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Sex addiction and sex offending: a growing and dangerous relationship

With the internet, sex addiction can lead to sex offending.

Before the Internet, people were forced to great lengths to commit a sex offense.  Sex offenders were typically either compelled by a paraphilia or didn't give a damn about the laws of society.  People who suffered from a sexual addiction, on the other hand, typically acted-out through legal means, such as having affairs or casual sexual encounters; the most common illegal means being the hiring of prostitutes.

Subsequent to the Internet, there has been an explosion of out-of-control and illegal sexual behavior.  Activities such as viewing child pornography, soliciting sex with minors through chat rooms, and others are much more common.  Some of this has to do with the obvious fact that the Internet makes these activities much more available and easy.  However, there are other factors as well, such as an illusion of privacy while doing it, lack of immediate consequences for these actions, an idea that others are doing it to (that makes it feel less taboo), and that the need for new stimulation often leads to widening exploration. Of course, some people committing sex offenses might have otherwise anyway, and there are still those driven by paraphilias or who are highly antisocial.  But some sex offenders are more aroused to the illicit andforbidden nature of the material or acts than to the actual material or act - it is the taboo that is exciting. 

 Many people committing sex offenses today are otherwise law-abiding citizens who may not have ever crossed the line to commit illegal sexual acts if it weren't so easy and if they couldn't do it from the privacy of their own home, and are truly shocked when they are discovered and/or arrested. 

Does all of this make it okay or excusable to commit a sexual offense?  Absolutely not.  A sex offense is a sex offense because there is a potential victim involved - and the possibility that someone is harmed.  However, it may be information that is important for us to think about when it comes to sentencing and (ideally) treating an individual who has committed a sexual offense.  Now more than ever we should be thinking about the possibility of a sexual addiction as the driving force of a sex offense, and that the standard treatment models for sex offending may not be a complete model.  Likewise, the sex addiction specialist who is working with a sex offender may not have all of the tools that he or she needs for a comprehensive treatment.

These two areas - sex addiction and sex offending - are increasingly entwined in a growing and dangerous relationship.  And yet the fields of sex offender treatment and sex addiction treatment remain fairly isolated from one another.  Many sex addicts who get caught up in illegal activities and prosecuted end up in sex offender treatment with their addiction untreated.  And many sex offenders who have not yet been caught end up in sex addiction treatment with a provider who has little or no training regarding work with sex offenders.  It would behoove us to create as much dialogue as possible between these fields, so that we may grow to meet the needs  of this ever-increasing population of people who need our help - within a society that needs us to help them.

 

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Police Assault Sex Workers and Get Caught Red Handed Taking Money from Sex Worker

22 March 2011

   

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9 March 2011

A significant police backlash is being felt by sex workers around the country following human rights events for the International Sex Worker Rights Day on March 3^rd.

In Johannesburg, Sisonke Sex Worker Movement national co-ordinator Kholi Buthelezi had her hands full with sex workers calling her for help “the day after the march in Johannesburg I went from Germiston back to the city taking statements from sex workers who were harassed or arrested”. 27 Sex workers were arrested and released with a R300 fine in Germiston while in the City sex workers were harassed and one was assaulted.

Ms Buthelezi witnessed a police reservist soliciting a bribe from a sex worker – and took a picture of the culprit with her phone “I sent an MMS of the picture to an officer at the Johannesburg Central Police Station and they have promised to investigate.” The police reservist was carrying his police jacket in a plastic bag and demanded money from the sex worker, taking R10 after she said it was all she had. (Picture right)

In Limpopo provincial co-ordinator of the Sisonke Sex Worker Movement and partner organisation, Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme (TVEP) assisted a sex worker who was whipped on the stomach by police officers there. Prince Nare of TVEP said “she is a migrant sex worker and even though we encouraged her, she would not go to the hospital or clinic to have her injuries treated because she was afraid of being deported”.

