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Organisations that employ or recruit adults to work with children could commit to activelyscreening workers to ensure that there has been no history or incident of inappropriateconduct. Experts have developed mechanisms for identifying or profiling, and forrecognising signs of possible abuse. Screening programmes are particularly importantfor businesses such as summer camps, boarding schools and daycare facilities. There is aplethora of ways in which private sector industries that are in no way directly implicated inCSEC can still assist in its elimination that will be described later in this study.A final group of businesses that may or may not be directly involved in CSEC activitiesare those associated with the “adult sex industry” (a.k.a “adult entertainment industry”). Inthis context, these actors are even more controversial than organised crime syndicates asmany child advocates suggest that the very nature of the adult sex industry places youthat risk. Little has been written on the links between this industry and commercial sexualexploitation of children. Businesses that may have such a connection include publishersand producers of adult pornography, escort agencies, prostitution unions (where they arelegal) and Internet sites containing graphic stories or images of adults engaged in sexualconduct.In a recent interview, the Executive Director of the Association of Sites AdvocatingChild Protection (ASACP; formerly Adult Sites against Child Pornography) stated thatshe did not believe there was a link between adult pornography and child pornography.Specifically, she states, “There are almost no data that could ever show that the adult [sex]industry was involved with underage children in [pornographic] movies and, thus, childpornography. With our hotline, for the first time, we actually have empirical data that showno involvement.” 26The perspective of ASACP is not equally shared. In Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs ofPornography in the Cyber Age, F.S. Lane articulates the use of young models in the adultpornography industry:The legal prohibition most likely to be crossed by an unwary pornographer is theone that bars the sale or distribution of images of children under the age of 18.Images of teens at or near their 18th birthday have proven to be highly popularand lucrative subject for online pornography businesses[…] Given the volumeof competition even within the relatively narrow category of teen sites… and thepotential economic rewards, there is certainly a temptation for some Websiteoperators to try and get around the age limit either by offering images of modelswho look younger than 18 or by offering images of under-18 models that aretaken from a supposedly “safe” source (e.g., nudist magazines). 2712|Private Sector Accountability in Combating the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children