When Prostasia Foundation first published my interview with researcher Allyn Walker about their book A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of...
Tag: CSA prevention
“That stigma itself can lead to harm,” an interview with researcher and author Allyn Walker
Allyn Walker is an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Sociology and criminal justice. Their research focuses on institutional harms,...
From the Newsletter: Blowing the Whistle on ECPAT
Editor’s Note: Prostasia is reprinting useful material from our newsletter for blog readers. This essay first ran in the November 2020 newsletter. To keep up to date...
A conversation about the social media attacks on Prostasia
Early in September Prostasia was the center of a social media firestorm on Twitter. The attacks started with opponents of sex workers, but soon spread across the political...
Retraumatization and cultural context
Twenty years ago, the Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study revolutionized our understanding of trauma’s impact on survivors of abuse. Today, more...
From the Newsletter: Prostasia’s Biggest Success
Editor’s Note: Prostasia is reprinting useful material from our newsletter for blog readers. This article first ran in September 2021. To keep up to date on...
From the Newsletter: HBO’s Euphoria
Editor’s Note: Prostasia is reprinting useful material from our newsletter for blog readers. This review first ran in November 2020. To keep up to date on...
CSA prevention and moral panic
A decades-long moral panic around child sexual abuse has wreaked untold damage on children, families, and marginalized communities. With the ascendence of QAnon it has reached fever pitch—and...
Why pastors don’t ask for help
A recent groundbreaking six-part article in the Houston Chronicle exposed the dark secret of a culture in many Southern Baptist churches—that of staff and volunteers who...
We have to protect children — even the ones you hate
Over the last four decades or so—the course of my life—we have seen an ever-growing awareness of the effects of childhood abuse and, in particular, the effects of...