The march in Limpopo had to be cancelled  because the Musina Local Municipality  took away permission for sex workers to march less than 24 hours before  the March was expected to start. No reasons provided in writing and the Station Commander at Musina Police Station threatened sex workers and the convener of the march with arrest and detention should they deliver the memorandum that sex workers had prepared. Sex workers had proposed that the group to deliver the Memorandum would be made of up only 5 people,  but the Station Commander still refused. “I was not surprised that the police would do such a thing,” said Mickey Meji of the African Sex Worker Alliance, “sex workers are sent away from police stations all the time when they want to report crimes. In fact our Memorandum demanded that they stop this practice and take complaints from sex workers seriously.”

Kyomya Macklean the regional coordinator for the African Sex Worker Alliance who organized this march stated: “People who brutalize sex workers do so with the hope that sex workers will feel too afraid to come out and report these events. Can these police officers not see that these women have feelings and that they were really scared or do they simply see sex workers as an object? When you kicked her do you not have any sense of remorse and concern for the victim or is this something that brings you enjoyment, a malicious and tic violence that comes from acting as a law unto yourself and feeling power, control and pleasure in hurting the other and reducing them to feeling helpless? But I want you to know, we will not be turned into objects and we will have the courage to be powerful and seek justice and demand we are treat with respect. You will not take taking away and undermine our capacity to experience ourselves in powerful and independent women.”

The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) will be following up all cases and working with our legal advice partners in Johannesburg and Limpopo to ensure that the police officers responsible for the incidences will be harshly disciplined. But, says Mickey Meji “until sex work is decriminalized, we will be dealing with the impunity of the police. The law with regard to sex work must be changed so that sex workers are safe and no aspect of their work should be criminalized.”

Contact: Sally-Jean Shackleton 082 330 4113

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Tips For Adult Webmasters

Here are some ways that webmasters can fight child pornography (CP), and help keep children from viewing adult material online:

PROTECT YOUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM

• Watch for low Trial to Full conversions from one affiliate account. Affiliate programs in the online adult industry have provided some CP operators with a convenient dodge. They target affiliate programs with a high PPS (pay per signup), and instruct potential customers to join those paysites. Once the customer's credit card has been approved, they email their new username and password to the CP operator, who verifies the account and provides the actual website, username and password for accessing the illegal material. The CP operator receives the signup commission, and the legal paysite is unaware of the transaction.

BE CAREFUL LINKING TO PORTAL DOMAINS

• Be vigilant when linking to portal domains. Some URLs appear to contain legal content, but when reloaded a few times display child pornography.

MONITOR LINKS ON TGP AND CJ SITES

• Use your own licensed images or exercise control over images posted by webmasters. Circle Jerk (or CJ) sites are a method of filtering poor quality traffic, but ASACP has received reports from both surfers and webmasters about CJ sites with thumbnail images that appear to feature underage models. These are used for shock value to generate click-throughs. Protecting your business means making sure your images are legal and look legal.

PROTECT YOUR DOMAINS

• Domains can be hijacked and used for CP or other illegal purposes. Make sure all your domains are secured with your registrar to minimize the risk of this scam!

LABLE YOUR SITES AS "ADULT"

• An easy and effective method used to prevent minors from accessing adult material is site labeling. Internet service providers, browsers, home filtering software, and even operating systems offer parental controls. To make sure those systems work, websites that are intended for adults only need to be clearly labeled as such. For more information click HERE!

KEEP INTERNAL LINKS OFF SEARCH ENGINES

• Prevent search engine spiders from crawling and linking to all of your site pages and content instead of just the entry points. When this happens, minors can surf directly to adult content, bypassing any content warnings or age verification you may have in place. These direct links to adult content are also often shared in chat rooms and boards. Every search engine has procedures to control what pages should and should not be included in their listings. Following these procedures help keep children from viewing your adult content and help you control how adult consumers enter your site.

