The infamous story of Backpage.com’s exploitation and trafficking of women and children is fairly well known at this point.
What is little known, however, is the raging battle being waged in the courts to prevent Backpage’s erstwhile former owners from absconding with millions of dollars in illegal profits made from their now-shuttered sex business. The former owners have been caught red-handed attempting to steal away their ill-gotten profits to prevent the victims from ever recovering a penny’s worth of compensation.
Christen Price, legal counsel for the NCOSE Law Center, powerfully deconstructs arguments that "feminist porn" advocates have attempted to use to defend the violence and exploitation of pornography.
Alvin Winford has over 18 years of experience working on anti-exploitation efforts in Africa and is a National Center on Sexual Exploitation 2020 International Fellow. Here, he explores how pornography has negatively impacted the continent and opportunities for combating its destructive influence.
In the vein of similar efforts from members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, U.S.-based bishops for the Catholic Church have sent a letter to the United States Attorney General, William Barr, and the Department of Justice which calls on them to resume obscenity law enforcement.
