Culture Reframed is a nonprofit organization formed in 2015 to address the negative effects of pornography on young people.[1] It was born from Stop Porn Culture, an international, feminist,anti-pornography organization.[2]
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, concurrent with the rapid growth of theInternet and the increased accessibility topornography that it provided,feminists in the U.S. began to organize to discuss the proliferation of pornography and of "violence associated with its production and consumption". Some of the discussion participants decided to build a national movement to address the harms of the pornography industry. Some developed an updated version of similar 1970sslide shows to be used as an educational tool and to inspire action against thepornification (orsexualization) of culture. These efforts led to the 2008 creation of Stop Porn Culture.[3][4]
Thenonprofit Culture Reframed was born in 2015 whenGail Dines - afounder of Stop Porn Culture - and other public health experts and concerned scientists organized to study the impact of porn onyouth and to help parents and educators mitigate its damaging influences.[1]
The Culture Reframed mission is stated in a single sentence: "We work to stop the emotional, behavioral, and sexual harms of pornography to children and youth."[1]
The group says that about one third of 12-year-old children have seen - often unexpectedly - explicit,hardcore porn. This, they say, undermines social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. They say parents and caregivers can help children "build resilience and resistance to hypersexualized media and porn."[5]
Free courses on its website include one for educators, one for parents oftweens, and one for parents of teens.[6][7] The website offersfact sheets and reports, and its online academic library serves as a clearinghouse for hundreds ofpeer-reviewed articles.[8]
Stop Porn Culture was created in 2008[4] to challenge "an increasingly pornographic pop culture" and the exploitation, coercion, and violence of the porn industry itself.[9] Much of this work was done online through lecture videos and social media work as well as through workshops and conferences for feminist slideshow training.[10] It was an unpaid organization and recruited through a volunteer and internship program focused on marketing, digital writing, video editing, and social media projects.[11]
In 2013, Stop Porn Culture started a petition against the journalPorn Studies, a first-of-its-kind, peer-reviewed publication focused on porn studies. Stop Porn Culture's co-founder Dines claimed that the journal had a pro-porn bias, a claim that the journal denied.[12]
In 2014,Media Education Foundation produced a documentary titled "Pornland: How the Porn Industry Has Hijacked Our Sexuality". Promoted on the Stop Porn Culture website, it was based on a 2010 book by Dines and was described as "an ideal introduction to the core arguments of the feminist anti-pornography movement."[13]
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