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PREVENTING AND COMBATING THE DEVASTATING HARMS OF
PORNOGRAPHY, PROSTITUTION, SEX TRAFFICKING & SEXUAL SLAVERY
Jack's Personal Story of Extreme Child Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking, Sexual Slavery & Sexual Exploitation

 

WARNING: The below account of child sexual abuse, shared in his own words by the young man who was abused, is extremely graphic, contains a great deal of profanity, and is very disturbing. Please do NOT read it if you are not prepared to be upset by what you read!

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My Story of Child Sexual Exploitation

and Sadistic Sexual, Physical and Emotional Abuse

by Jack from Canada

I am a survivor of child sexual exploitation. The absolute hell that I went through all those years ago still haunts me to this day, both the memories and the physical, mental and emotional damage that unfortunately will never completely heal. I would not wish what I went through on the Devil himself. I hope some of you find my story to be helpful and if I can reach at least one man, woman or child, then I know sharing my painful past will have been worth it. The following is my story...

Ok, where to start. I was around 5 or 6 years old when the abuse started. It all started when I was at a Youth Group meeting and I had to go to the bathroom. I was walking to the hallway in the corner of the gym where the bathrooms were. I was met in the hallway by the leader of the group. I forget his name but he asked me where I was going and I said I had to go to the bathroom. He said he would "help" me.

I knew how to use the toilet, so I didn't need help, but I allowed him to accompany me. When I was finished he grabbed a kleenex off the counter and was "cleaning" me off. He threw the kleenex in the toilet, but continued to touch me. These trips to the bathroom with him eventually became routine, and I just accepted it as his "help". Then, when I was 6 or 7, I graduated to the next level up of the Youth Group. And it is here where the truly sadistic acts of abuse took place.

The first memory I have of being abused in this new Youth Group was when I was taken to the basement of the church. There was a general rule, and that was to never go into the basement. It was "off limits". Anyways, one night the leader of the group said he wanted to talk to me about something, (I forget what exactly) but it was important. He led me out of the gym, and led me down the concrete steps into the basement. We went down the hall, turned a left, and entered the first room on the left.

All the doors were steel, and the walls were made of solid concrete. I remember that there was a small table and chairs on the right wall, and in the far corner, there was a cot, or some type of bed. He didn't turn the lights on because there was a yellow-tinted window above the bed, which let in enough light. He told me to take off my uniform. I did, down to my underwear. And then he told me to take the underwear off too. I remember tears streaming down my face as I did it. Then he said that I was perfect, and started caressing and kissing me.

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He eventually worked his way down to my penis and started rubbing me. This went on for a while, until he was satisfied. I put my clothes back on and returned to the other kids. At the next meeting, he took me by the hand and led me down to the same room. This time he said he wanted to know how good I was at sucking cock. (His words). I didn't understand him, so he said he would show me. He took off his belt, unzipped his pants, and showed himself to me. I asked him what he wanted me to do. He said he wanted me to put his penis in my mouth and suck on it. So I did.

After a couple of seconds he roughly grabbed my head and forced himself down my throat. I gagged and he pulled out and I threw up, and collapsed, sobbing. He yelled at me, then grabbed my hair, pulled me up, and punched me in the eye. This was my very first experience with violence, but it certainly wasn't the last.

The week after that, he forced me to give him oral sex again. This time he didn't use as much forced, but he finished on my face. I was scared shitless because I didn't know what it was. He just said it was cum, and now I was his "sex slave" and he owned me. He also said to me that I shouldn't tell anyone about this because no one would believe me.

This happened again the next week. The week after that he told me to undress again. So I did. I remember there was something in his hand, but I didn't know what. He told me to get on the bed and to lie on my stomach. I said I didn't want to, so he roughly picked me up, dropped me on the bed, and punched me in the stomach and told me again to lie on my stomach. I was really scared, and had no idea what was coming. He lubed himself up, and forced himself inside of me.

I will never, ever forget the pain. I immediately started screaming and sobbing, and he said that I could scream all I wanted, that no one would hear me. I remember he was very rough, and I could feel everything. It was horrible. I could feel the blood. When he finally finished, I curled up in a ball, sobbing. I remember I could feel his semen and my blood. It made me feel so dirty, so disgusting. This also happened the next week.

Oddly enough, the week after that, nothing happened. But the next week, he took my hand and told me he had someone he wanted me to meet. So we walked out of the gym and met a strange man at the door. They both led me down to the room, told me undress and wait on the bed. I was terrified, absolutely terrified. Then they both came in and the man from the Youth Group told me that the other man was going to have me. I started crying, but didn't say no, I honestly couldn't speak. The other man then asked the Youth Leader if he had any rope. He came back with rope and the forced my hands behind my back and tied them, and then tied my feet together. He then proceeded to rape me very violently, without any lubrication. It honestly felt like he was using a sandpaper condom, without the condom. I can't remember ever feeling a pain as intense as that.

He called me degrading things, and forced me to say them to him. Things like, "I'm a fucking faggot, I'm such an evil boy, I'm a whore, slut, fag, cunt, pussy etc., I'm a girl, I deserve this, etc etc." They would compare me to a whore or a slut, and compare me to females. I remember they would comment on how tight I was. They would sometimes regard me as "fuck-toy", and call me as such. I remember crying out for my mommy when they were fucking me, and they would either laugh at me, or hit me to make me shut up.

I can still vividly remember when the men would rape me. I can still hear their grunts, fast breathing, the things they said to me. I can remember when they would finish inside me. I felt so fucking humiliated, dirty, damaged, degraded. The pain was immense, both physically and psychologically. It literally felt like they were ripping me apart, because they were. I remember I would bleed a lot, which shows that they were literally ripping my insides apart. The physical pain was agonizing, I would sometimes see spots in my field of vision because the pain was causing me so much agony. They took my soul, my very sense of self, and tore it up, stomped on it, spit on it and left it in the dirt.

After he finished raping me, he started beating me, leaving me with several large bruises on my body and a black eye. The Youth Leader came in and also raped me. I remember there were times when I was raped so violently that I lost control of all my bodily functions. I would be screaming, "Stop!, please stop!, no! " into the gag. But they didn't care until I shit all over their penises. They would give me a few punches or kicks when I did that. It would just hurt so much because they were so rough with me. They wanted to cause me as much pain as possible, and my small body couldn't handle that kind of violent abuse/rape and the physical agony caused by it. The abuse caused me physical damage to the point that I had trouble holding feces in, and I struggle with that to this day. (I can keep in solid waste but I have trouble with liquid). It was so embarrassing, degrading and humiliating. It was truly depraved.

Those were the absolute worst nights of my life, future and past. Lying there in my own blood, shit and piss was the most humiliating, degrading, and the most horrible time of my life. I would always plead with them before they abused me. I would usually start crying, pleading with them to leave me alone. And I would be pleading with them during the rapes and abuse, screaming, "Please, no" into the gag, between sobs and screams. They would usually respond with, "You're our slave, our little fuck-toy, and you'll do what we want. We own you, and you belong to us."

