Prostasia Foundation has closed its doors, but its values and work live on. 🌱 Child protection grounded in dignity, prevention, and human rights continues through many allies and projects. Read more about our legacy and what comes next: https://prostasia.org/?na=archive&email_id=136

Victims and survivors agree: DON’T use the word “pedophile” to refer to a perpetrator of child sexual abuse. https://nationalcentre.org.au/resource/child-sexual-abuse-language-guide/

“As we have long known, the sexual abuse of children is not restricted to a few highly prolific, dangerous people who persist in hurting others. Rather, there are enough people with sexual thoughts about children to consider it a public health issue.” safersociety.org/what-should-...

"The Prostasia Foundation is one such group, campaigning to reduce stigma and help MAPs have law-abiding lives. They argue that efforts to combat child sexual abuse are ‘driven by emotion rather than evidence’, which they believe undermines effective prevention." metro.co.uk/2025/08/09/d...

A chunk of silicon is neither a child nor can it be abused. Going after literal chunks of silicon, takes away resources that could be used to help ACTUAL real living & breathing abused children.

⚠️ Law enforcement is wasting our tax dollars going after adults using dating/hookup apps to meet up with other adults. Stay safe out there! www.mtracey.net/p/was-an-isr...

"He highlighted his case to journalists, stating that appeals are 'largely ignored', business accounts were being affected, and AI was 'labelling ordinary people as criminal abusers'."

We need science-based, effective measures to support minor attracted people and other people at risk of CSA. Religion will not save us.

The current reactive system meant to protect children is clearly failing. We need proactive supports. CSA is as old as human history, and the way we've always done thing is still not working.

We need to stop infantilizing adults. Treating 20-somethings like children distracts from real child protection—and insults both groups.

At least some good news. Strong abortion laws help keep women, trans men, and children safe.

prostasia.substack.com/p/you-read-a... Five in every hundred people have attractions they didn't choose — and never act on. One of them just told the world. This piece is for everyone still reeling.

"Since 2020, Congress has allocated annual dedicated research funding in a bipartisan effort to better understand and prevent child sexual abuse. We strongly urge our national leaders to preserve federal funding for child sexual abuse prevention research."

Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid. I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.

Another excellent story from Maine Monitor illustrates urgent need for a law requiring #childwelfare judges to balance any alleged harm in the home against the harm of #fostercare. It should be easy for anyone to see where the balance should have been struck here. www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-m...

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

[picks up drum] MASS INCARCERATION IS A QUEER AND TRANS ISSUE, AND ABOLITION IS INEXTRICABLE FROM LGBTQ+ LIBERATION

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

“[YouTube] does not appear to be taking action to address this predictable tactic for keeping Tate’s misogynistic messaging in the limelight and in the feeds of 13-year-old kids.” Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @yahoonews.com on our latest findings 👇

Florida police used ICE to arrest nearly 100 sex workers, boasting about the number of immigrants caught. The "human trafficking sting" turned up no actual human trafficking, but in a perverse twist, ICE can now abduct and traffick said "victims" to who knows where, for who knows what.

Also not maybe a coincidence, that Missouri's AG also is went after Target's Pride displays using child protection laws. Both the age-verification law and the Target attack use the same "harmful to minors" three-prong standard. This is great firewall stuff.

"What is happening, she says, is something remarkably akin to the white slavery panic at the turn of the 20th century, with the authorities once again 'stoking these middle-class fears that a savage is coming to take your kid.'" reason.com/2025/05/13/h... @reason.com #MoralPanic #Trafficking

An update on my reporting from March: RAINN has taken a step further and banned resources for trans people and immigrants. Many had defended RAINN, saying they would still serve trans people. Clearly that was wrong. NYTimes did the recent reporting, but did not cite me.

KOSA is being reintroduced today. It's always been a dangerous censorship bill. But in this environment, with Trump weaponizing every aspect of the Federal government to suppress speech he doesn't like, KOSA is a catastrophic attack on human rights. We have to stop it. StopKOSA.com

"Of the 199 words recently restricted or discouraged under the Trump administration as too 'woke' for the federal government, more than 50 are explicitly tied to sex, gender, identity, bodily autonomy, reproduction, and the sexual body." visiblemagazine.com/to-prevent-c... #FreeSpeech #ChildSafety

"But the FBI’s elevation of these crimes to the status of a national security threat to America (that they claim could 'bring down society') and even civilization is a panic characteristic of the QAnon movement"

The latest in censorship idiocy. Alabama advanced a bill that requires a minor's phone to block all "obscene" content But most "porn" is not legally "obscene" "Obscenity" is a narrow category of speech that is *already* illegal to distribute — even to adults The bill does nothing. What's worse...

