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Walmart’s Corporate Responsibility: Fighting Female Objectification in the #MeToo Era
It’s no secret. We live in a society drenched with sexually objectifying images of women. What may be less obvious is just how harmful these images are to the dignity and treatment of women and girls by men. Objectifying images teach men that women are objects for ownership, rather than complete persons worthy of moral […]
2018 Dirty Dozen: The Watch List – Cosmopolitan Magazine
Is the online sex trafficking era about to meet the ‘delete’ key?
This article originally appeared on FoxNews.com. Across the web, online administrators are hitting “delete” on sex ads. Several websites built solely around prostitution and sex trafficking, such as Cityvibe, have begun going dark, and mainstream websites like Craigslist and Reddit are removing their “Hookers” and “Personals” sections which acted as thin veneers for sex trafficking […]
2018 Dirty Dozen: Backpage.com
Power of FOSTA-SESTA Felt within 48 Hours of Senate Passage: Websites Move Swiftly to Shutter Prostitution Ads
Within 48 hours of the U.S. Senate’s passage of legislation combating online sex trafficking, several websites have shuttered their prostitution ads. The historic legislation passed the Senate in a landslide 97-2 vote on Wednesday. H.R. 1865 was a legislative package that combined the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), sponsored by Rep. Ann Wagner, with […]
Issue: Prostitution – Bright Light on the Red Light
Lisa Thompson Joins EWTN to Discuss FOSTA-SESTA Victory
Our Vice President of Advocacy and Outreach Lisa L. Thompson joined EWTN News Nightly to discuss the biggest victory in the fight against online sex trafficking in decades, the Senate’s passage of FOSTA-SESTA. This legislation amends the Communications Decency Act to allow victims of online sex trafficking to hold the websites that facilitated their abuse accountable! […]
2018 Dirty Dozen: Backpage.com
Sports Illustrated Bashes Royals GM Dayton Moore for Anti-Porn Stance
You may have read about Kansas City Royals General Manager Dayton Moore taking bold, principled, countercultural action to educate his team on the harms of pornography. As I noted in a Townhall.com column today, this decision did not occur in a vacuum. According to Porn Hub’s own data, the world watched 4.6 billion hours of pornography in […]
Issue: Objectification
Craigslist and Reddit finally get out of the Sex Trade thanks to FOSTA-SESTA
24 hours after the United States Congress passed a landmark piece of legislation to combat online sex trafficking, with near-unanimous bipartisan support, the most significant legislative action in decades, major prostitution websites are going dark. They are doing this on their own! Of importance to me, includes a drastic change in policy by Reddit. Reddit […]
2018 Dirty Dozen: Backpage.com
Sports Illustrated, the Porn Apologists?
This article originally appeared on Townhall.com. Sports Illustrated has certainly not earned itself a reputation as defenders of women’s dignity, but in one of their latest articles, they’ve positioned themselves as overt porn apologists and defenders. The article was headlined: “Royals GM Dayton Moore Makes Bizarre and Troubling Choice to Host Anti-Porn Activists.” This defensive article […]
Issue: Objectification
First Waver: Barbara Hattemer
One woman was able to stop a major pornographer in his tracks. Barbara Hattemer‘s story shows how practical, community-based efforts to defend dignity can produce inspiring results. Barbara founded a Florida chapter of Morality In Media (NCOSE’s previous name) in Naples during the early 1980s. She worked to make sure a strict city ordinance was […]
It’s Our Turn
First Waver: Dr. James Dobson
The man who declared that, “Pornography is a winnable war.” For decades, James Dobson, PhD, the founder of Focus on the Family, has been a leading, many would say, “the leading,” advocate for the family in America. Presciently, he saw the influence that pornography had on family life and warned more than three decades ago […]
It’s Our Turn
Senate Listens to Survivors of Sex Trafficking, Passes FOSTA-SESTA
The Senate today passed FOSTA-SESTA by a vote of 97-2. The legislative package included H.R. 1865 the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), sponsored by Rep. Ann Wagner, and an amendment sponsored by Rep. Mimi Walters which incorporated the vital reforms contained in S. 1693 the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), sponsored by […]
2018 Dirty Dozen: Backpage.com
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