This continued for the next few months, and included with the bondage was the use of a makeshift gag and blindfold. This really scared me because I couldn't scream, and I couldn't see anything. It really psychologically scarred me. I remember that I would struggle against the ropes, but they tied them too tight. When they would tie my legs together, I remember they would spread my ass and then force themselves inside me. It hurt so much every time. I can still sometimes feel themselves inside me and the immense, white hot pain that follows. I remember I could hear their fast panting, harsh, degrading words, and the sound of their groin slapping my ass. I can feel the sickening sensation when they would finish inside me and how dirty and disgusting it made/makes me feel. I HATE that I can still hear, feel, see and smell everything like it just happened the night before.

I remember for the first month or two I would bleed, but after a while I stopped. I still wonder if a doctor would be able to notice today if I was raped, because there must still be scar tissue in my rectum. Each time, the Youth Leader would bring a man (I`m still not sure if it was the same man, or different men) and they would both rape me and usually beat me. I also remember that when I was forced to perform fellatio on either of them, they would usually finish on my body, usually my face. The other times, they would forced me to swallow their semen. They also threatened my life and the life of my family if I told anyone.

All of this abuse was absolutely disgusting, degrading and humiliating. There were more than a few times where I was forced into double sex acts. Usually the strange man would be anally raping me, while I was being forced to perform fellatio for the Youth Leader. Sometimes, the anal rape would hurt so much that I would accidentally bite the leader`s penis. I would usually get beaten when I did that, all the while, some strange man was continually raping me.

It's just so upsetting for me to know that two men were violating me, raping me, at the same time. It just made me feel more like a worthless whore. The positioning of it was that my knees were bent and my butt in the air. Some of this occurred when I was tied or blindfolded, which only added to the horror of it. The man would hold my head and force himself in my mouth. He would also just hold my head and fuck my mouth. I gagged and tried not to throw up. They were rough with me... very rough. There were times when I couldn't breathe because one of their penises was in my throat, effectively choking me.

I remember one of these incidents very well, where I was choking and the man was getting pleasure from my body's attempts to rid the blockage from my throat. Then, when I was about to pass out, he removed himself from my mouth and left me gasping for air, screaming and crying. And the man just laughed. I was so scared. I just felt like a sex object. I just wanted them to leave me alone. They would say degrading things to me. They would slap or punch me. When one of them was raping me, he said, in between my sobs and screams, he looked down, laughed, and said my tight fucking ass was bleeding like a bitch. I remember when I was forced to do this, they would call me a good-for-nothing whore. They would call me a cunt, a fuck toy, a slut. "You fuck like a dirty whore. That's all you are is a dirty fucking slut."

After it was done, I had their semen everywhere, and again, I was bleeding. I had semen on my face and running down my chin. I felt so humiliated, so degraded, objectified and so dirty. Then they untied me. I curled up in a ball, rocking back and forth, crying. They were getting dressed and still, they mocked and made fun of me. They said that what they did was all I'm good for. They saw the blood and then said how fucking tight I was. One time, when one of them was fucking me, he said, "How do you like this you little slut?", and it just hurt so bad that I was sobbing and screaming, "It hurts! It hurts!", and he just said, "Well you better get used to it you whore."

They would do anything they wanted to me. I was so scared and horrified that after it was done, I wouldn't breathe a word of it to anyone. There were quite a few times where one of the men would loop a length of rope around my neck, and choke me while they were raping me. I don`t remember ever loosing consciousness, but there were a few close calls. Then, there are two times that I can remember, where they would cut me. They used a pocketknife, and would tie me up and usually gag me, and would make small cuts on my body. Not bad cuts, but usually enough to draw blood. They also held the knife to my throat and threatened to slit my throat from ear to ear if I told anyone about what was going on. They would also hold the knife to my throat during the rapes, which only added to the absolute horror to it. After any of the abuse sessions I would be so sore, torn up, bloodied, dirty with semen/blood/shit/puke/sweat/saliva, bruised and exhausted.

One of the times I was in the basement, I remember there were three men there. One of them was stroking my face, saying he wasn't going to hurt me. I was shaking and crying and I was pleading with them to let me go. I was crying, and I was saying I wanted to go home, that I wanted to see my mom. The door was closed, and I just bolted to it... but it was locked. One of the men picked me up and threw me on the floor. They then said that if I ever told, or ran away, they would go after my family. I told them I would do whatever they wanted, as long as my family was safe. They decided to tie me up, and then they raped me. This was one of the times when I lost control of everything, because I was just in so much physical pain from the rape.

They were always really loud when they hurt me. Their panting, grunts, and harsh, degrading words were always so loud and angry. This is why I'm afraid of loud noises and when people are angry, even if it's not directed at me. I recently remembered that there was a camera in the room during one of the abuse sessions. I remember being anally raped and I turned my head and saw a red light and a camera lens. I just really hope that the video(s) weren't put on the Internet. Just thinking about other sick men getting off on my abuse just makes me want to puke. And if it is on the Internet, then there's no possible way of getting it off. The good thing is that the room where the abuse took place was dimly lit, so I don't think that I would be identified. But just knowing that my abuse is out there somewhere in physical, visual form, is just highly disturbing. I just don't want pictures out there of me covered in semen and blood. It would just add to the humiliation and shame that I already heavily feel.

I remember that we were selling apples one day. The leader was in my group for supervision. It was about 2 or 3 in the afternoon when he convinced the other leaders to send a few of us kids with him to a nearby village to sell apples. I remember on the way there, the clouds seemed so dark, so ominous. When we got to the village, he told the other kids to sell apples down the street while he took me up a gravel road. I remember looking across the street and seeing a small old barn covered in vines. He led me up to a run-down house with a tiny old cemetery next to it. It was a very creepy place.

The leader knocked on the door and a man answered. They led me in and the next parts were kind of a blur. I remember there was a small group of men, maybe... 4 or 5. And I remember having to have sex with at least 3 of them and giving the other two oral. One of the men who raped me bit my ear till it bled while he was raping me. I remember their panting, grunts and moaning. I was clenching the edges of the mattress so hard that my nails were digging into the fabric. One of the men who anally raped me pulled his dick out of me, and forced himself in my mouth. It tasted so disgusting, but I managed to not throw up. He was rough, and shoving his dick down my throat. I was sobbing when he pulled out and ejaculated on my face.

I was so fucking humiliated, embarrassed and degraded. I was bleeding by the end and could feel their semen inside me coming out of me and in between my legs. I could taste the salty, disgusting taste in my mouth. I had their semen on my face and in my hair. I was torn up, extremely sore, bloodied, bruised and forever traumatized. That day I truly felt like a whore. I felt so fucking dirty. I was sobbing at the end, curled up in a ball, naked, on that mattress. I was led to a bathroom where I cleaned myself up, and dressed myself.

