NCOSE, Enemy of Free Americans

[jaF0]

The NCOSE is an anti-pornography group. It was initially founded by clergymen in 1962 under the name Morality in Media (MIM). MIM led numerous protests against adult shops, the sale of sex toys and other erotic media like the 1979 film Caligula and Madonna's 1992 book Sex.
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In the '90s, MIM also aligned with religious-right groups to push abstinence-only sexual education programs in schools and a boycott against Disney. The groups opposed Disney for distributing non-children's films under its Miramax film label and for extending employee benefits to LGBTQ workers' same-sex partners.

In 2015, MIM reorganized as the NCOSE. The NCOSE drafted a Utah resolution declaring pornography as a public health crisis. Fifteen other states passed resolutions using similar language. The NCOSE has been accused by the anti-sex trafficking group, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, of "use misleading 'research reports' to fabricate a false medical consensus about the harms of pornography."

The NCOSE has also opposed the legalization of sex work, in opposition to the pro-legalization stance of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the World Health Organization. The three aforementioned organizations argue that sex work criminalization increases exploitation, abuse and violence against sex workers.

The NCOSE's current president, Patrick A. Trueman, is a lawyer dubbed a "porn war veteran" by the American Bar Association Journal. Trueman has previously worked for the anti-LGBTQ organizations, the American Family Association and the Family Research Council.


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[Champakian]

This is the first that I've heard of it.


They sound about as powerful and effective as the Rosicrucians...

 

[jomar]

Sounds like a group reaction formation.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

Groups like this hold little political power BUT what they do is put pressure on credit card companies to get them to not allow their cards to be used to purchase porn. This has been very effective, and it’s likely that’s at least one of the reasons OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit material.

Loss of credit card processing is the ONLY reason OF (and pornhub) change. How else are they going to make money? The issue for the CC companies is that they are potentially liable if they process a transaction that was later determined to trafficking. Why would a CC company want that risk?