Lloyd's a punter whether he uses a green screen or not. They all deserve the rope. I've known enough prostitution survivors personally to have seen the absolute horrors that industry, and the men who patronise it, inflicts on its victims. And those are the lucky ones who got out and are still alive.
One of the big reasons my family is so emotionally reticent is that my grandmother escaped trafficking as a "comfort woman" in Semarang, her friends didn't. She was tortured in a forced labour camp for years, and she still considered herself lucky to be there instead of the brothels, because they were far, far worse. All the public whitewashing of prostitution and claims of "happy hookers" in the last few decades triggered her trauma because it sounded just like the fascist IJA. And so did Lloyd in his livestream, making excuses for what amounts to serial rape. By his own admission, he repeatedly paid to do whatever he liked to, at worst, trafficking victims, and at best, people who only "consented" because they needed the money. It's all rape, it's just different kinds/severities.
I had been a fan and supporter of Lloyd in the first place because he positioned himself as fighting sexual abuse. If he had any sense of responsibility, ethics, or empathy towards his victims, he'd do the right thing and turn himself in to the police, or he'd find some other way to make certain he couldn't rape trafficking victims ever again. I mentioned in my voicemail that my own father died when I was very young, but he was a good man; it traumatised me, but that grief is bearable. I feel terribly sorry for Lloyd's daughters having a living serial rapist for a father.