"Mental health providers can face harsh backlash from the public, the media, and politicians for naming MAPs as a client population, speaking about them in humanizing ways, and focusing on their needs rather than portraying them solely as societal risks." www.b4uact.org/wp-content/u...

"My theory is that we can reduce pedophilic behavior more than we create it. If an intervention increases pedo behavior in 1% of pedos and decreases it in 99%, I think this is a huge amount of good and we would be terrible people to not do it." @aella.bsky.social aella.substack.com/p/ai-child-p...

"A frequent journalistic failure is to treat attraction, fantasy, and criminal behaviour as interchangeable. Legally and clinically they are not."

If you don’t allow your kids to have internet access until they’re like 16 and then just give them a phone they’re likely going to get scammed and abused immediately. This already happens. Kids need to be actively taught digital *literacy* from a young age, that’s the problem

Ron DeSantis is pushing to let employers schedule children as young as 14 for an unlimited number of hours, including overnight shifts. At the same time, Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would let employers pay kids below minimum wage. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...

It seems that every generation has some version of aversion to sex ed. This current version, besides being far removed from reality, also ignores the reality that children who have vocabulary are far less likely to be abused BECAUSE they have the language to report it.

Arresting an author for fictional stories doesn’t protect children. Real victims need real support, not a distraction from serious child abuse investigations. #childabuse #resources #priorities

"'Attacking someone so you can make money on social media is a crime,' said District Attorney Christopher L. de Barrena-Sarobe of Chester County, Pa., where the realjuujika attack took place."

🎉 Our parent nonprofit is here: Meet the Center for Online Safety & Liberty (COSL)—a new home for diverse projects defending digital rights, trust & safety, and ethical CSA prevention Prostasia remains independent, now fiscally sponsored by COSL, focused fully on evidence-based CSA prevention (1/3)

"Identical bills in Texas would make it a crime for librarians and teachers to provide books or learning materials that contain sexually explicit content, punishable by up to 10 years behind bars." And it's not even "sexually explicit" — they want to criminalize any mention of sex or sexuality.

Australian police do not know how to distinguish fantasy from reality. Do they plan to arrest directors of horror films next?

Meet Brendan Carr, America’s Federal Censorship Chair

Coming to a state near you. It's not if but when. "Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Texas thinks that 16 years old should be allowed to marry 60 year olds. They should spend more time protecting actual living human children instead of cartoons. When they needed to pass the bill to protect children, it failed in committee legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB92....

🚨 Florida legislators are actively trying to dismantle the Miller test — which determines if the government can ban a book/film/art/music/site. They've proposed requirements that it be evaluated "as a whole" and with respect to it's "redeeming social value" They want to make it easier to censor.

Aside from this likely violating the First Amendment because fiction is constitutionally protected, the government should spend less time "protecting" cartoons and more time protecting actual living human children.

You’re at much greater risk of harm from the actions of the federal government right now than from anyone on the sex offense registry. #EndTheRegistry

Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned | Techdirt https://alecmuffett.com/article/112635 #1StAmendment #TakeItDownAct #censorship #ncii

NEW: Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker introduced a bill that aims to protect homeschooled students from abuse or neglect. “Illinois has zero regulations regarding homeschooling — we are not the norm at all,” she said.

Save the Children Denmark has launched TalMedOs, a new anonymous and specialized counseling service for young people concerned about their sexual thoughts and behaviors.

"The male helpline has transformed support for male survivors in England and Wales over the last 9-years, yet when the Government need to make savings, support services for males are the first to be cut." safeline.org.uk/news/channel... @safelineuk.bsky.social

TAKE IT DOWN is the wrong approach to helping people whose intimate images are shared without their consent. Instead, it creates a censorship machine that can be weaponized to silence journalists, activists, and everyday users.