The Reward Foundation spent the summer working with John Carr, OBE, Secretary to the UK’s Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety, to produce the first Age Verification Virtual Conference for pornography. It took place in June 2020. The event included …
Global Summit
The Reward Foundation are participating in the 2020 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Online Global Summit between 18 and 28 July. With 177 speakers and over 18,000 attendees from more than 100 countries, it is the largest event ever in …
FREE Parents’ Guide to Internet Pornography-Pandemic update
Table of Contents Pandemic Overview of Porn Risks Adolescent Brain Autism Spectrum Disorders Short Videos on Protecting Children New Documentary by Parents for Parents about Porn’s Effects on Kids Help with those difficult conversations Top tips for talking to children …
Research ‘Manifesto’ for Pornography
In June 2019 Dr Darryl Mead and Mary Sharpe presented a paper on the future of research into internet pornography’s impacts. This was at the International Conference on Behavioral Addictions in Yokohama, Japan. TRF’s researchers are seen here with Dr …
International Coalition Calls on Major Card Companies to Cease Work with Porn Industry
Child safety and anti-sexual exploitation advocates and organizations from Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Denmark, England, India, Ireland, Liberia, Scotland, Sweden, Uganda, and the United States of America sent a joint letter this week to major credit card and payment processing …
Porn Pandemic
Big Porn Seeks to Capitalize on the Pandemic This guest post on the porn pandemic comes from Madeleine Kearns, a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at the National Review Institute. The original article can be seen here. Her …
Age verification soon?
The possibility of the UK Government enacting age verification soon for porn may be getting closer. Some of the companies who hoped to provide the age verification system are seeking a judicial review. This could force the Government to act. …
“Capping”?
What is capping? In this is important blog by child protection expert John Carr we learn about cappers and capping and what risk it poses for children. This is all the more relevant during this time of lockdown. Capping has …
WePROTECT Global Alliance
Parents often ask us what governments should be doing to reduce the risk of online harms to their children. This blog introduces some of the most important players, including the WePROTECT Global Alliance and the “Five Eyes” group. This guest …
Viewing child abuse
Startling new evidence of the extraordinary rise in the popularity of viewing child abuse imagery was published by The Times. The only credible explanation for the scale of the rise is due to escalation by viewers of legal online pornography. …