After it was over, we got the other kids and left back for town. I remember the searing pain when I sat down in the backseat of the car. It felt like electricity was going up through the center of me. It all just hurt so much. I still remember the ride back, I was looking up at the sky through the window, wishing I would just be set free. I had an emotionless face the whole ride home. By this time, I had become a master of hiding my emotions and keeping up my happy exterior while my humanity rotted on the inside.

After the apple drive, the abuse continued. I guess the man who went from my ass to my mouth told my abusers what he did to me, because one of the men did that to me after that day. He was anally raping me when all of a sudden he pulled out of me, turned me around, and shoved his dick down my throat. This time, he was so rough with me that I puked all over his dick. I was sobbing when the man slapped me and told me to shut up. That's all I remember of that.

There were times when our Youth Group went on overnight camping trips. This just came to me today, but I remember some horrible things happening at a campground about 8 miles out of town. I remember it was the first night, and one of the other kids told me that the guy who abused me wanted to see me in his cabin. I went inside and there was a bunk bed on the far wall and a dresser by the window. He grabbed me and threw me on the bed. He took off my clothes and then tied my legs to the bedposts and my arms above my head. It was about 8 or 9 at night. I remember he raped me, and then 3 other men came in and raped me too. I wonder if they were the same ones from the house, I think they were, but I'm still not sure.

They beat me, raped me, and spit on me. They said degrading things during the abuse. They were really rough and it just felt like they hated me. I remember clenching the sheets so hard that my knuckles hurt. I felt so used. I felt like nowhere was safe from these people. I was so scared. It just hurt so much, being abused again and again by different people. I didn't even fight back. I just laid there and took it. They said, "You're such a good little fuck-doll. You fuck just like a whore." I was bleeding and they pointed and laughed. They said they "popped my cherry." They said I was their ""fucking little whore, their own little sex slave." They said I was a good-for-nothing little slut and that all I was good for was pleasing them. Then the one man leaned over and said if I told anyone, they would do the same things to my sister and mother, and then they would kill me. It was around 1 or 2 am when they finally were done with me and untied the ropes. I remember going back to my cabin and getting into bed with tears streaming down my face.

After about a year into the abuse, I learned to separate my mind from my body. I have a lot (probably more than half) of memories where I could see everything going on, like I was floating above the abuse. But there were also times where I was unable to leave the abuse, and I experienced and endured all the torture and pain they dished out to me. I still don`t know if seeing the abuse happening is a blessing or a curse, because I could see the tears and pain on my face. And I could see this huge man raping a small child, usually with my hands and feet bound.

All of this shit is deeply, deeply disturbing. I still can`t believe these men considered me their sex slave, but that is basically what I was to these sick fucks. But I had decided that there was no way out of this, and that I should just accept it. Anyways, so this sadistic abuse took place over the course of 3-4 years. I remember the day after one of the meets and the subsequent rapes, I said "enough." I said to my dad that I had to get out of the Youth Group, that I would do anything. He said I had to pick something up to take its place. At first I said the clarinet, but he said he wouldn't buy me one. I look desperately around and saw my brothers old guitar in the corner of the room. So I asked if I could learn to play guitar, and he said "sure"!!! I have never been so relieved in my entire life. I believed that the abuse was finally over. How wrong I was.

So I was out of the Youth Group for about 6 months, when I was violently raped again in the woods near my home. You can see the story of that in one of my past journals. I currently have a sneaky suspicion that this was the strange man from my abuse in the Youth Group. Side note: I don't know who cleaned up after the abuse, but I think it was the leader's friend who cleaned up the mess afterwards. There was a bathroom in the basement that I was led to where I would clean myself up, and where I would get dressed.

I'm also thinking that overall, I don't think there were as many events as I once thought. I don't think it happened once a week, but maybe 3-4 times a month. (Sometimes there were two abuse events in one week.) But over the course of 2 years, that still adds up to a lot of abuse. I'm just thinking that I don't think I was abused as often as I previously thought.

There is a lot of evidence in my behavior that this was going on. I remember having an interest in S&M from about the age of 7 or 8. Like, what kid knows about that kind of thing at that age. I remember I would tie my feet together and masturbate, I would try to tie my hands together when I was alone. I would try to get other kids to tie me up, and one time, tried to get a female friend to let me lie in a hockey bag and have her zip it up.

I remember having an interest in knives, especially pocketknives, from an early age, and using them to make small cuts in my stuffed animals. I remember I engaged in autoerotic asphyxiation for a very short period of time. I would act out my abuse alone with my large stuffed animals. I also had sexual identity problems, like wondering if I was supposed to be born a girl. I also remember sleeping in my sister's room (on the floor next to her bed) during the abuse and for a number of years after. I believe that the reasoning behind this was that my sister represented everything that I had lost. Such things and qualities as innocence, purity, cleanliness, and a sense of joy, happiness and positiveness. This made me feel safe and protected, even though I knew she could never physically protect me or stop the abuse. Oh, and she is three years younger than me.

I also remember that I started being afraid of the dark around the time of the more severe abuse. Of course, this could be normal as a lot of children are afraid of the dark, but I just thought I'd throw it in here. So the evidence is really pilling up. The flashbacks to my abuse are extremely intense. The intense ones are really bad where I start shaking A LOT, I can feel pain all over my body, and there have been times where I have been physically sick from the intensity of the flashbacks. Lately, when I'm having a flashback, whenever I close my eyes I can feel everything happening to me. And when I open them, I can see everything happening to me from when I had my out-of-body experiences. The flashbacks, for me, are the worst.

Today I had an appointment at the doctors. I was triggered immensely because the doctor and the student doctor, who were both males, reminded me of my two regular rapists/abusers. It was so horrible. The following was my interpretation of what happened at the doctor's. It was skewed because I was triggered so severely along with the physical happenings with the rectal exam. So I had an appointment with the doctor today down in the city and it was absolutely horrible. It was pretty much a worst case scenario. The doctor as so creepy and my skin crawled every time he touched me. He took my hand and started talking about how he knew about my past and to just relax, but the way he said it, he almost sounded sarcastic and I knew he didn't mean any of it, he was just feigning interest. This doctor was just so insensitive and he just gave off such a creepy vibe.

Anyways, and then I had to go through the procedure itself which was really triggering. There was a student doctor there and when I sat up after the procedure, I saw him leaning over, looking at my privates. And then the doctor noticed the scars on my leg and had the audacity to start talking about it and why I did it. I mean, fuck off, seriously, are you a fucking psychiatrist/psychologist? Anyways, I couldn't get out of there fast enough. He did manage to get the job done though. He told me he found evidence of the sexual abuse from damaged muscles in my rectum.

