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"And, as before, today’s youth aren’t handing over their rights. Tens of thousands of you have vocally opposed flawed censorship bills like KOSA." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/young-people-may-be-biggest-target-online-censorship-and-surveillance-and

"This can’t happen without involving sex workers. Their voices and experiences need to be central to any initiative in forming an educational and safety framework." https://prostasia.org/blog/defining-and-preventing-trafficking/

"The proposed EU ‘Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse‘ (2022) (CSA Regulation, or CSAR) has raised concerns that it is incompatible with EU fundamental rights and case law" https://edri.org/our-work/most-criticised-eu-law-of-all-time/

"In editorials that ran in his local Shreveport, Louisiana, paper, The Times, Johnson called homosexuality a 'inherently unnatural' and 'dangerous lifestyle' that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy 'the entire democratic system.'" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html

"If there are educational, safety, and regulatory systems in place to ensure the safety of consensual sex workers, it becomes much easier for someone to find an ethical place to purchase sexual services that don’t involve exploitation." https://prostasia.org/blog/defining-and-preventing-trafficking/

"When people are educated about what positive sexual behavior, sexuality, and human relationships look like, it’s easier to prevent harmful exploitative behaviors like sex trafficking." https://prostasia.org/blog/defining-and-preventing-trafficking/

"many of these initiatives target both consensual sex work, consensual work, and exploitative situations rather than addressing the core inequities that fuel the exploitation." https://prostasia.org/blog/defining-and-preventing-trafficking/

"According to a United Nations report, 79% of human trafficking is sexual exploitation, mostly of women and girls. It’s here where the story gets murky." https://prostasia.org/blog/defining-and-preventing-trafficking/

For those of you new to the newsletter - the first publication from our collaboration with SUNY Oswego and Nottingham-Trent University on the effects of fantasy and fictional sexual outlet use among MAPs is now live!" https://prostasia.org/newsletter/?email_id=132

Conservative groups petition a U.S. appeals court to redefine pornography as unprotected by the First Amendment. https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/far-right-groups-filed-amicus-brief-in-tx-age-verification-case-922449.html

"I'm also excited to announce that we are bringing back the Prostasia Conversations series, so you can expect to see Prostasia Conversations returning to Youtube and your favorite podcast subscription service before year's end." https://prostasia.org/newsletter/?email_id=132

The premise here is simple: we must learn how to talk about child sexual abuse if we want to be successful in preventing it." https://gtenbergen.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/this-one-is-for-the-naysayers/

"Time and time again, we’ve seen that sex negativity can lead to harmful stigma, rampant misinformation, and policies that infringe on human rights while failing to protect children." https://prostasia.org/newsletter/?email_id=132

“Whether it is bomb threats against children’s hospitals and libraries, a store owner being killed for her pride flag, or the now standard rhetoric that anyone who supports LGBTQ+ youth is a ‘groomer,’ it has to stop.” https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/10/rightwing-turning-point-usa-activists-injure-queer-professor-who-they-accused-of-grooming-children/

"For too long, outdated concepts like “stranger danger” have masked the reality that anyone can be an abuser. Fixing these misconceptions requires open dialogue about why abuse happens and how to prevent it..." https://prostasia.org/newsletter/?email_id=132

“This horrific act of hate has no place in America, and stands against our fundamental values: freedom from fear for how we pray, what we believe, and who we are.” https://apnews.com/article/muslim-boy-killed-chicago-landlord-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e

"Rather than needing to reconcile the two, our sex-positive approach is what empowers us to set aside assumptions and focus on the facts of what it takes to keep kids safe." https://prostasia.org/newsletter/?email_id=132

"In a sex-negative society, children are sheltered from all mentions of sex, leaving them unprepared to recognize and report an abusive situation, should they encounter one. Sex positivity recognizes that information about sex is not inherently dangerous..."

"The pretext of online safety, abuse reduction, or any of the other concerns raised by policymakers simply cannot justify weakening encryption through the policy proposals that have begun to crop up in Five Eyes nations." https://techpolicy.press/five-eyes-campaign-against-encryption-threatens-democracy/

"There is no dispute that more must be done to keep children safe online. But mass surveillance is not, and will never be, a viable solution, and it’s time for the European Union and other governments to drop the pretense that it ever will be." https://jere.my/why-the-eu-will-lose-its-battle-for-chat-control/

Conservatives claim book bans are not targeted at LGBTQ expression. So why was one library using a search for the word "gay" to identify books containing "inappropriate" content?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/us/alabama-library-marie-louise-gay-reaj/index.html