In a blog post yesterday in which Tumblr announced that it would ban adult content from the site come December 17, it took pains to point out "something that should not be confused with today’s...
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How dolls could help prevent child sexual abuse
Editor's note: This article has been contributed under a pen name by one of the respondents to Prostasia Foundation's background research into sex dolls and child sexual abuse prevention. The...
Should we Kik anonymous messaging to the curb?
Kik is a messaging app launched by Canadian company Kik Interactive in 2010. It is free of monetary cost to users, but is not a basement operation; Kik Interactive has received over $120 million...
Defending Lolita from censorship
Lolita was never officially banned in the United States, although it was banned in France where it was first published in 1955, and in several other countries. Yet...
Tumblr is censoring prevention messages and amplifying harmful ones
I am a medical professional and researcher who specializes in the treatment of minor-attracted people such as pedophiles and hebephiles, whom we sometimes collectively call MAPs. Every day, a...
The intersection of civil rights and child protection
Prostasia is a child protection organization that seeks to harmonize the tension that is often perceived between effective public policy and constitutional rights. When informed by evidence, the...
FOSTA and the alt-right are censoring speech about child protection
The proponents of the anti-trafficking law FOSTA have claimed (falsely) that since passage of the law there has been a 90% fall in the number of sex advertisements published online. But whatever...
Helping young adolescents to combat sexual grooming
From the way that it is often described, as a slow, methodical, and intentional process, the sexual grooming of children often sounds like some kind of black magic. By following a...
Child protection and the limits of censorship
It’s unusual for a civil liberties organization — which Prostasia is — to be calling for censorship. But we are also, and first and...
How the politics of child protection gives us laws that harm children
As a child, I remember how terrified I was by a rerun of the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which the lead character attempts to...