Defending Dignity Weekly Newsletter

Highlights: Protecting kids online during quarantine, Orlando Bloom, and more!

The Pornography Industry's Aggressive Marketing Tactics, Explained

The pornography industry has been trying to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic for its own profit.

Pornography companies have long used the windfall from their widely-trafficked material to test creative and bleeding-edge marketing tactics that push their material to the forefront of the social consciousness by attracting mainstream media coverage. Unfortunately, most people aren’t familiar with just how savvy and aggressive the most popular pornography companies are when it comes to getting attention, drawing in new users, and normalizing their exploitative material.

Five things you can do to ensure your children are safe online during quarantine

Now more than ever, kids and teens will be spending extra time online via phones, tablets, laptops, and video games. It’s imperative in this time of increased online activity that parents are prepared to ensure their children are safe from the predatory dangers of the Internet.

To help prepare parents, we’ve compiled a list of five things parents can do to help keep their children safe from online sexual exploitation during this extended period of isolation.

Orlando Bloom: Porn is "just so destructive."

We can add another voice to Team Science after actor Orlando Bloom spoke out strongly about the harms of pornography during an in-depth interview with The Sunday Times.

Kids online more thanks to COVID-19? Here are five Internet filtering services for families.

Setting up parental controls, limiting screen time, and monitoring your child’s Internet use are all great ways to make sure your child is safe online. But it is also important to have the extra layer of security that Internet filtering services, which automatically block and filter unwanted sites and ads, can provide.

With gratitude,

Dawn Hawkins

Sr. Vice President and Executive Director

National Center on Sexual Exploitation

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