(More on NCOSE in "McDowell, Z. J., & Tiidenberg, K. (2023). The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics. Convergence, 29(6), 1609-1623. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231193694) Founded by 3 Clergymen (1962)

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• NCOSE's About Page (as of 2023) States:

  • "Using every 'social media' tactic of the era, Morality in Media became the beacon of hope and light for those concerned about the insidious trend toward normalization of sexual exploitation in American culture. It worked relentlessly to educate the public about the harms of pornography and bring about the robust enforcement of federal obscenity laws. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the producers and distributors of pornography across the country found themselves under federal prosecution...But what MIM’s leaders, and most others, could not foresee was the rise of the Internet... Indeed, porn-free spaces are increasingly hard to find. From television, public libraries, public and private schools, home computers, and handheld devices, the Internet and streaming capabilities have cast the shadow of pornography far and wide...We see that pornography is linked to sexual violence and is used to groom children for sexual abuse. We know that demand for commercial sex fuels prostitution and, therefore, sex trafficking as well. The connections go on and on....Our decades’ long battle against pornography, has also shown us that like the tobacco industry, the pornography industry has created a public health crisis. However, despite tobacco’s former widespread use and acceptance in American culture, once its harms became apparent, society took action and adopted dramatic new policies to limit the harmful effects of smoking. Similarly we believe that people need to be protected from pornography exposure and made aware of the risks associated with its use."

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The NCOSE Board Members affiliations & beliefs (as of 2023):

• Executive Director of NCOSE is:

  • Executive director of 'Americans United for Life' (Founded in 1971, the group opposes abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, and certain contraceptive methods. The group has been influential in the spread of so-called "Heartbeat" legislation across a number of American states.)

  • Legal counsel for 'The Family Research Council' which is designated a Hate Group by the SPLC for it's anti-LGBTQ+ views which have included labeling LGBTQ+ people pedophiles.

  • Director of Affairs for 'The American Family Association': A Christian Fundamentalist organization also listed as a hate group by the SPLC

• A Christian Clinic owner:

  • their site includes links to 'Focus on the Family'. This site contains numerous materials to treat "transgenderism": "The growing transgender movement fights against God’s design for male and female"

• The President of an app designed to monitor porn use on the web:

  • (visible by a parent, spouse or friend) to prevent people from viewing pornography.​

• A writer for 'The Catholic Thing':

  • Portion of a 2019 article reads "We fast-forward to our own day, and we encounter the irony of a false idea turning on itself.  In the awful unfolding of the “culture war,” abortion has been deeply planted in the law, along now with same-sex marriage, and the drive toward “transgenderism.”"​

• A Company Chairman who is an avid contributor to Republican politicians

• A College Dean to a Private Christian University who believes sexual content in video games leads to assaults​

• A University Professor who considers himself "Un-Woke" and "Un-Cancelable"; holds multiple anti-LGBTQ+ views

• National Regent of Catholic Daughters of America:

  • "As Catholic Daughters and as citizens, we have the obligation and the power to actively support patriotism."

• A College Professor of Gender and Women's studies who wrote:

  • an anti-trans manifesto which included "The trans-sex fantasy has imagined—and is enacting—a world in which how a man feels is more real than his actual reality. And now the fantasy has the weight of the federal government behind it."

• A Doctor who stated:

  • "Internet pornography makes a perfect learning environment for the pornification of culture: It starts with permission-giving beliefs: “What I’m doing is normal, and everybody is doing it.” It miseducates about sex: it says it’s not about intimacy, caring, child-creation, etc. Instead, Internet pornography is about designer sex–the “perfect” and always-available bodies." ... "women exposed to porn are also trained that rape isn’t such a bad crime, and are more likely to accept rape myths. They reduce support for the women’s liberation movement. They’re more critical about their bodies and more likely to be victims of rape" ... "Porn is sex education for many people, and they’re not learning the beauty of the way God designed it."

• A Bishop and Writer for a Religious Journal:

  • "It is about time that we as a nation finally admit to ourselves that pornography is not some benign “entertainment” that affects only those who use or produce it. In the era of rampant second-hand smoke which I experienced as a young adult, there were countless people who discouraged any effort to define carcinogenic smoke as a “public health crisis”."Four False Arguments1. “There are no victims, so
    no one is being harmed.: Pornography is not a private, victimless sin. It does serious harm to many people, including the person viewing it." "Pornography is not a healthy way to cope with temptation, nor a healthy way to relax. It feeds and
    perverts sexual desire, closing the user in on himself" "Women certainly have a critical role in this fight and should take a stance of absolute intolerance toward pornography, but in a particular way men need to be recalled to their God-given role as protectors of their families and of society if we are to overcome it."

• A Former US State Attorney who argued this about Transgender bathroom bills: "“If you have a sex stereotype that you want to be like that day you just simply are that you identify that and that gives you the right to walk into a women’s restroom—and we’re the odd ones here?”"

