “Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his properties to allegedly record sexual activity with underage girls of prominent people for criminal purposes such as blackmail.”
This suggests that more than one underage girl was passed around. The fact that the others don’t have the same courage as Virginia Giuffre to speak publically about it, does not mean that there wasn’t a problem.
It does show that the system to suppress information about it is working well, which is also shown by the fact that the FBI did not lose that video stack as material for prosecuting all those people.
I submit that this industry in particular does not exist, or at least would be a terrible way to make money on a risk-adjusted basis compared to drug dealing.
The blackmail potential existing matters in addition to being directly paid. J. Edgar Hoover could be effectively blackmailed by the mafia into saying that there’s no mafia by having photos of his homosexual activities, but these days that wouldn’t be enough to blackmail anybody.
Understanding how organizations like Epsteins operate is hard because they do everything they can to avoid being well understood.
As far as industry goes, it’s quite old but https://wikileaks.org/wiki/an_insight_into_child_porn is a good read about how child pornography worked two decades ago. It’s not the same as child prostitution but it’s a good article about ground realities.
Epstein was an amateur rapist, not a pro rapist. His cabal—the parts of it that are actually confirmed and not just speculated about baselessly—seems extremely limited in scope compared to the kinds of industrial conspiracies that people propose about child sex work. Most of epstein’s victims only ever had sex with Epstein, and only one of them—Virginia Giuffre—ever appears to have publicly claimed being passed around to many of Epstein’s friends.
What I am referring to are claims an underworld industry for exploiting children the primary purpose of which is making money. For example, in the Sound of Freedom, a large part of the plot hinges on the idea that there are professionals who literally bring kidnapped children from South America into the United States so that pedophiles here can have sex with them. I submit that this industry in particular does not exist, or at least would be a terrible way to make money on a risk-adjusted basis compared to drug dealing.
Wikipedia currently writes “Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his properties to allegedly record sexual activity with underage girls of prominent people for criminal purposes such as blackmail.”
This suggests that more than one underage girl was passed around. The fact that the others don’t have the same courage as Virginia Giuffre to speak publically about it, does not mean that there wasn’t a problem.
It does show that the system to suppress information about it is working well, which is also shown by the fact that the FBI did not lose that video stack as material for prosecuting all those people.
The blackmail potential existing matters in addition to being directly paid. J. Edgar Hoover could be effectively blackmailed by the mafia into saying that there’s no mafia by having photos of his homosexual activities, but these days that wouldn’t be enough to blackmail anybody.
Understanding how organizations like Epsteins operate is hard because they do everything they can to avoid being well understood.
As far as industry goes, it’s quite old but https://wikileaks.org/wiki/an_insight_into_child_porn is a good read about how child pornography worked two decades ago. It’s not the same as child prostitution but it’s a good article about ground realities.