Behind closed tabs: How the porn industry’s profits are built on real-world abuse

Many people mistakenly believe that it’s harmless to watch free pornography online. “It’s simply a fantasy,” they say.

But a new report released by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation provides the hard proof that the pornography industry has contributed to the global rise in image-based sexual abuse (ISBA), which has serious and traumatic real-world impacts.

Our elected leaders need to act to hold pornography tube sites accountable for the abuses they perpetuate.

IBSA is a rapidly growing form of sexual violence that includes the creation, manipulation, theft, extortion, threatened or actual distribution, or any use of images for sexual purposes without the meaningful consent of the person depicted. IBSA manifests in several forms, including nonconsensual distribution of sexually explicit images or videos, recorded sexual violence, video voyeurism,

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