How the Companies We Love Profit from Porn Industry Abuses

It can take less than 11 seconds for a 9-year-old child to access hard-core porn on the internet without a credit card and without proof of age.

This episode shines an olympic-sized spotlight on the abuses that porn has on individuals watching porn, taking part in it as a performer, and on children being exploited by it. And, what was surprising to me as the interviewer was to learn about the dirty tactics that companies that we love use to profit from sexual exploitation and the porn industry.

My guest for this episode is Haley McNamara, the Director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation (INCOSE) in the UK, and a Vice President at the U.S. based National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). She leads international efforts and joint campaigns to improve policies and education among global governing bodies, citizenry, and corporations regarding the full web of sexual exploitation issues. Her advocacy work has contributed to policy improvements in social media, online advertising, retail, and hotel industries. She has advocated against sexual exploitation to the United Nations, led international coalition campaigns, and presented to many government officials including Danish, Croatian, Colombian and Rwandan.

Haley regularly speaks and writes on topics including child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, prostitution, sexual objectification, the exploitation of males, and more. She has appeared on, or been quoted in, several outlets; the shortlist of which is the New York Times, NBC’s The Today Show, and BBC News. She has also written op-eds for another impressive list of outlets including the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, FoxNews.com, Washington Examiner. 

But, her reach doesn’t end there; she has also contributed to a digital middle school curriculum regarding the links between sex trafficking and pornography as well as the public health impacts of sex trafficking.

If you want to learn about the impacts of porn addiction on relationships you can listen to episode 4 and 7 of this podcast to hear personal stories—one of which is my own.

You can access the DIRTY DOZEN that NCOSE puts out annually here.

Learn how you can TAKE ACTION with NCOSE here.

Instagram: @endexploitation

Facebook: Center on Sexual Exploitation

RESOURCES:

Betrayal Trauma Recovery, “Is Pornography a Feminist Issue“

Gail Dines, “Growing Up in a Pornified Culture“

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