Pornhub has continues its cynical trend of protesting age verification laws that would protect children by requiring pornography websites verify that users are 18+. Pornhub recently responded to Texas's age verification law by disabling its website in that state—as it has already done in Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. 

Pornhub’s temper tantrum over Texas’ law ultimately reveals an ugly truth: it will lose revenue if children cannot access pornography on its site. Pornhub depends on children having access to boost its profits.

NCOSE is very grateful for our many valued allies whose combined efforts led to the passing of the age verification law in Texas.

Sammy remembers nearly every detail of the night in April 2022 when she says two men raped her.

The Miami apartment, stark and empty, where it happened. The loud music as she screamed and told them to stop. The fear and the pain, the overwhelming sense of powerlessness.

Sammy, recalling the night in an interview, also remembers seeing a phone perched on a dresser and thinking: Am I being filmed?

Two months later, on June 30, an edited recording of Sammy’s alleged assault was posted on OnlyFans, a website where people can create porn and charge for it. The video was marketed by one of her alleged assailants as “train” sex, jargon for multiple men having sex with one woman, according to screenshots obtained by Reuters.

One of Sammy’s alleged rapists sold a video of the incident on OnlyFans. “Train” sex is jargon for multiple men having sex with one woman. 

“The full train video is here guys,” he said on OnlyFans. “Who wants it?”

📣ACTION: Demand the DOJ Investigate OnlyFans for Sex Trafficking!

EBay is teeming with thousands of AI-generated and photoshopped pornography of at least 40 celebrities including Margot Robbie, Selena Gomez and Jenna Ortega...

“It’s not just the sellers. Companies like eBay are also profiting from image-based sexual abuse,” said Lina Nealon, an executive for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation...

While there are no federal laws in place to protect victims of deepfake pornography, three other bills have also been introduced in Congress to address these concerns, Nealon said. Today, Congress held a hearing on how the rise in non-consensual pornographic deepfakes impacts women and children and what steps can be taken to reduce harm.

“We really need federal laws and we need them quickly because as often is the case, technology is moving at a more rapid pace than our legislators, and we're seeing this exponential increase with AI and with deepfake proliferation,” she told Forbes.

📣ACTION: Urge Congress to Pass Laws Addressing Deepfake Pornography and Other Image-Based Sexual Abuse!

This week on the Exodus Cry Podcast, Marcel Van der Watt dismantles the common arguments used to defend “sex work” as a safe and legitimate form of work. As a former criminal investigator with more than 20 years of experience in combating the intersecting criminal economies of organized crime, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation, Marcel speaks to the faulty arguments and “research” frequently held up by the pro-sex work movement.

Macrel is the Director of the Research Institute at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) in Washington, D.C. Marcel has consulted in and provided expert court testimony in several sex trafficking cases, briefed members of the US Congress on issues related to online criminality, and has trained multidisciplinary professionals from more than 30 countries.

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