Cyber sex preo-rf-v5

CyberSex
Reasonable Faith
(Tom Daly 2020)
The way the world is.
There are challenges that are not “distant”

Motivation / Goals
• To shine light areas of life that are sometimes (extremely) dark and with bad consequences.
• To raise awareness of how we are allowing technology to shape us, to form us
• To make a “shout out” to culture , to “our youth” and to our “Churches” that being formed as
we are by technology is a big deal.
• To encourage discussions in-spite of and because of the “yuk” or “uncomfortable factor”
• To provide, research and evidence for the pressing nature of this discussion.

Agenda
1. CyberSex definition
2. CyberSex Landscape overview
3. CyberSex detailed look at some aspects
4. CyberSex & the Church
5. Summary/Conclusion

CyberSex
Wikipedia:
Cybersex, also called computer sex, Internet sex, netsex and,
colloquially, cyber or cybering, is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more people
connected remotely via computer network
Additionally:
Any computer technology, application or service that directly enables, influences or
affects human sexual activity and relationships.

CyberSex – Landscape
Virtual Reality/Augmented
Reality Porn
RPG
2nd life
WoW
Headsets/devices
High Speed Internet Porn
Anim(ated)
Revenge Porn
Child Sexual
Exploitation
Material
(CEM)
Recorded/stored
Online Sexual
Exploitation
of Children
(OSEC)
live stream
Sex trafficking
Deep fakes
AI Porn
AI
Generated Porn
DeepFake
Revenge Porn
Sex slavery
Austrac
BitCoin / BlockChain
Normalisation of
violence against
women
Dating Apps
Cheating
Apps
Sexting / Sextortion
Encryption
Social Media Platforms
AI
Sex Robots
Grooming

Dating Apps
Changed/ing how we meet
potentially who we meet :-
• Upgrading
• Increased “pace”
• Hook-ups
• “relies on behavioural
matching technology”
(but then provides photos ? )
• Money (our relationships
are big business)
• (claim) increasing use of AI

Dating apps use 2017 (USA data)
https://www.barna.com/research/trends-redefining-romance-today/

Cheating Sites / Apps
https://www.thetalko.com/12-cheating-apps-you-dont-
want-to-find-on-his-phone
Examples.
• Nosy Trap
• hide images, c.f. password catch, takes photo
of anyone checking your phone
• Private Photo (appears as a calculator ,but hides
images)
• Fox Private Message: messages destruct or destruct
with a shake of the phone
• Dead Tone : replies with a dead tone to listed
numbers, used for ensuring ex affairs can’t contact
your phone.
• Tinder,Ashley Maddision etc

… Fully 62 percent of teens and young
adults say they have received a nude
image—generally from a boyfriend or
girlfriend. Forty percent have sent a
nude image—again, usually to a
boyfriend or girlfriend.
Sexting
…Porn 2.0 is a new step in pornography because it is
personal. And it is a particularly dangerous step because it
invites us to not only sexualize our relationships—which
we’ve already been doing for a plenty long time—it also
invites us to disembody and therefore detach from our
relationships.To, in short, objectify them.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-03/spike-reports-esafety-commissioner-coronavirus-shutdown/12314442
"This is a combination of what you might call sexting
gone wrong, people relying on more digital intimacy
tools to share affection, love, sexual gratification, rather
than meeting physically in person during lockdown,” –
eSaftey commisioner
"But we've also seen a huge sextortion
scam that has surged.
"It comes in the form of an email that
scares people into paying cryptocurrency
payments with the threat they've hacked
into their computer because they have a
password compromised in an earlier data
breach."
The Federal Government is planning to
introduce a new Online Safety Act to
Parliament later this year and says it will also
include a new Adult Cyber Abuse scheme.
Sextortion

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2007/0
7/03/home-broadband-adoption-2007/
High Speed Internet availability
Somewhere around 2007
Smartphones/wifi/Streaming