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Morality in Media Targets ASACP's Letter to Congress Friday, April 1, 2011 By Dan Miller NEW YORK — Morality in Media, an organization that has waged an ongoing campaign to censor porn, has issued a press release intended to discredit the recent efforts of the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP). ASACP earlier this week sent a letter to Congress and state Attorney Generals offering a counterpoint to the anti-porn, phone-in and letter-writing campaign that is part of the “War on Pornography” being orchestrated by special interest groups such as MIM. The groups are demanding Internet censorship and Congressional interference with Constitutionally-protected speech. ASACP CEO Joan Irvine said that proactive measures continue to be needed to provide a balanced view of the issues surrounding the legitimate adult entertainment industry, and the need to keep children away from adult-oriented materials. In the Morality in Media press release, CEO Patrick Trueman says that ASACP states that Congress "does not need to prosecute illegal adult producers and distributors under existing laws because they are not involved in obscenity." “Nothing could be further from the truth,” suggested Trueman, the former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division. The press release goes on to state that, "Today, hardcore Internet pornography is the lifeblood of the porn industry and should be prosecuted under U.S. obscenity laws." “Many of the very groups that are part of ASACP are the ones responsible for giving the children of America unfettered access to hardcore obscene pornography on their websites," Morality in Media claims in its release. It continues, "Under the tenure of Attorney General [Eric] Holder, no illegal adult pornographers have been indicted and the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in DOJ's Criminal Division has been shut down. These actions caused U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Reps. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., and Randy Forbes, R-VA. to circulate a letter for signatures in Congress urging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to enforce existing obscenity laws. The Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography has been working to get signatures on the letter." Trueman added, “As a result of these efforts, Congress has been flooded with a groundswell of public outcry regarding the lack of obscenity law enforcement, with more than a quarter million people asking their elected officials to sign this letter." “We will see which side our elected officials take on this matter now that they’ve been solicited by the pornography industry for support. ... We’re simply asking for the enforcement of existing obscenity laws which would shut down most of the hardcore pornography available today on the Internet.” ASACP's Irvine on Friday addressed the MIM response to her organization's endeavors. "I wrote the letter talking about ASACP and what the industry is doing — providing truth and documentation," Irvine told XBIZ. "I was really surprised that their reaction was a personal attack against ASACP and myself. I’m very hurt because I’ve devoted eight-and-a-half years of my life to protecting children and ASACP has been protecting children for the past 15 years now. "We dealt with reality and statistics in the letter and they responded with a personal attack." [-] close window

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Morality in Media Targets ASACP's Letter to Congress Friday, April 1, 2011 By Dan Miller NEW YORK — Morality in Media, an organization that has waged an ongoing campaign to censor porn, has issued a press release intended to discredit the recent efforts of the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP). ASACP earlier this week sent a letter to Congress and state Attorney Generals offering a counterpoint to the anti-porn, phone-in and letter-writing campaign that is part of the “War on Pornography” being orchestrated by special interest groups such as MIM. The groups are demanding Internet censorship and Congressional interference with Constitutionally-protected speech. ASACP CEO Joan Irvine said that proactive measures continue to be needed to provide a balanced view of the issues surrounding the legitimate adult entertainment industry, and the need to keep children away from adult-oriented materials. In the Morality in Media press release, CEO Patrick Trueman says that ASACP states that Congress "does not need to prosecute illegal adult producers and distributors under existing laws because they are not involved in obscenity." “Nothing could be further from the truth,” suggested Trueman, the former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division. The press release goes on to state that, "Today, hardcore Internet pornography is the lifeblood of the porn industry and should be prosecuted under U.S. obscenity laws." “Many of the very groups that are part of ASACP are the ones responsible for giving the children of America unfettered access to hardcore obscene pornography on their websites," Morality in Media claims in its release. It continues, "Under the tenure of Attorney General [Eric] Holder, no illegal adult pornographers have been indicted and the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in DOJ's Criminal Division has been shut down. These actions caused U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Reps. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., and Randy Forbes, R-VA. to circulate a letter for signatures in Congress urging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to enforce existing obscenity laws. The Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography has been working to get signatures on the letter." Trueman added, “As a result of these efforts, Congress has been flooded with a groundswell of public outcry regarding the lack of obscenity law enforcement, with more than a quarter million people asking their elected officials to sign this letter." “We will see which side our elected officials take on this matter now that they’ve been solicited by the pornography industry for support. ... We’re simply asking for the enforcement of existing obscenity laws which would shut down most of the hardcore pornography available today on the Internet.” ASACP's Irvine on Friday addressed the MIM response to her organization's endeavors. "I wrote the letter talking about ASACP and what the industry is doing — providing truth and documentation," Irvine told XBIZ. "I was really surprised that their reaction was a personal attack against ASACP and myself. I’m very hurt because I’ve devoted eight-and-a-half years of my life to protecting children and ASACP has been protecting children for the past 15 years now. "We dealt with reality and statistics in the letter and they responded with a personal attack." [-] close window

