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View the NCOSE 2019 Impact Report & Newsletter 2019 IMPACT REPORT ENDSEXUALEXPLOITATION.ORG Child Sexual Abuse Sexual Addictions & Male Sexual Pornography Compulsivity Exploitation Objectification Sex Trafficking Violence Child Sexual Abuse Images Against Prostitution (Child Pornography) Women Sexting Sexualization of Children 2019 IMPACT REPORT ENDSEXUALEXPLOITATION.ORG Together, We Are: 4 Forging Ahead: 2019 Highlights 12 8 Educating and Equipping the Public Changing Policies that Foster Sexual Exploitation 14 10 Exposing the Connections Leading the Movement for Human Dignity 20 Collaborating: How You Can Help 1 “NCOSE is the only organization of its kind. Weekly multiple successes brings healing and love to places where before there was only abuse. This organization pursues a non-shaming approach to changing the lives of people affected by pornography and all sexual exploitation.” — MICHAEL CROGHAN, NCOSE SUPPORTER Dear Friend of NCOSE, Do you feel it? The same urgency I have to stop the wave of sexual exploitation sweeping our nation? If there is a bottom to our culture’s ocean of sexual toxicity we’ve not found it yet. We can’t just stand Established 1962 by while our world sinks deeper and deeper into this septic abyss. We must engage with the culture in PATRICK A. TRUEMAN, J.D. | Board Member ways that inspire, bring hope, and produce meaningful change. President and CEO DAWN E. HAWKINS This is where the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) works. Every day, we work to Sr. Vice President & Executive Director create a world free from sexual abuse and exploitation. We devise strategies and campaigns to hold BENJAMIN W. BULL, J.D. policymakers and corporate executives accountable, spur them to action, and yield powerful results. Vice President & General Counsel LISA L. THOMPSON Vice President of Research and Policy This year NCOSE is especially proud of its achievements with Instagram, Snapchat, Netflix, and HALEY C. HALVERSON Comcast. Our dialogue with these corporate giants continues. Much progress has already been Vice President of Advocacy and Outreach achieved and they are still listening and improving! We’ve made your voices heard and they’re making changes. BOARD MEMBERS RON DEHAAS | Chairman Not resting on these achievements, NCOSE hosted the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Global Founder & CEO, Covenant Eyes Summit in July. Coupled with our second annual Day on the Hill, which unleashed an army of ROBERT L. CAHILL, JR. | Chairman Emeritus Former Managing Partner, Conklin Cahill & Co. advocates on Capitol Hill, the momentum we have is palpable. We’ve heard from attendees who DAN O’BRYANT, J.D. | Vice Chairman returned to their communities energized and inspired to continue confronting sexual abuse and Former Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International exploitation issues. Affairs, Harvard University RHONDA GRAFF | Secretary NCOSE’s Day on the Hill set the stage for the role out of the #FixAppRatings campaign. In Former Aerospace Program Manager/industrial Engineer partnership with key allies, NCOSE worked with members of Congress to instigate a Senate hearing. KEN SUKHIA, J.D. | Treasurer Trial and Appellate Lawyer, Sukhia Law Group, PLC Before a packed hearing room, social media giants were taken to task for their failure to protect HADLEY ARKES, PH.D. children from exposure to explicit and harmful content on Internet platforms. As we move into 2020, Ney Professor of Jurisprudence, Emeritus, NCOSE will keep the pressure on Congress and Big Tech. Amherst College BETH COONS What’s more, the NCOSE Law Center is ramping up major new initiatives. In January we hired Chairman, Farnsworth Companies Benjamin Bull, a man with an inspiring career and prestigious legacy in the fight against obscenity. PASTOR JAY DENNIS President, Join One Million Men Ben and our expanding legal team are hard at work on new model laws and laying the ground work JOHN FOUBERT, PH.D. to defend FOSTA-SESTA—critical legislation curbing online sex trafficking that NCOSE helped Dean, College of Education, Union University pass—in federal court. ROBERT GEORGE, PH.D. McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University Yes, the tasks before us are daunting and the challenges formidable. But, as the saying goes, “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” As DONALD L HILTON, M.D. Neurosurgeon, University of Texas - San Antonio disheartening as the challenges appear, this work is meaningful and successes swell our collective DONNA M HUGHES, PH.D. hearts with endurance. Professor & Carlson Endowed Chair, University of Rhode Island Thank you for making the journey with us—we couldn’t do this work without you. Together we will MARY ANNE LAYDEN, PH.D. Director, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, press