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The content of the conference may contain triggering and/or sensitive material. If you feel triggered during the event, please know we have resources available to support you. We also recommend that attendees be aged 18 and above.
Conference Speakers
We are thrilled to confirm a diverse lineup of expert speakers, including:
Gail Dines
Growing up in a Porn Culture: Challenges and Solutions.
Today, online porn has become a primary source of sex education for young people around the world. This presentation will explore the mainstream violent content of the most popular pornography sites accessed by young people, and the ways pornography causes social, emotional, sexual, and cognitive harms to young people. Also discussed are the ways we can counter the harms through a public health approach.
Biography
Dr. Gail Dines, a Professor Emerita of Sociology, has been researching and writing about the porn industry for well over thirty years. She is a Dr. Gail Dines, a Professor Emerita of Sociology, has been researching and writing about the porn industry for well over thirty years. She is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, and author of numerous books and articles. Her latest book, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, has been translated into five languages.
Dr. Dines is the founder and president of the non-profit, Culture Reframed. Dedicated to building resilience and resistance in children and youth to the harms of a hypersexualized and pornified society, Culture Reframed develops cutting-edge educational programs that promote healthy development, relationships, and sexuality.
Dr. Lucie Moore
If it’s illegal offline, it should be illegal online: why we need a change in the law.
In the UK, it is against the law to supply pornographic material depicting and/or promoting child sexual abuse, incest, trafficking, torture and harmful sexual acts. Except online of course, where no equivalent standard exists. Learn about how we got here, why the status quo is so damaging, and how you can be part of sorting this mess out.
Biography
Dr Lucie Moore is the Chief Executive of CEASE, a human rights charity, working to dismantle the cultural and commercial drivers of sexual exploitation. Her professional and voluntary work in the field has included research, advocacy and direct support for survivors of sexual harm. She was Senior Research Fellow at the Safer Young Lives Centre, University of Bedfordshire and a founding member of Faiths Against Child Sexual Exploitation. Lucie also spent ten years as Chair of Trustees and a front-line volunteer in Azalea, a charity supporting women exploited through prostitution.
Benjamin Dunks
Intimacy – The alternative to pornography and how we stop demonising our boys.
Ben will be talking about what the alternative to porn can be for young men, where their intimate lives can indeed be intimate, and porn as teacher and guide about sex becomes redundant. Ben will also be talking about how demonising our boys for watching porn is unhelpful, and open and honest conversations about what good sex is, is a vital and central part of safe sex.
Biography
Benjamin Dunks is a Plymouth based writer, artist and educator. In July of 2022 he released his book ‘Intimacy: A guide for young men about sex.’, as a guide to help young men counter the impact of pornography in their lives and to begin to address the increasing tide of sexual assault against young women. Ben has worked for 30 years in the arts and education, working with thousands of students from groups as diverse as nursery pupils to medical students and everyone in between.
Lousie Barraclough
In this talk Louise will share evidence from the ‘frontline’ on the scale and nature of what is known in SARC and the growing understanding of the influence of online pornography on sexual violence, the potential impact on criminal justice outcomes, wider misogyny and rape culture.
Biography
Louise Barraclough is the Lead Nurse and Safeguarding Lead for Devon & Cornwall Sexual Assault Referral Centres, Paediatric and Adult Services.
Her specialist interests and research focus on all forms of Violence Against Women and Children, particularly Sexual Violence and Exploitation. She works with multi-agency partners, Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Safeguarding Adults Boards around root causes of VAWG and current strategic frameworks and legislation that determine systemic and agency responses. Her research on the link between pornography and Harmful Sexual Behaviour in U18s was used as part of the development of the Online Safety Act and she is currently working with the coalition responding to the call for evidence for the upcoming UK Gov Pornography Review.
Jamie Stephenson
Tales from the ‘treatment’ room – working with men who have sexually harmed and what they tell us about their use of pornography/Secondary tier prevention of child abuse in Plymouth – a feasibility study.
This short presentation will look at narratives from men convicted of sexual harm who are involved in treatment programmes and how legal pornography may have contributed to their harmful behaviour. Secondly, it will highlight a current feasibility study for a community prevention service model in Plymouth for people who are having worrying sexual thoughts and feelings about children, but have not moved to any form of illegal behaviour.
Biography
Jamie has 25 years’ experience and expertise in working with adults with a history of offending in prisons and the community, with a specialism in the assessment and treatment of those who sexually harm. He has worked in a variety of roles and across a range of settings including charitable, third sector and statutory organisations including probation, NSPCC and Ahimsa Safer Families. He currently works as a coordinator for Circles South West on a range of projects with men who have sexually harmed and is also a probation officer based in Plymouth delivering treatment programmes for men with sexual convictions.
Lorraine Questiaux
Legal definition and legal consequences of pornography.
Biography
Lorraine Questiaux is a lawyer at the Paris Bar. A feminist who specialises in litigations regarding Women’s Rights and Sexual Violence.
Naomi Cooper
With STIs increasing, does pornography play a role? Exploring the effect of pornography consumption on sexual health including possible attitudes to condom use, STI transmission and testing. How do certain sex acts make transmission more likely? How do we encourage condom use when imagery doesn’t make it a norm?
Biography
Naomi has worked with vulnerable young people in residential and community settings for a number of years and is currently the lead sexual health trainer and a community HIV/sexual health prevention worker for the Eddystone Trust, a sexual health charity in the south west. Having recently developed and delivered a series of successful workshops for students, parents, teachers/lecturers, other professionals and police, Naomi has a particular interest in the effect of an ever growing digital world on sexual behaviour, relationships and sexual health.
Melissa Farley
Pornography has been separated from prostitution so that pornpimps can increase their profits. But new research shows that it’s not possible to separate porn from prostitution. Using quotes from interviewees, I’ll discuss the harms caused by pornography production, how all pimps today are pornpimps, how organized crime and banks are involved, and the lack of consent in pornography production.
Biography
Melissa Farley is a feminist psychologist who has authored or co-authored 54 peer-reviewed articles on trauma, healthcare, prostitution, pornography, and trafficking, and 2 books, Prostitution, Trafficking & Traumatic Stress(2004) and Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections (2007). Her research and publications have been used by governments in many countries for education and policy development on prostitution and trafficking. Farley founded Prostitution Research & Education www.prostitutionresearch.com, a 25 year-old non-profit research institute which conducts original research and also offers educational materials by survivors and other experts who contribute to the movement to abolish prostitution.
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