Dear Friend,

A family friend of mine has a son, we’ll call him John.

John was an A+ student, he loved playing baseball with his younger brother, and he had a good relationship with his parents who did everything they could to raise him well and instill him with the right values.

John was 11 years old when he was exposed to pornography.

He was first exposed to pornography because of social media. John’s parents didn’t let him have social media, but he had a friend with the most popular apps for young tweens and teens, and one day on the school bus with an accidental click both were exposed to sexually violent, graphic content. 

Tragically, it led John to almost a decade of struggling with pornography addiction, and its consequences on his neurological development, mental health, and his ability to maintain healthy relationships. 

John’s parents had done everything they could to keep him safe online.

But as soon as John entered into the digital space, corporations with policies bent towards profits instead of online safety made their damaging impact.

An exceedingly generous couple has seen the victories from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s work to change policies that exploit, equip the public, and lead the movement of advocates working on these issues. In fact, this couple believes in the importance of the cause so much that they’ve offered a $3,000,000.00 matching grant to us! 

That means that any donation you give today will be automatically doubled in value!

This momentum is thrilling, and if we are able to match the $3 milllion within the next year, then it will have a profound and direct impact on boys like John.

This year alone, we have had tremendous progress in our efforts to push back against the social toxin of pornography. There is no other national organization with a track record like ours for getting results in the culture war about pornography.

Thanks to your support, 15 states have now passed our resolutions on the public health harms of pornography. The NCOSE-authored resolution declaring pornography to be a public health crisis has passed nearly unanimously in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia. As more efforts are underway to do the same in other states, NCOSE’s Law Center has drafted more model legislation to help to build on this momentum to combat pornography!

Imagine how different John’s life would have been if he had friends and family who recognized that pornography has public health impacts? It could have given him quicker access to therapy and recovery programs to break his addiction, and to manage its damages to his relationships.

We need your help to expand on this progress! Through your matched gift we will be able to significantly increase the number of states we can add to this list. We are working in half a dozen MORE states that are considering declaring pornography a public health crisis—we need your support to print and distribute research booklets, to travel to testify at hearings, to push the research into the mainstream media and more. We need your help to change minds, policies, and our culture on the question of pornography.

I want to ask you again, how much is a childhood free from pornography and sexual exploitation worth to you?

With a match of $3 million on the line, I will be bold and ask you to consider doubling your typical year-end gift amount to NCOSE. When we learned about this matching opportunity we shared it with some of our Board of Directors and a few close friends and organizations who have generously supported us in the past. This group of principled individuals was so inspired by this opportunity to move the needle in a significant way they have already made commitments totaling more than $300,000!

We need your help to ensure that we raise the remaining $2.7 million to ensure this match has the greatest possible impact. Please consider increasing your contribution to NCOSE by double, or at least consider increasing it by some amount. 

Every dollar will be doubled in its value to NCOSE. 

Every dollar will get us closer to the $3 million match. 

And every dollar provides prevention and hope to children like John.