on and rise up on the palisades of promise and hope. University of Pennsylvania MOST REVEREND PAUL S. LOVERDE On behalf of a world free from sexual abuse and exploitation… Bishop, Dioceses of Arlington, VA, Retired KINDSEY PENTECOST Sincerely, President, ItWorks! International MARGARET RUCKS Managing Director, Rucks Family Foundation OLGA SAMANIEGO National Regent, Catholic Daughters of the Americas Patrick A. Trueman LINNEA W SMITH, M.D. President & CEO Retired, Psychiatrist National Center on Sexual Exploitation MELEA STEPHENS, L.P.C., M.M.F.T. Marriage and Family Therapist 440 First Street NW, Suite 840, Washington, DC 20001 • Office: 202.393.7245 Fax: 202.393.1717 • endsexualexploitation.org • [email protected] ncose exposes the seamless connection between all forms of sexual exploitation. 3 2019 Victories & Highlights FROM THE Instagram Takes Step Forward Against Pornography, Sex Trafficking, & Grooming for Abuse 72% of America’s teens are on this social media platform and many of them experience sexual harassment, pornography exposure abuse, and solicitations for sex from strangers with little help from Insta- gram—until now. We met with and have had ongoing dialogue with Instagram regarding concerns about grooming for sexual abuse, sex trafficking, child sexual abuse images (i.e. child pornography), and more on their platform. They have promised continued collabora- tion on solutions for digital safety and wellbeing of their young users. 2019 Coalition to NCOSE has also leveraged Instagram as a means for educating the End Sexual Exploitation public on the dangers of sexual exploitation to the tune of over 85,000 Preparing Multiple Lawsuits Impressions with Instagram users directly on the platform itself. Global Summit Against the Kingpins of The 2019 CESE Summit brought Sexual Exploitation together 600 leaders in-person Netflix Finally Improves NCOSE launched a project to match from 15 countries, with more Content Controls for victims of sexual abuse with plaintiffs than 37,000 joining online, for the Parents, Still Needs to lawyers for the purpose of filing litigation annual meeting of the movement against the sexual exploitation industry, to end sexual exploitation. During Improve Content specifically focused on bringing justice the Day on the Hill, we reached After 10,397 emails were sent to Netflix by grassroots supporters for those deeply hurt by pornography, every single member of Con- through NCOSE’s campaign to demand that Netflix institute better sex trafficking, and child sexual abuse. gress with a message about key parental controls and content warnings on their platform with nearly Our goal is to cripple the pro-exploita- policy improvements to defend 150 million subscribers, they took a step forward! Parental controls tion industry and bring it to its knees, human dignity. Join us next year: have improved so that 4-digit pin codes used to block certain shows much like what happened with Big EndExploitationSummit.com or ratings remain consistent across Profiles, thereby closing a loophole Tobacco. As a part of our continuing where children could accidentally access sexually graphic content. efforts to educate the public, the video Further, there are now warnings at the beginning of every show about underscoring the pressing need for our Critical Legislation exactly what kind of content will be present. On the heels of this im- increased Law Center efforts gained to Stop Child Sex portant victory, our campaign against this media giant continues as 9 traction on social media where it was Trafficking out of 10 Netflix Originals contain full nudity or graphic sex scenes. seen nearly 30,000 times. Currently, men who buy a child for sex in 20 states can get away with it by simply saying they didn’t Shedding Light on Child-on-child Harmful Sexual Behavior know the child was underage. One-third of child sexual abuse reports list another child as the abuser, but we NCOSE’s Law Center has drafted know the number of cases of child-on-child sexual abuse is much bigger than that. model state legislation to hold In March, NCOSE hosted a packed national symposium at The Catholic University sex buyers accountable when of America in Washington, D.C.. NCOSE is the only organization bringing together they purchase trafficked children hundreds of key stakeholders—from social workers, educators, government offi- for sex so that loopholes can be cials, law enforcement, psychologists, to other child safety experts—in order to closed and perpetrators of sexual better unify efforts addressing this complex issue. These efforts are increasingly exploitation can be held account- crucial as pornography continues to influence children’s behavior at even younger able for their crimes. ages as the average age of pornography exposure
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