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NCOSE, Extremism, and Judith Reisman:

[NCOSE Endorses Reisman who is known to be anti-LGBTQ+, firmly anti-trans, and wishes for America to return to the Founding Fathers' "Judeo Christian Worldview"]:

• Quotes From Reisman's (2016) Work: 'The Origins of the Transgender Phenomenon: The Challenge and Opportunity for Training Lawyers, Judges and Policy Makers in the Historicity of Alfred Kinsey’s Pansexual Worldview':

• "With the pedophile, bi/homosexual Kinseyan principle that homosexuality was an attribute of personhood now ensconced in the Supreme Court precedent, the stage was set for the next phase, i.e., dismantling marriage as an archaic, discriminatory institution that did not conform to the new, pansexual paradigm."

• "Furthermore, advocates such as the late Dr. John Money, founder of the gender reassignment clinic at Johns Hopkins University, are urging an end to age of consent, which would lead to the de-criminalization of pedophilia and incest."​

• "If gender identity becomes part of non-discrimination policies, the protection accorded by sex separate bathrooms, locker rooms and similar private places will be removed, leaving women and children vulnerable to predators who will now have license to enter their private spaces with impunity. Instances of cross-dressing men entering into women’s spaces illustrate how making such conduct acceptable could traumatize women and children. News report show the extent of the problem of women and girls being victimized even before gender identity becomes part of non-discrimination policies."

• Other Quotes from Articles Promoted by Reisman's website:

  • (2012) 50 Shades of Grey - Pedophilia Hiding In Plain Sight

    • "When you read it, look for the signs. They are all there. The female character has no sexual experience. None. She is given the age of 21, but that age is itself a cover. Her true emotional age is much-much younger. She has never even masturbated. She has never even experienced an orgasm. That alone is one of the greatest attractions to the pedophile. That is the psychology of that kind of act. You get off on taking purity." ... "There is spanking and the use of Baby oil. Why baby oil? Think about it." ... "...she is absolutely convinced the book is purposely advocating the raping of a child and attempting to normalize that atrocity." ... "We are reading child pornography. Remove the false age of the girl, which has no basis in reality, and what we are actually reading is the abuse of a little girl." ... "Are women actually that shallow? Yes, we can be. But women, the vast majority of us, are not people who knowingly condone the sexual abuse of children. We do not condone in any way, the horror that is pedophilia. Sadly though, that is exactly what is happening with the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey.  It's a pedophilia con."​

  • (2015) 'The Harm Caused by Comprehensive Sexuality Education':

    • "every child or young person who views sexually explicit images suffers real harm."[27] This harm is irreversible on a child's brain." ... "President Obama, however, endorsed teaching "medically accurate, age-appropriate, and responsible sex education" in kindergarten as "the right thing to do."[33] Who determines what is age-appropriate for a kindergartener? Planned Parenthood? Local school boards? The federal government? Since schools have "obscenity exemptions," schools can expose children to sexually explicit material and deem it "age-appropriate" by their own standards."

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Quotes from NCOSE Articles Discussing The (Alleged) Dangers of Pornography:

• (2009) (How the proliferation of adult pornography contributes to sexual exploitation of children)

• [An article linking the expression of adult sexuality amongst adults to enabling pedophilia. lack of evidence, personal assumptions, because minors may access something meant for adults it should be barred:]

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• Claims Made:

  • Perpetrators use adult pornography to groom their victims.

  • For many perpetrators there is a progression from viewing adult pornography to viewing child pornography.

  • Children imitate behavior they view in adult pornography with other children.

  • Perpetrators use adult pornography to sexually arouse themselves.

  • Addiction to adult pornography destroys marriages, and children raised in one-
    parent households are more likely to be sexually exploited.

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• “For the most part, however, these same…entities have turned a blind eye towards the explosion of hardcore adult pornography on the Internet and elsewhere…[T]hose who fight sexual exploitation of children but who turn their backs to the adult pornography problem are making a tragic mistake.” ... "He explains why it is a mistake for the Justice Department and FBI to focus their energies almost exclusively on child molesters and child pornography because of limited resources. “In the first place,” he writes, “the explosion of hardcore adult pornography is contributing to sexual exploitation of children in various ways. In the second place, children are harmed not just by predators; they are also harmed by exposure to hardcore adult pornography…In the third place…a frequent result of a successful federal obscenity prosecution is a significant fine and/or forfeiture of property…[which] can offset in whole or part the cost of these cases. In the fourth place…it isn’t just children who are harmed by hardcore adult pornography.”

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• ['Minor Coded' rhetoric:] "Mr. Peters observes that while hardcore adult pornography does not depict actual children, it does “include hardcore depictions of sex with persons who look like children"

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• [lack of evidence, personal assumptions, because minors may access something meant for adults it should be barred:] “Pornography defenders overlook at least three factors. First, much if not most hardcore adult pornography is consumed by a relatively small percentage of individuals who are addicted to it. Second, just because a person experiments with hardcore adult pornography for a period of time or on occasion succumbs to the temptation to view it does not mean he or she approves of what is viewed, especially when hardcore adult pornographers promote their products aggressively…Third, many visitors to ‘adult websites’ are minors.”

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