Category: Pornography

Rachel Robison, a pornography exposure abuse survivor, joined several supporters for a briefing last week held at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation headquarters, saying that if porn sites had been required to verify the ages of their users, she may have been saved from a decade-plus pornography addiction.

Prostitution is banned in most Western countries, but the laws are outdated for this digital age. As porn addictions are growing in regularity, pornographic content is evolving to give the addicts the dopamine they crave.

Taylor Muthoka was first exposed to pornography at the age of 7. A friend showed it to her online, and all the children had to do to access the website was check a box saying they were 18. Little did she know that moment would lead to a 10-year addiction.

If someone is forced, manipulated into, or threatened into performing any sex act in exchange for money, safety, or to evade punishment, this is trafficking. And it happens regularly in the porn industry.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton—the porn industry’s challenge to H.B. 1181, Texas’s age-verification law. This law will require age verification to access pornography, something that was denied in 2004 in the case of Ashcroft v. American Civil LIberties Union.

While the effects of porn are negative, struggling with it doesn’t automatically make a person “bad.” Recovery is a journey and a process. Different stages of the recovery process may require different focuses and strategies. The basic principles remain the same, but as the person grows and progresses, they should adapt their plans and actions accordingly.

A letter is circulating among conservative leaders in Washington DC asking President Trump and the U.S. Congress to oppose a controversial new UN treaty that allows countries to de-criminalize AI-generated child pornography and also sexting by minors. This “eviscerates the strict standard to prosecute child pornography” currently in international law, “a standard based on over twenty years of federal and state law practice promoted internationally by the U.S. government,” the letter explains. The new treaty adopted by the General Assembly last month is open for signatures and will come into force if at least forty countries ratify it.

A 33-year-old man possessing thousands of images and videos of child sex abuse, including infants and toddlers, was sentenced to prison time as well as supervised release and restitution.

The issue of sex trafficking is not a myth, but there are myths about sex trafficking. If you want to get involved in helping to rescue victims, start with factual information supported by anti-trafficking experts and survivor-led organizations.