The thing that is really sick about all this, is that when I went back to the room where I was sadistically abused, the church had converted the room into a nursery!!! I couldn't believe it. One thing is that I feel like I can relate to survivors of sex trafficking. I find when I watch movies about this subject, I can relate to what those young women and children go through. My abusers didn't let me leave the basement until they were satisfied. They also threatened my life and my family's lives if I told anyone or went to the police. They also told me I was their sex slave, which technically I was.

I also don't know if there were only two abusers involved or more. Really, the only differences between what I went through and what survivors of sex traffic went/go through, is that they were taken from their country and all things familiar to them. It just makes me feel better to know that there are people out there that know exactly what I went/going through. One thing that I have realized, is that I'm actually a survivor of a form of sexual slavery. Through the use of restraints, gags, blindfolds, chokings, being cut, rapes, sexual abuse, beatings, threats of death against me and my family, and they said it themselves... they essentially "owned" me, and I was their sex slave.

So this realization that I am a survivor of sexual slavery has made me feel a variety of emotions. I sometimes feel good knowing that there are people who know what I'm going through. But there are a lot of negative emotions just around the fact that this happened to me. Anyways, I still have a long way to go. Ok, so I just kinda realized that I am a survivor of sexual slavery and trafficking.

I've never thought of my abusers as pedophiles, because they were violent, forceful and they just hated me. That's why I don't like the word "pedophile" to describe my perpetrators. I would rather call them sadists, or misopedists. (Men who hate children). I'm also having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that I was literally their sex slave. I don't want to believe it because then they would have had complete control over everything that is me, and that scares me... it scares me a lot. I just have a lot to come to terms with. Nonetheless, I've just come to this conclusion because I was raped by at least 8 men. If you know my story, I think it would make sense.

This, for me, makes it more important to tell the police, but I'm terrified to do so. If it's even semi-organized, then I'm afraid that someone could hurt me. They said they would kill me if I ever told, and I've had that fear ever since I left the Youth Group. It's just so painful knowing that there were 8 men who thought of me (as a young child!) as nothing more than a sex object. It just crushes me. It's so hard to wrap my head around. I thought this type of thing only happened in major cities... how wrong I was. It's just incredibly painful to think about.

Anyways, another thing that supports my idea is that the town I grew up in had a lot of sex offenders. I would read in the paper all the time that there were guys trying to pick up children in vans and cars. That a man would approach a child and try to lure them somewhere. And my town only had a population of 6500 people! Like, my town was the epicenter for pedophiles and sex offenders of the surrounding counties. I think this is why I recognize with survivors of sex trafficking and sex slaves, and also with survivors of any kind of sexual violence/abuse.

This is hard to talk about because if it were just the two men who regularly abused me, and then 6 random people, somehow I think that would be better. But the fact that they all knew each other is just really painful to think about. Especially because they knew what was going on, but none of them did anything to help me. I have a feeling that the main Youth Leader (who was my friend's dad) knew about it. My mom told me he actually left the organization because he knew that rape and abuse was going on, but he decided to turn a blind eye and then just walk away, without helping anyone!!! This is why I have almost no faith in humanity. It's fucking sickening is what it is.

The following is what I go through during an intense flashback. Ok, I just came out of the shower where I sat sobbing uncontrollably for half an hour. I'm still sobbing and I don't know what to do. I wish they would've killed me. Why couldn't just one of them choke me to death. Or why couldn't they had just slit my throat like they said. They had absolute no mercy. They decided to let me live with the sick things they did to me. I mean, I was raped by up to 8 men, and none of them had any conscious to tell someone. Couldn't any of them see how much pain I was in? Like, couldn't they see they were destroying my soul, my very sense of self? I don't believe these were just normal people. These were demons. I mean, there's no way that a man could do this to a fucking child! I wonder what they hated most about me? My innocence? My love of life? My trust in humanity? I hate them. I hate them so much. I have completely lost my trust and faith in humanity. I am a shell. A shell of what once was.

I wonder what it would be like to be a prostitute. How much money could I bring in a week? Like seriously, it can't possibly get any worse than this. After going through what I did, I can't imagine what would be worse. I feel so alone, so cold and alone. I don't know what to do. How did it come to this... I no longer fear hell, for I have been there for 12 years. This is basically how I think of myself. I feel like an object. I feel like all I am is a whore, a dirty fucking whore to be used and abused by men. A person to be used and thrown away. I feel like less of a person. I feel like all I'm good for is sex, and all I'm good for is pleasing men. I feel like the only reason I'm here is to sexually please men. I don't know who I am. I look in the mirror, trying to find myself, the real me, and I can't find him. All I see is a whore. All I see is someone who's not a real person. I just see a piece of meat.

So, if you made it this far, I applaud you. This was not an easy journal to write, and I don't think it was an easy journal to read. I hope that this inspires you to write about your own abuse or rape. Thank you for taking the time to read this, it means A LOT to me.

Take care and much love,

Jack

P.S. If anyone has any respectful comments that you would like to share about my story, for instance how it has helped you or what you learned from it, please comment below. (Scroll down on this page.) I would find it very helpful and therapeutic to hear from others about how reading my story has affected you and what it has meant to you. So please comment if you have anything you'd like to say, and I will check this page regularly to read the comments and will comment back if needed or appropriate. Thanks.

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AntiPornography.org note: The above story may not seem to have much to do with pornography, but in fact it does. The abusers in this story were clearly trained by the "script" of pornography, and were clearly acting out that script on Jack that they had been programmed by. It is no coincidence that the abusers used the language that they did, and that they engaged in the specific sort of sexual abuse that they did. All of it is straight out of what is now standard, mainstream pornography. (Although of course standard mainstream pornography does not have children as the individuals being sexually abused. The multibillion-dollar illegal CHILD pornography industry, however, DOES use children for their filmed sexual abuse. In regular adult pornography, instead of a child, the role of the abused victim is usually assigned to vulnerable young women who are usually already survivors of child sexual abuse themselves, which is usually what allows them to accept the abuse that they are subjected to in pornography, as it is their "normal" and therefore what they gravitate to because of the familiarity.)

Pornography was undoubtably the training manual, programming and inspiration for the child sexual abuse of Jack. It is almost certain that at first the abusers gained pleasure by masturbating to sadistic sex acts being carried out on the screen by others in pornographic videos Then they likely progressed, as is often the case, to wanting to carry out those sadistic sex acts on a real-life victim. Then they progressed to filming the sexual abuse that they themselves carried out, so that others could watch it and take sexual pleasure from it. This would begin the cycle all over again for others.

What the above story (and the understanding of how pornography almost certainly trained Jack's abusers) makes abundantly clear, is that addressing pornography and its harms is equal to -- and equally as important as -- addressing child sexual abuse in and of itself, as pornography is clearly the FUEL that keeps the epidemic fire of child sexual abuse burning out of control across the world.

