Pornography: a public health crisis! How pornography fuels sex trafficking, child exploitation, and sexual violende. Collection of papers from Symposium held at the U.S. Capitol on July 14, 2015
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . 4
Dawn Hawkins, Vice President and Executive Director, National Center on Sexual Exploitation SYMPOSIUM PAPERS Today’s Pornography and the Crisis of Violence Against Women and Children. . . 5
Gail Dines, PhD, Founder and President, Culture Reframed Why Pornography is a Public Health Issue. . . 11
Cordelia Anderson, MA, Founder, Sensibilities Prevention Services Pornography and the Brain: Public Health Considerations. . . 21
Don Hilton, MD, Neurosurgeon, University of Texas Pornography: Sex Education for the Developing Brain. . . 26
Sharon Cooper, MD, FAAP, CEO, Development and Forensic Pediatrics Pornography, Prostitution, and Trafficking: Making the Connections. . . 30
Melissa Farley, PhD, Executive Director, Prostitution Research & Education Sexual Obesity: Research on a Public Health Crisis. . . 34
Mary Anne Layden, PhD, Director, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania Sexual Exploitation: Connecting the Dots in Real Life . . . 43
Ed Smart, activist and father of kidnap victim, Elizabeth Smart; Director of Prevention and Rehabilitation, Operation Underground Railroad Why is Finding a Solution So Difficult?. . . 47
Ernie Allen, Former President and CEO, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children SUMMARIES OF KEY RESEARCH ON PORNOGRAPHY Impact on the Brain . . . 51
Connections to Violence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Effect on Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Impact on the Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Family & Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Sex Trafficking & Prostitution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
PERSONAL STORIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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