Feb 19, 2010 / 02:43 am
A new website called Pornography Harms has been launched to provide access to credible, peer-reviewed research documenting the ill effects of pornography. The site was created by Patrick Trueman, a former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
Trueman described the site as “a one-stop location for sound research, news articles and opinion pieces” discussing the harmful effects of pornography.
“Since the advent of the internet, pornography has flooded homes, businesses, public libraries, and even schools. The results have been devastating to the social and family fabric of America," Trueman added.
He said that for nearly two decades a large segment of American children have had easy access to internet pornography. The latest trend of children producing and distributing pornographic images via cell phone, called “sexting,” may be an outgrowth of the regular viewing of internet pornography.