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Love on October 7, 2012 at 10:34 AM said:

Am so sad this happened to you. How on earth can people be this inhumane. I want to thank you for your bravery. I just can't believe this happened to you. OMG!!! this is so bad. I pray those men are caught and rot in prison. Be strong, you are doing an amazing job when it comes to letting others know about your abuse. I wish you all the best!!
Robin on September 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM said:

Jack, I have two boys and the story you have described has broken my heart. I want to give you a big hug. I also want to kill those men, after they are adequately tortured. I know that is not a healthy response but these men don't deserve to live. You are a brave person for telling your story. Have these men been caught yet? Hopefully you can help put them away although I know that is an extremely difficult thing to do. They won't fare well in prison. Thank you for sharing your story. I know you know in your head that none of what happened was in ANY way your fault but I can imagine that it would be a daily struggle. God bless you and good luck with your life. Please try to be strong, you can make the world a better place unlike the cowardly excuse for men you had to deal with.
Natasha on August 9, 2012 at 7:20 PM said:

Hi Jack, I cannot find the words to express the compassion my heart holds for you. I am SO sorry for what those bastards did to you, NO ONE deserves to be treated this way! I hope you have some good supportive people in your life who can help you get through the hard times. Just remember you are safe now, and they were wrong, you *weren't* their slave forever! Nor are you any of the horrible things they said you are. Much peace, respect and healing to you brother.
Lori on August 2, 2012 at 10:05 AM said:

What you've endured is horrific and I am so very sorry for all the pain and hurt you suffered and that you still suffer. You were a gentle, sweet little boy, worthy of protection and love and you were failed. You are a bright light. You are beautiful. You are important.
FreeIrishWoman on June 25, 2012 at 3:43 PM said:

Hi Jack, and thank you for sending me the link to your testimony. It is so hard to know what to say on reading something as painful as this; painful to read, and obviously infinitely more painful to write. All I can say is that there have been a few times in my life where I read something or heard something that left me with the disturbing understanding that I would be capable of murder. This was one of those times.

What you said near the end of your statement about wondering what it would be like to be a prostitute, that is so very common. So many prostituted people, women and men, were abused as children. Most people who know this know it because they read about it; I know it because I worked alongside them, so I can confirm that it's true.

What men who buy sex don't care about is that a huge proportion of the prostituted are selling sex because they were trained to think of themselves as pieces of meat, just like you were.

Please don't ever prostitute yourself Jack; I can tell you from my own personal experience that prostitution is just another form of sexual abuse - but in taking that money you have sold more than your body: you have sold your right to call your abuse by its true name. It is the lonliest abuse, in my opinion.

My heart breaks for all you have been through. I feel though (and I have to say this to you) that this will never be over for you until you have pressed charges against these sub-human scum. A friend of mine posted a wonderful quote beneath my latest blog post today; I think it could benefit you to read it, so I hope you do.

Take care of yourself Jack; don't ever stop loving yourself because other people abandoned their own souls. xxx

FreeIrishWoman
Jack on June 23, 2012 at 10:19 AM said:

Hey Soul Destruction,

I have thought about your concerns even before I gave my story to this website. I weighed the benefits and costs to having my story here and I decided that the pros outweighed the costs. People need to hear my story. They need to get into the mess, the pain, to truly understand what people like me go through. I originally wrote what happened to me to get it out of my head, and that included the graphic depictions. People who have no idea what happens to people like me, (prostituted people, pornography survivors, basically survivors of the sex trade, and child sexual exploitation and slavery), need to know what really happens. They need to understand the severe trauma that people like me go through. It's my hope that people will be moved into action to abolish these horrific crimes, which are crimes against humanity! They need to know that this happens to children, as well as adult women, every day! And it's my hope that by sharing my story, people will stand up and fight.

As far as pedophiles getting off on my story. I'm sure it happens, but I'm not going to let that stop me. In sharing my story, I'm starting to get back the control that was ripped away from me, and I'm not going to let some people discourage me from that.

But I do thank you for your consideration! It shows you care and that means a lot to me, so thank you so much!
Soul Destruction on June 13, 2012 at 8:09 AM said:

I have only read the opening of your website. I couldn't read more about the abuse you have suffered as I find it too painful. I write about abuse too but I never give any detail. I concentrate on the psychological feelings and terrible effect it has on peoples lives including PTSD which I suffer from. I am concerned that the detail of your abuse on your website is material for paedophiles to get off on. Perhaps that level of detail is best kept for your private conversations. I think you have been through enough than for these sick people to get off on the pain you have suffered. I am sorry if I am out of line. I feel so strongly about this.
Angel K on May 5, 2012 at 10:25 AM said:

Thank you for telling your story, Jack. It takes courage to put this stuff down on paper because it means acknowledging what happened, that it was real. You say you identify with prostituted women, and likewise I identify with a lot of what you said - the fear, covering emotions while being destroyed slowly inside, the name calling, the pain and humiliation, being covered in other people's body fluids. And this being filmed for entertainment!

You say how scary it is seeing how powerless you were. It is terrifying. At the time our minds try to shield us but looking back brings more clarity and so more pain. Processing trauma like this is painful beyond measure. The splitting you mention takes time and love to begin to heal.

But joining together we are stronger and we can begin to speak out. Your voice, your story, is so powerful and it is so important. The truth needs to be heard. The sex industry would have us believe it is a great liberator, with no side effects. What happened to you shows this for what it it: a lie. Stay strong and keep speaking out. Take good care of yourself: it is a testament to your strength that you survived such torture. You deserve gentleness now, even if you find that hard to receive.

You are making a difference speaking out. The men who hurt you gagged you in more ways than one. By writing you are taking control and taking your life back. Keep on keeping on.
In solidarity and with love
Angel
dublincallgirl on April 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM said:

Thankyou so so much for sharing your story Jack. I love hearing from you and hope you stay in touch.
So much love to you, you're a tough cookie, a fighter, and an inspiration

xxxx
Jack on February 19, 2012 at 7:28 PM said:

*******GRAPHIC*******

Another memory of my hellish past is being raped by two men, anally, at the same time. I only lasted about 20-30 seconds before I passed out from the searing pain.
Jack on February 18, 2012 at 6:46 PM said:

New memory. I want to add these as they come up because I want to get it all out. I want people to know to the fullest extent of what happened to me so that I can inform people that these kinds of atrocities happen in our world. Also, even if there's the slightest possibility that I could help someone going through the same thing or prevent it happening to someone else.

