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National Awareness Campaign: Be Aware Porn Harms
July 11, 2011 through August 7, 2011

Pornography Addiction Treatment System

Morality In Media’s Be Aware: PORN HARMS National Awareness Campaign kicks off Monday, July 11th with a week of activities highlighting the pandemic of addiction caused by adult pornography.   More than 70 national and state groups are involved in this four-week campaign, expected to reach hundreds of thousands of Americans.

A different area of harm resulting from pornography will be highlighted each week: pornography addiction; harms to children; the links between pornography and sex trafficking; and violence against women. More than 30 online events will occur during the month and hundreds of free subscriptions to protection programs will be distributed.

Activities for the first week include:

• Monday, July 11th at 2:00 PM EDT
  Live Online Conference: Perspectives from addicts and the spouse
• Tuesday, July 12th at 11 AM EDT & 9:00 PM EDT
  Web and Call Presentation: 5 Hidden Dangers Facing You and Your Family Right Now
• Thursday, July 14th at 4:00 PM EDT
  Live Online Conference: Tools to Overcome Pornography Addiction
• Thursday, July 14th at 9:00 PM EDT
  Webinar – Overcoming Sex Addiction: Learning the difference between fantasy and positive relationships
• Friday, July 15th All Day
  Twitter Chat: Facts & Answers on Porn Addiction in 140 Characters. Just tweet using #pornaddiction at the end of your tweet.
• Sunday, July 17th at 9:00 PM EDT
  Online Documentary Screening: Out of Darkness

More activities are listed at the website:  www.PornHarms.com/beaware. Free posters for printing or website-use are available there as well.

“Addiction is one of the foremost harms of pornography. It is at crisis levels in the U.S.,” said Patrick Trueman, President of Morality In Media.   “It affects children and adults in very significant numbers and ruins many lives, marriages and families,” he added.   “Few pornography addicts are getting the treatment they need though there are many services available.”

Director of the Be Aware: PORN HARMS campaign, Dawn Hawkins commented, “The evidence of addiction to pornography is now so overwhelming that it cannot be denied. Porn addiction is affecting every segment of American society and the harm it causes is great.   Substantial research on pornography addiction can be found at the website www.PornHarms.com”

Morality In Media will not only highlight the problem of addiction to pornography, but provide many sources of support for addicts and family members.   Candeo, an addiction recovery service, as well as Covenant Eyes and Net Nanny, which provide Internet Safety software, will giveaway free subscriptions to their services.

“Addiction would all but disappear if the U. S. Department of Justice would vigorously enforce criminal laws against the major producers and distributors of adult pornography,” said Patrick Trueman.   “Attorney General Eric Holder must begin enforcing existing federal laws against obscene adult pornography now.   The political clout of the pornography criminals must be ignored in this time of national crisis,” he added.

About Morality In Media

Morality in Media, Inc., is the leading national organization focused on opposing obscenity and indecency through public education and the application of the law. MIM is leading The War on Illegal Pornography, a coalition of more than 100 national and state groups whose goal is to stop the distribution illegal pornography. For more information visit:

• www.waronillegalpornography.com
• www.pornharms.com
• www.moralityinmedia.org
• Addition to Internet Pornography
• Pornography Addiction Treatment System

The War on Illegal Pornography will host its first online conference via its Facebook page, Dec. 9, 11 a.m. until noon, featuring experts who will discuss the pornography pandemic and its relationship to sex trafficking, effect on marriages, and the need to prosecute obscene hardcore adult pornography.

The lineup includes:

• Dr. Donna M. Hughes, professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Professor Hughes is a leading international researcher on trafficking of women and children.   She will discuss how pornography leads to sex trafficking.
• Dr. Patrick Fagan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Fagan will discuss The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and Community.
• J. Robert Flores, former Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and former deputy chief prosecutor in the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.  Mr. Flores will discuss the need to prosecute obscene hardcore adult pornography.

“The trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation is a global human rights crisis being perpetrated by individual criminals and organized crime groups, and facilitated by increased tolerance for the sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of women and children,” said Hughes. ” New communications and information technologies have are now used to facilitate the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation.”

She elaborates further on this issue in her paper:
The Impact of the Use of New Communications and Information Technologies on Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Exploitation: A Study of the Users.

“Married men who are involved in pornography feel less satisfied with their marital sexual relations and less emotionally attached to their wives,” says Fagan. “Pornography’s power to undermine individual and social functioning is powerful and deep.”

Questions may be submitted online to the panelists during this one-hour presentation.   The event will be broadcast live from the  Pornography Harms Facebook page.

About The Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography

The War on Illegal Pornography is a coalition of more than fifty national and state groups founded by Morality in Media.  It is associated with the Pro-Family Forum on Pornography, which was founded for the purpose of education, strategic planning, and action on the issue of illegal pornography. The Forum has met on several occasions with the Department of Justice (DOJ) asking for enforcement of the current Federal Laws prohibiting distribution of illegal pornography.

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