By Lauren Agnew, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, CEASE If I’m honest, when I first started exploring the conversation around raising the age of access to social media, I was on the fence. I strongly support safety by design:…
By Lauren Agnew, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, CEASE CEASE strongly welcomes the Government’s decisive action to raise the age of access to 16 for social media. Although staunch proponents of safety by design, we recognise the need for…
By Naomi Miles, CEO, CEASE Working in the area of sexual abuse, harm and exploitation, there is no shortage of alarming statistics and bad news, so good news is both rare and welcome. And here it is: the UK is…
by Naomi Miles, CEO, CEASE Let’s get these fundamental safeguards over the line! Force porn sites to verify age and consent, Ministers told We are launching a campaign calling for Age and Consent checks for all online pornography. The proposal is…
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs The times certainly are a-changing for the pornography industry and this time it is for the betterment of society. In May, Germany’s Berlin Administrative Court upheld a “network ban” on Pornhub…
By Dalitso Koroma, Policy Officer for CEASE Did you know the most searched porn term of 2024 was inspired by TikTok? What was once a platform for dance challenges and lip-synch videos is now shaping how people view sex. According…
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs Much has been said and written about the Netflix series Adolescence; discussion abounds. But regardless of what people think about it – whether as a show that sparked a much-needed national…
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…
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…
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…