*****GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING*****

I'm having more trouble with surfacing memories. Instead of a single clear memory, they're more vague and jumbled. Images, sounds, smells in my head. Horrible, absolutely horrible body memories. I'm having memories of being gang-raped, so many men. Feeling their cocks penetrating me, forcing themselves down my throat until I gag or puke. Hearing their laughing and mocking words of when they were done with me. Laughing at me covered in blood and their cum, in my hair, on my face and body, covered in cum and spit. Feeling their cum and my blood coming out of me, and then being fucked again. Being strangled and beaten. Bruises and bloody noses. Being forced to be fucked on film and then have them laugh when they finish on my face. Fucking my ass and then in my mouth and throat and back to my ass and finishing inside me, blood and cum oozing out and down my thigh. Pain, so much pain I thought I would die. And endless array of rapes and torture. Passing out, only to wake to be fucked by a man I didn't know. Gross, disgusting men. Being bound by duct tape and forced to fuck on camera. Tape over my mouth to hide the screams of sheer terror and agony, only to have it ripped off so another man could fuck my mouth. The feeling of suffocation and choking to death only intesified their pleasure until they came in my throat. Sometimes they would only stop fucking my throat when I was just about to pass out. My body betrays me as he fucks me and jerks me off, only later to tell me I liked it and wanted it. Times where I couldn't shit for hours or days after the abuse and when I did there was blood, morwe blood to be spilled. Being fucked one after the other after the other, cum, caked on my face like a whore. The men calling me names... bitch, cunt, pussy, whore, slave, fuck-doll, slut. Neverending, fucking my body, mind and spirit until nothing was left, only a shredded, ripped up version of a person. I wasn't a person to these people, I was a fuck-toy, a whore to be used and then tossed aside like a coffee cup. I don't know if they were the same men or different, it didn't matter to me. Having to call myself names like whore, slut, bitch... reaffirming their power and control over me. No thought of time, time stood still, minutes were hours, hours were days, days were months... Trying to survive, to keep up my happy exterior, or else they would kill me or my family. Couldn't let myself slip up even once. Had to keep it a secret. Pleading with them to leave me alone, only to be fucked harder or hit into submission. I felt so degraded, humiliated, and traumatized. Having to put toilet paper in my underwear to keep from ruining another pair with blood and shit. They either laughed or got pissed when I wanted my mommy. Being fucked, raped, by two grown men at once, while others cheered on until I passed out. "Yeah, fuck him up man, fuck his ass hard!" "Swallow my cum your fucking slut, you good-for-nothing whore. Say it! Say, 'I'm a good-for-nothing whore!'" And I would say it in between sobs. I was only 9 fucking years old! How could grown men treat a small, 9 year old boy this way?! Why did they choose me?! I felt so dirty and used, like my life was over before it had even begun. These men destroyed me. Everything that made me, me, was destroyed. They took my humanity, and threw it aside likez a piece of trash. They treated me as an object for their pleasure. They treated me like I was good for nothing else than their abuse. They saw me as nothing more than a fuck-doll. Something to cum on/in. Something that could take their abuse and sexual and physical torture, and knew I wouldn't tell anyone. How could I? They said if I went to the police they would kill me and the police wouldn't believe me anyway. I was in fear for my life, so keeping my exterior and my life as normal and happy as possible was of utmost importance, as it was a matter of life and death, at least for me. And with their abuse against me, I knew that killing me wasn't outside of their range. They almost killed me numerous times. It actually amazes me that I'm alive and talking about this now. The very fact that I survived is simply astounding.
Jack on February 2, 2012 at 4:38 PM said:

I also have another memory to add. This one is extremely tough to read so please stay safe, but I have to get this out there.

I just had another memory come up. I was brought back to the house in the village near my town. I remember I was brought up to an upstairs bedroom. There were a lot of guys there, around 8, waiting for me. They ripped off my clothes and gang raped me. They Fucked me, one after the other and beat me. I was in so much pain I passed out. I remember them calling me a whore and asking if I liked it. I remember a few of the men ejaculated on my body. They were all naked when I came in. I just let them fuck me. I didn't even fight back. I remember there was a window and I just imagined I was outside, free from what I was going through. They fucked and raped me anally and orally. Sometimes at the same time, sometimes one after the other. They beat me, they raped me, and they called me every name in the book. I was in so much pain. They did everything and anything to me. They threatened they would do the same thing to my baby sister if I told anyone and then kill me. The pain was just so intense and the oral rape made me feel like I was going to die. It was so brutal. They gave me a bloody nose. I was humiliated, brutalized, degraded and horrifically abused. I remember one man at the back asked if the whore was enjoying himself. They said so many dehumanizing things to me. I felt like such a piece of meat. I felt like a piece of meat that had just been thrown into the lions den. They choked me and slapped me. They fucked me until blood and cum was coming out of me. I remember one man said I must be turned on cause I was so "wet". I had semen everywhere. I was thrown around from one guy to the next. I remember the pain was so intense that I lost control of my bodily functions. So I was just lying there in my own piss and shit, thinking I was going to die. I was screaming and yelling, telling them to stop, to leave me alone, pleading with them to not kill me. They laughed and enjoyed this. I know there is evil in this world, and I know those men where definitely evil men. They called me horrible names like slut, bitch, cunt. They laughed at my tears of pain. I thought I was done for. I cried because I didn't want to die this way. I remember praying to God to somehow get me out of this living Hell. I remember one man had a large penis and when he forced himself inside me I screamed and then passed out. When I came to, I was covered in blood, spit and semen was everywhere. I stumbled to a bathroom and cleaned myself up. There were large bruises on my legs and stomach. When I went downstairs there was the man there from cubs and he asked if I had a good time. I just told him to take me home. I believe this is one of the last events of my abuse. I remember it happened during the fall or possibly during an early winter thaw because there was no snow, but the leaves on the trees were gone.
Jack on February 2, 2012 at 4:37 PM said:

Thank you so much Kristen, so very, very much. I'll be honest, I was in a dark place a few nights ago. I tried calling everyone I knew, but no one picked up. I decided to come on here and I saw your comment. I must've read it over 100 times. It made me feel like I mattered and I was loved, despite the things I've gone through. Your comment got me through that tough night, and I thank you so much for that. Thank you!
Kristen on January 26, 2012 at 8:23 PM said:

Jack, this story is truly, truly heartbreaking. When I hear this my heart hurts so bad because I wish I had the power to take your pain away. Obviously that is not possible. What I hope is possible, is to show you that while people can be utterly horrible and evil, they can also be kind, loving and compassionate. I know it will be hard to learn to trust people, and even harder to love yourself and let people love you, but I truly admire your courage in sharing your story.

The hell you were put through is unfathomable. It is remarkable that you are still alive. Even more remarkable that you can share what you've been through. I hope that this is the beginning to the road of true healing. Please don't lose hope. You may have lost your sense of self but your words affirm that you are indeed a courageous man, and a survivor.

