Prostasia Foundation

Prostasia Foundation has closed its doors, but its values and work live on. 🌱 Child protection grounded in dignity, prevention, and human rights continues through many allies and projects. Read more about our legacy and what comes next: https://prostasia.org/?na=archive&email_id=136

Victims and survivors agree: DON’T use the word “pedophile” to refer to a perpetrator of child sexual abuse. https://nationalcentre.org.au/resource/child-sexual-abuse-language-guide/

Victims and survivors agree: DON’T use the word “pedophile” to refer to a perpetrator of child sexual abuse. https://nationalcentre.org.au/resource/child-sexual-abuse-language-guide/

What Should We Know About the Term “Minor-Attracted Person”? Author: David Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F We recently received a phone call at Safer Society from someone who had visited our website and seen the term “minor-attracted person,” also known by the acronym “MAP.” This person was obviously upset and told us that, in his view, this seemed like more o

“As we have long known, the sexual abuse of children is not restricted to a few highly prolific, dangerous people who persist in hurting others. Rather, there are enough people with sexual thoughts about children to consider it a public health issue.” safersociety.org/what-should-...

I discovered the murky world of 'minor attracted people' It's even more disturbing than you think.

"The Prostasia Foundation is one such group, campaigning to reduce stigma and help MAPs have law-abiding lives. They argue that efforts to combat child sexual abuse are ‘driven by emotion rather than evidence’, which they believe undermines effective prevention." metro.co.uk/2025/08/09/d...

Some early studies find that "doll owners were significantly less likely (to a moderate-to-large degree) to express a proclivity for sexual abuse in relation to the full-form of the Interest in Child Molestation Scale" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A chunk of silicon is neither a child nor can it be abused. Going after literal chunks of silicon, takes away resources that could be used to help ACTUAL real living & breathing abused children.

Online ageplay safety tips - Prostasia Foundation How to stay safe from harassers, predators, and police when engaging in consensual online ageplay.

And be sure to check out our article on online safety tips. While it does specify online ageplay, it's got good tips applicable for everyone prostasia.org/blog/online-...

Florida Cops Went to Absurd Lengths to Entrap Man Who Showed No Interest in Underage Sex How do you catch a predator in Sarasota, Florida? You create one. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) is going…

Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence that not only is manufacturing made-up crimes but also not actually doing anything to "protect children" reason.com/2019/10/21/s...

Was an Israeli pedophile really allowed to flee the United States? The always intelligent and well-informed people of the internet have recently started clamoring for me to address a scandalizing new incident: an Israeli government official, it is said, was arrested ...

⚠️ Law enforcement is wasting our tax dollars going after adults using dating/hookup apps to meet up with other adults. Stay safe out there! www.mtracey.net/p/was-an-isr...

Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules It was "horrible", "stressful" and "isolating" those affected tell BBC News.

"He highlighted his case to journalists, stating that appeals are 'largely ignored', business accounts were being affected, and AI was 'labelling ordinary people as criminal abusers'."

We need science-based, effective measures to support minor attracted people and other people at risk of CSA. Religion will not save us.

The current reactive system meant to protect children is clearly failing. We need proactive supports. CSA is as old as human history, and the way we've always done thing is still not working.

We need to stop infantilizing adults. Treating 20-somethings like children distracts from real child protection—and insults both groups.

At least some good news. Strong abortion laws help keep women, trans men, and children safe.

You Read a Pedophile’s Letter. Here’s What to Know Before You React. You may have recently read a letter titled “You May Have Heard I’m a Pedophile.

prostasia.substack.com/p/you-read-a...

Five in every hundred people have attractions they didn't choose — and never act on.
One of them just told the world.
This piece is for everyone still reeling.

US must keep funding for child sex abuse prevention | GUEST COMMENTARY Vital research funding to prevent child sex abuse is under threat, guest contributors write.

"Since 2020, Congress has allocated annual dedicated research funding in a bipartisan effort to better understand and prevent child sexual abuse. We strongly urge our national leaders to preserve federal funding for child sexual abuse prevention research."

Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid.

I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.

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In Maine “child welfare” it’s more like 1001 clowns – and there’s nothing funny about them Tragic life imitating comic art illustrates why Maine – and every other state – needs a “balance of harms” law.   Art …   The movie has a ...

Another excellent story from Maine Monitor illustrates urgent need for a law requiring #childwelfare judges to balance any alleged harm in the home against the harm of #fostercare. It should be easy for anyone to see where the balance should have been struck here. www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-m...

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

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MASS INCARCERATION IS A QUEER AND TRANS ISSUE, AND ABOLITION IS INEXTRICABLE FROM LGBTQ+ LIBERATION

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

YouTube profits from Andrew Tate content despite banning him from platform Expert accuses platforms of ‘knowingly profit from the spread of hate and harm’ and called on UK and EU regulators to intervene

“[YouTube] does not appear to be taking action to address this predictable tactic for keeping Tate’s misogynistic messaging in the limelight and in the feeds of 13-year-old kids.”

Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @yahoonews.com on our latest findings 👇

ICE helps round up sex workers in Florida A recent "human trafficking enforcement operation" in Polk County, Florida, led to 244 arrests—albeit none for human trafficking. If this sounds familiar,

Florida police used ICE to arrest nearly 100 sex workers, boasting about the number of immigrants caught.

The "human trafficking sting" turned up no actual human trafficking, but in a perverse twist, ICE can now abduct and traffick said "victims" to who knows where, for who knows what.

Sidney will be in touch!

Target's 'Pride' campaign potentially violated child protection laws in some states, attorneys general say Seven U.S. state attorneys general informed Target they are "concerned" the company's "Pride" campaign might have violated their state's child protection laws.

Also not maybe a coincidence, that Missouri's AG also is went after Target's Pride displays using child protection laws.

Both the age-verification law and the Target attack use the same "harmful to minors" three-prong standard.

This is great firewall stuff.

Airport human-trafficking posters are overstating the risks to young people "That guy isn't being trafficked by anyone," says sociologist Emily Horowitz.

"What is happening, she says, is something remarkably akin to the white slavery panic at the turn of the 20th century, with the authorities once again 'stoking these middle-class fears that a savage is coming to take your kid.'" reason.com/2025/05/13/h... @reason.com #MoralPanic #Trafficking

An update on my reporting from March: RAINN has taken a step further and banned resources for trans people and immigrants.

Many had defended RAINN, saying they would still serve trans people. Clearly that was wrong.

NYTimes did the recent reporting, but did not cite me.

Stop KOSA KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

KOSA is being reintroduced today.

It's always been a dangerous censorship bill.

But in this environment, with Trump weaponizing every aspect of the Federal government to suppress speech he doesn't like, KOSA is a catastrophic attack on human rights.

We have to stop it.

StopKOSA.com

To prevent childhood sexual abuse we need to speak up — and protect our words by Ignacio Rivera - VISIBLE Magazine Of the 199 words recently restricted or discouraged under the Trump administration as too “woke” for the federal government, more than 50 are explicitly tied to sex, gender, identity, bodily…

"Of the 199 words recently restricted or discouraged under the Trump administration as too 'woke' for the federal government, more than 50 are explicitly tied to sex, gender, identity, bodily autonomy, reproduction, and the sexual body." visiblemagazine.com/to-prevent-c... #FreeSpeech #ChildSafety