9 days before the content subscription service OnlyFans announced its Pornography will be banned soon, 102 members Congress Signed a letter to Ministry of Justice (Ministry of Justice). The August 10 letter cited data from the National Center for Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), a religious right-wing anti-pornography organization.
The letter pointed out that NCOSE has “listed OnlyFans as one of the main contributors to linear exploitation in the United States.” The letter also echoes the NSCE’s assertion that OnlyFans has “become a major market for the sale of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the United States and for soliciting sexual intercourse with minors.”
The letter requested the Ministry of Justice to investigate the CSAM content of the platform, especially content involving missing children. It also asked DOJ to evaluate the platform’s anti-CSAM measures and the use of its direct messaging function to promote prostitution.
The letter said that in the past two years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) stated that it has been aware of 10 cases of missing children related to OnlyFans content. In addition, NCMEC linked 80 missing child cases to OnlyFans content.
The NCOSE website also raised similar concerns about the intersection of the platform and sex work. In fact, it includes OnlyFans in its dirty twelve list, which is an annual list of “mainstream facilitators of sexual exploitation.”Its 2021 list includes Netflix, GoogleChromebook laptop and EBSCO, an academic database.
There is also a petition on the NSCOSE website in which people can also ask the DOJ to investigate OnlyFans.
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NCOSE is an anti-pornography group. It was originally founded by the clergy in 1962 under the name of Media Ethics (MIM). MIM has led numerous protests against adult goods stores, sex toy sales, and other pornographic media (such as the 1979 movie) Caligula And Madonna’s 1992 book gender.
In the 1990s, MIM also formed alliances with religious right-wing groups to promote abstinence-only sex education programs in schools, and resisted Disney. Opposing groups Disney Distribute non-children movies under the Miramax movie label, and extend employee benefits to LGBTQ workers’ same-sex couples.
In 2015, MIM was reorganized into NCOSE. NCOSE drafted a resolution in Utah declaring pornography as a public health crisis. The other 15 states passed resolutions using similar language. NCOSE was accused by the anti-sex trade organization Global Anti-Trafficking in Women’s Coalition for “using misleading’research reports’ to fabricate false medical consensus on the harm of pornography.”
NCOSE also opposes the legalization of sex work and the support of legalization by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the World Health Organization. The above three organizations believe that criminalizing sex work will increase the exploitation, abuse and violence of sex workers.
Patrick A. Trueman, the current chairman of NCOSE, is a lawyer and is referred to as a “pornographic veteran” by NCOSE. American Bar Association Journal. Trueman previously worked for anti-LGBTQ organizations, the American Family Association, and the Family Research Council.
In April 2021, a Pornhub spokesperson told vice The magazine stated that NCOSE conflated sex work with child sex trafficking “attracted and mobilized…extremists,” including QAnon conspiracy theorists.
Followers of QAnon posted on the right-wing social network Gab, advocating the murder of “prostitutes, pimps,” transgender people, and executives of porn streaming sites Porn center. NSOCE had previously advocated a campaign against PornHub as a source of suspected child trafficking and pornography.
Weekly newspaper Contacted NSOCE for comments.
