Hot off the press from Current Addiction Reports! Important new paper by The Reward Foundation. Read and share with this link https://rdcu.be/cxquO. This is what governments around the world need to be aware of to help deal with the increasing …

In this guest blog by our colleague John Carr brings us some good news on the latest moves from Apple which will help protect children from sexual exploitation on the internet. You can find all of John’s blogs at Desiderata. …

We were delighted to receive contact from Dr Marshall Ballantine-Jones PhD from Australia 2 weeks ago to which he generously attached a copy of his PhD thesis. Intrigued by his story, we followed up with a Zoom discussion a few days …

It is with the greatest of sadness that we announce the death of our beloved friend and colleague, Gary Wilson. He passed away on 20th May 2021 as a result of complications due to Lyme’s disease. He leaves behind his …

In the run up to the general election in 2019, the UK government shelved Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 a week before its due implementation date. This was the long-awaited age verification legislation.This meant that the promised …

It was a shock to hear a 14-year-old schoolgirl announce to us she was “into kink”. We were in front of 20 other young people in a talk about the potential risks around internet porn. That was already three years …

It’s a sad day when young people have to take matters into their own hands to protect themselves with anti-rape websites like Everyone’s Invited. Failure of the government to act to restrict access to commercial porn sites by children and …

The world’s largest survey on sexual health in 2019 established that around 20% of men between 15-89 years old watch more porn than they want to. Most of us, to some degree, repeat some behaviors that we know are harmful …

This guest blog is by John Carr, one of the world’s leading authorities on children’s and young people’s use of the internet and associated new technologies. In it he sets out the likely (devastating) impact of Facebook’s proposal to encrypt …