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ASACP Reaches Out to Congress, State, Federal Officials

LOS ANGELES — The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has sent a letter to the U.S. Congress and the U.S. and state Attorneys General offering a counterpoint to the organized anti-porn phone-in and letter-writing campaign.

The ASACP said the letter is in response to the so-called “War on Pornography” being waged by special interest groups demanding Internet censorship and Congressional interference with Constitutionally-protected speech.

According to ASACP CEO Joan Irvine, proactive steps are needed to be taken to provide a balanced view of the complex issues and passionate debates surrounding the legitimate adult entertainment industry; the nebulous notion of “obscenity” and the need to keep children out of and away from adult-oriented materials.

“I read in the Amarillo Globe-News that Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Reps. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., and Randy Forbes, R-Va., have drafted a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that he begin vigorously prosecuting illegal adult pornography producers and distributors under existing obscenity laws,” Irvine stated. “In my email to Congressional legislators and Attorneys General, I informed them that ‘there is no need for this action, since the legal adult entertainment industry is not involved in obscenity.’

“ASACP can prove that the adult entertainment industry has taken steps to protect children from being in and viewing age-restricted content,” Irvine added. “The adult industry is just that — ‘by and for adults.’”

Since 1996 ASACP has operated a child pornography reporting hotline. An analysis of data compiled from more than 400,000 reports of suspected child pornography received by its hotline during a five-year period provides a deeper understanding of the scope and context of online CP.

ASACP launched the Restricted To Adults label in 2006. The success of this initiative shows that proactive steps taken by the adult entertainment industry, coupled with technology and parental supervision of children’s Internet and mobile use, is a highly effective means of keeping kids from age-restricted material.

According to Tim Henning, ASACP’s vice president of technology and forensic research, more than 4.5 million adult websites currently use the RTA label, accounting for the bulk of professional sites.

“There are more than 20 billion monthly hits to pages labeled with RTA,” Henning said. “The majority of sites have self-labeled with RTA including the 20 percent of adult sites that generate approximately 80 percent of all adult Internet traffic.”

Henning noted that this rapid adoption of RTA stopped U.S. legislation for mandatory labeling, adding that “If parents have installed parental filtering software and/or setup the built-in features available in Microsoft and Apple operating systems, then RTA blocks children from viewing age-restricted content.”

For its dedication and efforts, ASACP and its RTA labeling initiative have received widespread support from business leaders and trade associations, governments and civic organizations.

At a recent Free Speech Coalition press conference, Pink Visual President Allison Vivas commented on the industry’s support for ASACP.

“This is a group whose entire purpose is to help protect children and which has been recognized by the U.S. Congress.”

FSC Executive Director Diane Duke praised the adult industry’s filtering system, which prevents children from accessing its content. Duke reinforced the timely message by blogging at XBIZ, “The adult entertainment industry has always supported efforts to improve child Internet safety, especially greater parental involvement in filtering and supervising their children’s use of the Internet.”