God bless you Jack. I send you all the love that this internet connection can handle.
Jack on January 8, 2012 at 10:53 AM said:

More memories, more pain. ***TRIGGERING***

I don't remember how I got there, but I remember being in a concrete room in the basement of a building. I'm pretty sure it was residential because there was a window in the top corner of the room, but it was blacked out with a curten. I remember there was an old mattress on the floor with a blanket on it, in the center of the room, and there was an old videocamera on a tripod. I remember there were about five men there. I think they were the same ones, but considering I don`t remember the faces or names of all my abusers I can`t be sure. Anyway, I remember they told me to strip and then wait on the bed. Then three men came in, and one was behind the camera while the other two raped me. I remember that one of them grabbed his belt and looped it around my neck and choked me with it while he raped me. I screamed from the pain, but at this point in my abuse, I didn`t try to fight back or anything. I was sobbing and I was really scared. They penetrated me both anally and orally. The pain was really intense. I remember I was grabbing at handfuls of the blanket and squeezing so hard my knuckels were white. It hurt so bad I wanted to throw up, but I knew that that would make them angry, and I did my best to keep it down. One of them finished inside me and the other finished on my body, all while the camera was still rolling. I was bleeding from the rape and the semen coming out of me made me feel so gross, disgusting and used. I felt like a total piece of meat. They called me horrible names. They asked me if I liked being fucked like a whore. They called me a cock sucking cunt, and a good for nothing whore. They called me names like slut, whore, fag, cunt, bitch etc etc. They called me their little fuck toy. They told me I`d be their slave forever. They the two men left and the other two came in. They tied me up in a really uncomfortable way with rope, and then they took turns raping me. One of them took a knife and held it to the side of my body and threatened to kill me and my family if I ever told anyone. The knife made a small cut because he pressed it into my skin. I was so scared, I was absolutely terrified. They both took turns fucking me and then they both finished in my mouth and made me swallow their semen. I remember there was semen dripping down my mouth and chin. Then before they left, the one man kicked me hard in the stomach, then left. My insides felt like they were on fire. It`s such an intense pain, it felt like they were shredding my insides with a knife. They took away who I was. I felt like all I was worth was abuse, and fucking men. They effectively destroyed and spit on the corpse of who I used to be, and left me with an empty shell of a person. I felt so degraded, inhuman, and terrified. I honestly thought I was going to die in that room. I remember I was bleeding for a few minutes after, but I managed to stop it. I was sobbing and screaming by the end because I was just so afraid and traumatized.

I remember times when I was still bleeding for a few hours after I was abused, so I would put toilet paper or kleenex in my underwear to keep from ruining too many pairs of underwear, and drawing attention. After I stopped bleeding, I would flush it down the toilet.

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Pro-reasonable regulation of the pornography industry for the health and safety of the performers.

*Please see FAQ for more information on all of the above.  Thank you!

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RESOURCES, FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS AND ALLIES:

NOTE: All those marked with * are friends, subscribers or followers of AntiPornography.org at Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or one of our other social networking websites, or have demonstrated support for our work otherwise, such as providing content for this website or linking to us or to one of our blogs and/or social networking projects. Also please note that the below list is a work in progress and that it is not complete. Please share any errors, omissions or suggestions here. Thank you!


WOMEN AND GIRLS FOCUSED RESOURCES:  

(For family, children, men and addiction focused resources, please scroll down.)

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ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY ORGANIZATIONS GROUPS AND WEBSITES:  

*Culture Reframed      Pornography FAQ      *ResistPorn Culture (UK)     No Porn Pledge     *Against Pornography

*Anti-Porn Feminists (Anti-Porn London)    Men Against Porn / Prostitution / Patriarchy     *The Violence of Pornography (Graphic) 

  *No Porn Northampton    Playboy: Talkin' Trash     *Girls Against Porn      Bin the Bunny      Stop Patriarchy

*JoinPornBusters YouTube Channel    The Price of Pleasure Documentary Film Website  

*Come Back From Your Fantasy (Sex-Positive Anti-Porn Feminist Tumblr, by young feminist Kelsey Ruane)

*Make Love Not Porn (Not technically anti-porn but shows differences of porn vs. real life.)

Somebody's Daughter   *Fight the New Drug  *pornTRUTH   

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'ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY ACTIVIST INDIVIDUALS, AUTHORS AND FILMMAKERS:  
 
 
 
 

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ANTI-PROSTITUTION/TRAFFICKING/SEXUAL EXPLOITATION/ABUSE SITES, ETC:
 
 
The above channels are AntiPornography.org pjts with MANY videos & helpful resources! 
 
 
 

Polaris Project     Breaking Free     SAGE (Standing Against Global Exploitation)  

The Lola Green Baldwin Foundation    Stop Demand Foundation  Genderberg

*SCASE (Scottish Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation)    Our Voices Matter   

*CAASE  (Chicago Coalition against Sexual Exploitation)  StopTraffickingDemand.com

*BSCC (Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition)  Beauty from Ashes   *Not for Sale Campaign 

New York Anti-Trafficking Coalition   Coalition for Action on Sexism and True Equality

*Is There Something I Can Do?  *StAT (Stand Against Trafficking)  *Stop Slavery Here

*Artists United for Social Justice  Freedom & Justice Center (For Prostitution Resources)

Donna M. Hughes, PhD  (Dignity List)   Chicago Coalition for the Homeless  

Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault    Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault

California Coalition Against Sexual Assault 

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FEMINIST, WOMEN & GIRLS ADVOCATE ORGANIZATIONS & GROUPS, ETC:

*Equality Now    *The F-Word    *Off Our Backs     *Women for Women International

     *Global Fund for Women  *London Feminist Network  *Feminist.com

*The National Organization for Women (NOW)    Feminist Majority Foundation  (FMF)

*Feminist Campus   Ms. Magazine  *Safe World 4 Women   *Women's Law Society

*WomensLaw.org   *U.S. Department of State's Office of Global Women's Issues  

*SIGI.org  *GlobalSister.org  FeministGifts.com  *The Date Safe Project  *VAWNet  

*No Statute of Limitations   *RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) 

*The National Domestic Violence Hotline  *Guard Yourself Now  *UK Feminista

Chicago Foundation for Women    *The Women's Media Center  The F-Files

*Free Girl Foundation  *Girls Fight Back   *The Girl Effect   *Girls for Gender Equity   

*Girl Fest Hawaii   *Rain & Thunder    Daughters of the Sun - A Youth Leader Project

*Biting Beaver  *No Excuses / No Mercy   *RadFem Hub
 
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MEN AGAINST SEXISM, VIOLENCE, SEXUAL EXPLOITATION  & ABUSE, ETC.

NOMAS (National Organization of Men Against Sexism )    *Men Can Stop Rape     *My Strength Campaign  

*Men Stopping Violence      *A Call to Men UK       *The White Ribbon Campaign (CA)  

  *Reclaiming Sex From XXX       *Byron Hurt       Jackson Katz   

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MEDIA, FREE SPEECH, & OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS & SITES:

 *Media Education Foundation Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press

Miboda Agency

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MESSAGE BOARDS AND FORUMS FOR HELP, INFORMATION & SUPPORT:

There are MANY anti-porn groups and pages at Facebook.
 
Just search GROUPS and PAGES for "anti-porn," "antiporn," "anti-pornography" & "antipornography" and similar terms.
 
