Thursday, May 15, before the Summit, Morality in Media held a press conference at the National Press Club with a few of the speakers from the Summit. As a result, there are dozens of news articles running all over the world about the harms of pornography. They all talked about the Summit and pornography as the public health crisis that it is.
Speakers included:
- Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director of Morality in Media and Porn Harms
- Mary Anne Layden, PhD., Director of Education at the Center for Cognitive Therapy & Director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania
- Donald Hilton, M.D., neurosurgeon & clinical associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center
- Gail Dines, PhD., leading feminist scholar, author & founder of Stop Porn Culture
- Donny Pauling, former porn producer
- Clay Olsen, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Fight the New Drug
For more photos of the press conference, go to our Facebook page here.
Here are some of the international news outlets that covered this event and the Summit:
- Australia – Mass consumption of online porn is causing a ‘public health crisis’
- China – Pornography poses serious threat to public health, panel of activists says
- Croatia – AMERIKANCI OVISNI O PORNOGRAFIJI ‘Stanje je toliko ozbiljno da bi trebali proglasiti krizu javnog zdravstva’
- France – LE PORNO, « UNE CRISE DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE » AUX ETATS-UNIS
- Ireland – Pandemic of porn damaging young teenagers
- Japan – Treat porn ‘epidemic’ in U.S. as public health crisis, activists urge
- Kuwait – Porn ‘a public health crisis’
- Lebanon – La pornographie, une “crise de santé publique”?
- Luxembourg – La pornographie, une «crise de santé publique»
- Malaysia – Porn In US ‘A Public Health Crisis’
- Pakistan – Porn in US ‘a public health crisis’
- Philippines – Porn in US ‘a public health crisis’
- Portugal – Pornografia nos EUA deve ser tratada como crise de saúde pública, alertam especialistas
- Quebec – La porno aux États-Unis, une «crise de santé publique»
- Romania – Pornografia în SUA, ”criză de sănătate publică”
- Russia – Anti-Porn Activists Highlight How Pornography Destroys Women and Families
- Senegal – LE PORNO, « UNE CRISE DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE » AUX ETATS-UNIS
- South Africa – ‘Porn is public health issue’
- Switzerland – La pornographie, une «crise de santé publique» aux USA
- Taipei – Kick the habit
- UK – Pornography should be treated like drink driving or teenage smoking, experts argue as they it is so widespread in U.S., it is a MAJOR health crisis
- UK – Hardcore Porn is a Major Hazard to Public Health – US Neuroscientist
- UK – Torrent of porn engulfing US is public health crisis
- Zurich – La pornographie, une «crise de santé publique»
