CEASE is six!
By Naomi Miles, Founder and Chair of CEASE CEASE is six! Each year that passes, so much happens in this space. The need to take radical, decisive action has never been so urgent. There has been a lot of positive…
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The government can no longer turn a blind eye to the harms of the pornography industry
By Gemma Kelly Head of Policy and Public Affairs for CEASE CEASE welcomes the release of the Independent Pornography Review and the recommendations outlined by Lead Reviewer Baroness Bertin. Baroness Bertin’s review has called time on the pornography industry’s blatant…
Will Ofcom stand up to the pornography industry?
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, CEASE On Thursday 16th January 2025, Ofcom published its guidance on age verification for pornography sites that fall under Part 5 of the Online Safety Act 2023. These are websites that…
The PR of the pornography industry
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, CEASE Just do it. I’m lovin’ it. Because you’re worth it. We don’t even need to mention the brand names because the multi-million dollar advertising and PR campaigns for these companies…
We may not want to talk about pornography, but it’s time.
Guest blog by Hannah Shead, CEO of Trevi If you had told me five years ago that I would be chairing a conference on pornography, I would simply not have believed you. I would more than likely have told you…
Calls for Ofcom to stand up to pornography industry
New data from CEASE (the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation) shows parents are leaving it too late to talk to their children about pornography. Twenty-one per cent of parents of 11-13 year olds have talked to their children about…
A reckoning is coming
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs It’s been an interesting few months for Aylo, the current owners of Pornhub and nearly 100 other pornography sites. Undercover videos began dropping in October last year, revealing that amongst other…
Pornography is filmed prostitution: New evidence emerges
by Tilda Nilsson It is a beautiful October day in Stockholm – the kind of day where the air is crisp, and the trees look straight out of a picture book. I am back in my hometown; in the country…
The Online Safety Bill becomes the Online Safety Act
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs The Online Safety Bill has received Royal Assent. This Act is a once in a generation opportunity to regulate the pornography industry and protect children from the devastating harms of pornography. …
The Online Safety Bill: A Victory for Future Generations
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, CEASE I have a difficult job, we all do at CEASE. We have to dig into some of the most horrific and depraved areas of humanity. We hear harrowing stories of…