These adult industry members referred to ASACP’s advanced online child protection technology and RTA. The website — RTALABEL.org — has recently been translated into French, German, and Spanish to address the needs of international consumers and website owners.

“Thanks to the support of the industry, ASACP has been able to create a free and easy-to-use label to designate content for adults-only,” Irvine said. “The movie industry has MPAA, the video gaming industry has ESRB, and the adult industry has its own label with RTA.”

The ASACP RTA program was also honored by the American Society of Association Executives by being named the overall winner of the 2008 Associations Make a Better World award.

ASACP has received Certificates of Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives, the California State Senate, California State Assembly, and the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, among others, all of which acknowledged ASACP’s efforts to help parents prevent their children from viewing age-restricted content.

The association educates the public through an ongoing series of Public Service Announcements, available on its YouTube channel. The most recent RTA PSA features star performers Riley Steele and Tori Black.

“By bridging the needs of parents, industry, regulators and other stakeholders, ASACP strives to make a profound societal difference that protects children and underscores the legitimacy of the adult entertainment industry — and which lessens the need for governmental involvement,” Irvine said.

FSC Launches Anti-.XXX Campaign

CANOGA PARK, Calif. — The Free Speech Coalition announced Friday that it is launching an anti-.XXX campaign and urging adult online businesses not to buy into the newly-approved .XXX sTLD.

“Collectively, adult businesses understand that .ICM’s .XXX is bad for the adult entertainment industry. FSC is launching this campaign thus continuing its effort to rid the industry of this hazard. We are encouraging adult businesses to Just Say ‘NO’ to .XXX,” FSC Executive Director Diane Duke said.

“But FSC acknowledges and respects that, when push comes to shove, businesses need to do what they think is best for their company,” Duke added. “That is why adult companies need to know the implications of purchasing .XXX domain names and why buying .XXX could be the worst investment they’ll ever make.”

FSC has developed a list of bullet points highlighting what it views as some of the most serious issues for adult online businesses regarding .XXX sTLD, and why they should avoid .XXX altogether. According to the FSC:

• .XXX costs at least 10 times what your .coms cost (recent numbers thrown out are $70-$75/per domain name).

• Five days after .XXX passed, India blocked .XXX with the promise of more countries like Australia, Germany to follow — instantly de-valuing the .XXX domain names.

• sTLDs have a proven history of failure — even ones that are not blocked by entire countries and have their industry’s support.

• High traffic websites will be leery of linking to your site, fearful of themselves being blocked or having dead links in blocking countries.

• All registrants of .XXX must agree to third-party automated monitoring of their sites for compliance of IFFOR policies — and you will have to purchase your domain name before you even know what those policies are.

• Aliases (.XXX and .com going to the same site) require that related .coms adhere to IFFOR policies.

• IFFOR Policies will be determined by a council hand-picked by a board chaired by ICM’s CEO Stuart Lawley-not the industry .XXX is supposed to represent. Moreover, ICM Registry has ultimate veto power over policy development.

• Businesses who register with .XXX make their alias .coms an easier target for censorship and blocking — do you really want to put your .coms at risk?

• Do the math — it doesn’t add up. Even if ICM’s claims of new consumers who “trust” .XXX ring true, for a company like Kink.com, which as approximately 10,000 domain names, it would have to bring in a three quarters of a million dollars in new revenues annually — just to break even.

Regulatory organization ICANN approved ICM Registry’s application for the .XXX domain last Friday, despite protests from its own Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, and strong opposition from leading adult industry businesses.

As the adult industry trade association, FSC says it will continue to support the better business interests of all adult businesses, and will lead the opposition to .XXX domains because it believes that buying into .XXX is harmful to the adult industry and for individual adult business.

It further stated that the .XXX domain will serve "only to fragment the Internet, make adult online businesses an easy target for anti-adult filtering and censorship, and also make it easier for under-age users to access adult material online." 

   

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