Traditionally, child protection law and policy has been the domain of sexually conservative organizations with close ties to organized religion. In researching a recent...
Category: CSA prevention
Applying child development principles to online child protection
The “Boogie Man” concept is a useful tool for deterring children from doing things they aren’t supposed to do or to teach them to fear wrongdoing. Negative...
How minor-attracted persons can obtain help not to offend
A relevant question for today’s audience is: what can we do to prevent child sexual abuse (CSA), including the consumption of child sexual exploitation material (CSEM)?...
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...
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...
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 sexual abuse prevention isn’t a soft option
Wouldn’t it be great if we could eliminate child sexual abuse (CSA) with a pill? But it’s a more complicated prospect than it seems. Who...