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FAMILY, CHILDREN, MEN & ADDICTION FOCUSED RESOURCES:   

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ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS, AND WEBSITES: 

*National Center on Sexual Exploitation      *Pornography Harms      *Enough Is Enough      ProtectKids.com     

*Pornversations - College tour of an ex porn performer and an ex porn addict    Protect Young Minds

 National Law Center  for Children and Families    *Traffic Control, the Movie     Maryland Coalition Against Pornography   

It's Time We Talked      Utah Coalition Against Pornography       BraveHearts       Diamond Heart Foundation

Report Online Child Pornography/Exploitation at CyberTipLine.com or 1-800-843-5678

*Darkness 2 Light    *XXX Church    Department of Justice  ThePornTalk.com  

Social Costs of PornographyConference Videos   Papers   Report of Findings

*Safe Eyes (InternetSafety.com)  *Convenant Eyes   Internet Filter Review     *Women for Decency     AntiChildPorn.org

Say No to Pornography Pakistan - Let's Wage a War Against Pornography Blogspot

Canadians Addressing Sexual Exploitation  (C.A.S.E.) (Canada)

CANADA - List of other anti-pornography and related Canadian organizations

(Scroll down on above link to get to the list of organizations)

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ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY ACTIVIST INDIVIDUALS, AUTHORS, AND THERAPISTS:  

*Pat Trueman  (Founder of Pornography Harms) Pamela Paul  (Author of "Pornified")

Dr. Jill C. Manning (Author:"What's the Big Deal about Pornography? A Guide for the Internet Generation")

Dr. Judith Reisman   *Dr. Robi Sonderegger

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ANTI-PROSTITUTION/TRAFFICKING/SEXUAL EXPLOITATION/ABUSE SITES, ETC:  

*Shared Hope International     Free the Slaves

*IJM Institute (International Justice Mission)   *Global Centurion   *Live2free

*ECPAT - USA (End Child Prostitution & Trafficking)  *Beyond Borders (ECPATCanada)

*T-Stop (Texas Sex Trafficking Obliteration Project)   *Love146 NYC Task Force

*End Slavery NT (End Slavery in Tennessee and Beyond)   *Chab Dai Coalition

*Justice and Care (South Asia)  *Rock Against Slavery   End Demand

Overexposed, the Movie   Call and Response, the Movie    *Nowhere2Hide

CASEY (Community Against Sexual Exploitation of Youth. Canada)   

 
 

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OTHER RELATED ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS, WEBSITES & CAUSES:

*Parents Television Council   *Web Wise Kids   *InternetSafety.com

*ClearInternational   *Cyber Safety Book  (Ken Knapton)   *Optenet PC

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PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION AND COMPULSION HELP AND SUPPORT:  

*PornAddictionHelp YouTube Channel - AntiPornography.org project with MANY videos & resources!

*Inner Gold    *Fight the New Drug   *Compulsion Solutions   The Mindful Habit

*Porn Game Over    MeadowCrest   Your Brain on Porn    HealthySex.com (Wendy Maltz)   Reboot Nation

Sexual Recovery Institute    *Just Be Well    *No-Porn.com  No-Porn.com Message Board

*Impulse Treatment Center (Sex Addict Treatment - Don L. Matthews)   *Covenant Eyes   *Stepping Inward

*Mindful Recovery   My Porn Addiction Story - Porn Addiction Help from a Former Addict

Porn Addicts Anonymous  Porn & Relationships Q&A (By "Porn Trap's'" Wendy Maltz)  Addicted to Internet Porn

Porn Addict Hubby  (Relationship Rescue for Wives & Girlfriends of Internet Porn Addicts)

Partners of Sex Addicts Resource Center    The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH)

Don't Reward Bad Behaviour - Guidance for Partners of Porn Addicts  Desert Solace

Petra Bueskens of PPMD Therapy (Australia)   PPMD Therapy Facebook   Guilty Pleasure

QuitPorn Group Text Hotline - "To become a member and join our group text community, start by texting QUITPORN to 23559"  Twitter: @QuitPornHotline  YouTube: QuitPornTextHotline

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LOOKING FOR A SEX OR PORN ADDICTION THERAPIST OR COUNSELOR? 

Check out this very helpful directory of over 1,000 entries in the United States!

http://www.abattleplan.com/counselors-therapists-sex-addiction-directory/

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ACCOUNTABILITY SOFTWARE:

Saavi Accountability -- The only online accountability program that works with all online addictions. It is also the only program that sends notifications instantly via text message to an accountability partner so that they can be supportive when an individual needs it the most at the point of weakness, while they are accessing the online content. The software was created by a young man (26) who overcame his addiction and is trying to help others.  

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ADDICTION MESSAGE BOARDS & DISCUSSION FORUMS FOR HELP & SUPPORT:

No-Porn.com Message Board

Porn Addict Hubby Discussion Board  (For Wives & Girlfriends of Internet Porn Addicts)

NOTE: There are MANY anti-porn and porn addiciton discussion groups and pages at Facebook.

Just search GROUPS and PAGES for "porn addiction", "pornography addiction", "sex addiction", "anti-porn," "antiporn," "anti-pornography" & "antipornography"

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For more than 50 personal stories documenting the harms of compulsive and/or excessive pornography use and/or pornography addiction please see our "Porn Harm Stories" page.  Thank you.

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NEED HELP WITH PORN ADDICTION?

CHECK OUT THE MINDFUL HABIT!

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OTHER HELPFUL FAQs & Q&As: (By other anti-pornography organizations, etc) 

*Gail Dines Q&A     *Against Pornography FAQ    Pornography FAQ - By Pro-feminist Michael Lovan

  *Shelley Lubben Q&A (Ex-Porn Star)    Prostitution FAQ at Genderberg      Fight the New Drug FAQ   

(Note: The No Porn Northampton FAQ is in the bottom half of their sidebar. In addition to the usual questions about pornography it addresses questions and concerns about activism against sexually oriented businesses such as "adult bookstores.")

AntiPornography.org's "Frequently Asked Questions & Responses to Pro-Pornography Arguments"

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Shared Hope International specifically focuses on fighting the demand for commercial sexual exploitaiton, including addressing pornography as a very significant demand factor for sex trafficking. 

Please see their excellent report on this issue:

Pornography: Creating Demand for International Sex Trafficking

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"Pornography is a marketing device for sex trafficking: It normalizes degradation and violence as acceptable and even inevitable parts of sex, and uses the bodies of real women and children as objects. The difference between pornography and erotica is clear in the roots of the words themselves -- porne means females slaves, eros means love -- so pornography, like rape, is about violence and domination, not sex. Millions of lives depend on our ability to separate pornography from erotica, and to disentangle violence from sexuality."

Gloria Steinem, 2006

For information about Gloria Steinem's important work of fighting against the harms of pornography, sex trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, including videos and an audio interview, please see our page on Gloria Steinem. Click here.

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For more information on how pornography fuels prostitution and sex trafficking, please see our page on Pornography and Trafficking.  Click here.  Thank you!

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