Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

Join @WoodhullFreedom at a free conversation on how censorship has impacted adult performers, how porn can be beneficial for sex education, and how it affirms sexual freedom. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/censored-pleasure-porn-free-expression-sexual-freedom-tickets-630398658357

We signed the @dontdelete.art manifesto along with 1,800 artists and institutions because censoring art from social media is censoring constitutionally protected self-expression. Join us and sign here: www.dontdelete.art.

From Japanese nonprofit NPO Uguisu Ribbon, three new author's talks from @JudithLevine, @jilliancyork, and Nadine Strossen on pornography, sex, children, and human rights. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxKRSdB09l4hVy0QgZOU217__6HJ_F4uH

Twitter has banned @VirPedSpeaks, one of the platform's last bastions for non-offending MAPs. This is despite years of warnings from child protection experts that such bans make it harder to prevent child sexual abuse.
Read an open letter from 2018: https://prostasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Letter-to-Twitter-re-MAPs.pdf

@FSCArmy's Capitol Hill Fly-In is your opportunity to meet with members of Congress or their key staff to communicate how financial discrimination affects your business and the adult industry.https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/dc/

"Reporting numbers to the CyberTipline program sponsored by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), however, indicate that adult content prohibitions have little to do with image-based sexual abuse prevention." https://www.ynot.com/does-banning-adult-social-media-prevent-csam/

Corporal punishment is child abuse. And it's legal in many parts of the world, including in many schools.

Abolish corporal punishment worldwide now! #EndCorporalPunishment https://www.end-violence.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/Corporal%20Punishment%20-%2010%20key%20messages%202022%20%281%29.pdf

"The final prong is tertiary prevention, or the prevention of further harm once harm has already happened." https://prostasia.org/blog/primary-prevention-basics/

"Yet Congress is debating, for a third time, the EARN IT Act (S. 1207)—a bill that would threaten encryption, and instead seek to impose universal scanning of our messages, photos, and files." https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

https://prostasia.org/campaign/stop-earnit/ #EarnIt #EarnItAct

"The second prong is secondary prevention, basically the application of everything in primary prevention, but targeted towards at-risk groups:" https://prostasia.org/blog/primary-prevention-basics/

Reactionaries profit off the myth that sexual abuse is a mysterious phenomenon that can only be addressed after it occurs. But the research is clear: abuse has known causes, and it can be prevented before a child is harmed. That's what the prevention community is fighting for.