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COVID-19, Pornography, and [Uncontested] Harms
COVID-19 increased consumption of online pornography, but each click, search, upload, and view enables the multifaceted proliferation of harm.
COVID-19 increased consumption of online pornography, but each click, search, upload, and view enables the multifaceted proliferation of harm.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s Online Annual Summit will feature over 100 speakers from July 20–24, 2021.
Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek are crumbling before our eyes as the world wakes up to their harmful practices.
A virtual summit gives you the freedom to participate on your own time, all from your phone or computer! Need more convincing?
Evidence Mounts Against Pornhub’s Exploitation Empire. Pornhub Sued by 34 Survivors While Canadian Parliament Urges Action to Hold Pornhub Accountable
Sharing findings from and NCOSE Research Institute commentary on Vera-Grey et al. in The British Journal of Criminology (2021).
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is calling attention to a new survey of more than 22,000 UK women which found 51% reported being “woken up to their male partner having sex with them or performing sex acts on them whilst they are asleep.”
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), has recognized Soma Sara, founder of Everyone’s Invited, in its monthly Dignity Defense Alert, for shedding light on the scope and impact of rape culture, with the ultimate goal of eradicating it.
We commend Soma Sara and the team at Everyone’s Invited for giving survivors a platform and for courageously confronting rape culture.
Sexual Violence as a Sexual Script in Mainstream Online Pornography
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), along with a group of 104 survivors and advocates from 13 countries, have sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai requesting that the company “improve its search engine policies to no longer promote access to sexual violence, incest, racist or other abusive pornography.”
NCOSE commends the Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr. for refusing to criminalize victims of prostitution by announcing that it wouldn’t prosecute individuals in prostitution and unlicensed illicit massage, and instead, would focus efforts on prosecuting the buyers of prostituted persons, as well as their traffickers/pimps.