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Dear Friend,
This week (October 28-November 4, 2012) represents White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) week. During this time each year, we have the opportunity to inform the world about the reality of the harms of pornography and help them become educate, equipped, and empowered with the knowledge and resources they need to protect their kids from this dangerous material that can damage their innocent minds and hearts permanently. Please watch the below vignette about the Harms of Pornography and forward this email to your friends, family, and caring adults.
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With the advent of the Internet, pornography has become mainstream, viewable by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Even when kids are not looking for it, it finds them. Kids have free and easy access to graphic hard-core pornography, deviant content such as bestiality and excretory material and child pornography. As Ernie Allen, former President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children stated in our Internet Safety 101 Program, "The content that our kids are encountering online is not your father's pornography. It is graphic, it is explicit, it is deviant, it is abhorrent. Kids are seeing content that no twelve or thirteen year old is mentally, psychologically, or emotionally prepared to deal with."
Multi-disciplinary studies show evidence that indeed there are not only individual, life altering effects of pornography, but also significant social costs of pornography. Eight Key Findings on The Social Costs of Pornography (The Witherspoon Institute, 2010): - "Unlike at any other time in history, pornography is now available and consumed widely in our society, due in large part to the Internet. No one remains untouched by it."
- "There is abundant empirical evidence that this pornography is qualitatively different from any that has gone before, in several ways: its ubiquity, the use of increasingly realistic streaming images, and the increasingly 'hard-core' character of what is consumed."
- "Today's consumption of Internet pornography can harm women in particular."
- "Today's consumption of Internet pornography can harm children in particular."
- "Today's consumption of Internet pornography can harm people not immediately connected to consumers of pornography." - Specifically fuels sex trafficking of women and children.
- "The consumption of Internet pornography can harm its consumers."
- "Pornography consumption is philosophically and morally problematic."
- "The fact that not everyone is harmed by pornography does not entail that pornography should not be regulated."
Individual, Life Altering Effects of Pornography: - Has a negative impact on the emotional and mental health of children
- Fosters sexual "mis-education" in children
- Is addictive
- Diminishes sexual satisfaction
- Can fuel sexual aggression
- Can lead to objectification (obsessive fetishes over body parts and the rating of women by size and shape)
- Can lead to "acting out"
- Can lead to increased sexual callousness toward women
- Can cause some to trivialize rape as a criminal offense
Information about protecting your children from Internet pornography is available on our site. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, since once exposed the images can never be erased from the mind. It is essential for parents to use Internet Safety 101 Rules 'N Tools on all Internet-enabled devices. We also have a comprehensive list of filtering and monitoring software that we strongly recommend using to prevent access to pornography and other objectionable content. For more resources about what to do if you or your child encounters pornography, along with resources for those struggling with addiction, see our resources section. We're here to help you protect your children! For the sake of the children,  President & CEO, Enough Is Enough Executive Producer & Host, Internet Safety 101 |
Internet Safety 101 live streams on Facebook as part of WRAP Week 
On October 31, 2012 at 10:00 PM EST, an hour and a half segment of Internet Safety 101, an award-winning, evidence-based Internet safety training led by renowned Internet safety expert Donna Rice Hughes, will air online. The segments being shown from the 101 Program in this airing are Pornography 101 and Safety 101. Tune in to hear about kids' exposure to pornography in their own words and listen to the nation's top clinicians, psychologists, and researchers as they discuss the implications of pornography exposure, the warning signs and how you can talk to your children about healthy sexuality. Please note that the full 101 Program is not being shown, but rather two of the four sections. The Internet Safety 101 DVD in it's entirety consists of Pornography 101, Predators 101, Web 2.0 and Safety 101. See below for a full description of the Internet Safety 101 Program. Continue Reading. |
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Internet Safety 101 Video Vignettes on Facebook.
To ensure that our Facebook friends and followers are educated, equipped, and empowered we will release a series of our Internet Safety 101 Pornography 101 Vignettes over the course of WRAP week. Check our Facebook page and share with your friends. We need your help to educate America. If you're not following us on Facebook, please hop over to our page and become a fan! |
Somebody's Daughter
The Somebody's Daughter DVD raises awareness of the pervasiveness and destructiveness of pornography. In the 62 minute DVD three men and a husband and wife share their personal struggle with pornography confronting the lies and darkness of this addictive force with compelling honesty and hope. The DVD also contains four music videos and eight vignettes. The 55 minute bonus CD contains 9 original songs, stories, poetry, and scripture readings.
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Several other groups are celebrating WRAP week as well. Click on the links below to see our friends' work and resources:
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About Enough Is Enough
Since 1994, Enough Is Enough (EIE), a national 501(c)3 organization, has been Making the Internet Safer for Children and Families. EIE created Internet Safety 101, a multimedia program to prevent Internet-initiated crimes against children through educating, equipping and empowering parents, educators and caring adults with the knowledge and resources needed to protect children from online pornography, sexual predators and cyberbullies , as well as cyber security risks and dangers related to social networking, online gaming and mobile devices.
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INTERNET SAFETY 101
The Internet Safety 101 evidence-based, multimedia program was created to prevent Internet-initiated crimes against children through educating, equipping and empowering parents, educators and caring adults with the knowledge and resources needed to protect children from online p*rnography, sexual predators and cyberbullies , as well as cyber security risks and dangers related to social networking, online gaming and mobile devices.
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