Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) is the nation’s largest organization empowering girls and young women, ages 12-21, who have experienced sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth. GEMS’ vision is to end the commercial exploitation and trafficking of children. We believe that all young women have great beauty and worth, and the potential for future ...
<< MORE >>Today, the Federal Trade Commission released the results of a congressionally mandated report looking into incidence of sexually and violently explicit content in online virtual worlds. Its Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks study, a nine-month investigation led by FTC attorney Phyllis H. Marcus, was critical but did offer recommendations to virtual world operators.
The FTC found that despite the ...
<< MORE >>Posted Oct 7th 2009 01:00PM by Mark Kernes -
PHILADELPHIA - Free Speech Coalition (FSC), the trade organization of the adult entertainment industry, today filed its most comprehensive challenge yet to 18 U.S.C. 2257 and 2257A, the federal
recordkeeping and labeling laws. The suit is being filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in part because of the positive outcomes experienced in such First
Amendment-related suits as the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act.
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