Porn pervasiveness
• 42B visits
• 1.36M hrs of new content
• Australia is about 9th in consumer list
• Teen is and has long been one of the most searched for
categories
• (claim) 3% increase in females using to 32% (How?)
• 76% of traffic from phones/mobile devices
Globally, porn is a $97 billion industry,
according to Kassia Wosick, assistant
professor of sociology at New Mexico State
University. At present, between $10 and $12
billion of that comes from the United States.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/things-are-looking-
americas-porn-industry-n289431
OZ GDP 2019 = $A 1450

Rapid Growth
Covid-19 is increasing growth

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/how-porn-is-messing-with-your-manhood/
PORN HARMS
• Lowered libido
• ED (?)
• Addiction
• Altered sexual
tastes / lessened
pleasure
… In undergraduate college males,
depression, anxiety, stress, and social
functioning were significantly related to
online porn use, and more viewing was
related to greater problems.

Porn Harms – viewers
They believe there's an expectation
on them that they should be doing
this sort of stuff.
These aren't girls who have been plucked off the street and raped, Ms
McLean said, nor cornered at parties by drunken boys.
These acts are happening in bedrooms across the country where the
portability of the internet has enabled kids — and adults like Steve —
to load a porn video on their phone, show it to their partner and say,
"Here, do this".
Driven to violence
• > 90% & 60% girls have seen online porn.
• 88% of the most popular porn includes physical aggression.
• Porn producers overseas made a conscious effort to make their content more violent.
• things that were seen as pushing the boundaries in the late 1990s have become very much normal and
mainstream.
• Many more injuries to girls

Porn categories – sad examples
Why does porn get a free pass?
…. And last month, the world’s largest porn site released the most
watched porn categories of 2018, and racially stereotypical content
topped the charts. But there was not the same kind of outrage or
boycotting for this porn site, or any other porn site that hosts
dramatization videos of “African slaves” (trigger warning: link leads
to explicit tweet) being abused by powerful caucasian individuals,
packaged as sexual entertainment.
https://fightthenewdrug.org/porn-industry-
thrives-on-promoting-racism/

Porn Harms – providers
• Many times rape gets uploaded as porn to be consumed
for pleasure (lets think about that )
• eSaftey officer : It means Australia's regulations don't
curtail violent or "objectionable" porn being watched
locally, they simply stop it being hosted here.
https://fightthenewdrug.org/porn-industry-fought-to-stop-
keeping-records-of-performers-ages/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30355053/. ---
These videos portray aggression and
degradation as both consensual- i.e., men
dominating willing women-and sensual-
i.e., producing pleasure for both men and
• There are multiple links between
porn and sex trafficking / slavery
• Drugs, depression are common
• Suicide ?

Revenge porn :
• distribution of sexually explicit images or
video of individuals without their permission
• To extract get revenge / harm
• Sextortion i.e. blackmail
• mostly illegal but not always and not
effectively ….
Revenge Porn
Dark web : revenge porn seems rife

Porn in the digital age: 10 trends
1. There is Moral Ambiguity Toward Porn, Particularly Among Younger Americans
2. Varied opinions about what constitutes porn
3. 1 in 3 Americans seeks out porn at least once a month
4. Age gender and faith practice are the 3 biggest factors in porn use (practicing Christians less likely)
5. Young adults use more porn – less likely to say it is bad for society
6. Teens and young adults rank “not recycling” as more immoral than viewing porn
7. Most porn users say it doesn’t bother them to use porn
8. Very few adults (1 in 5) feel a sense of guilt when using porn (29% of practicing Christians do vrs 12% on
non practicing Christians)
9. Most porn users are ok with the amount of porn they use – but practicing Christians are divided
10. Few adults are trying to stop using porn
Porn – Barna findings (2016)
https://www.barna.com/research/porn-in-the-digital-age-new-research-reveals-10-trends/

Johansson has been superimposed into dozens of graphic sex
scenes over the past year that have circulated across the Web:
One video, falsely described as real “leaked” footage, has been
watched on a major porn site more than 1.5 million times. She
said she worries it may already be too late for women and children
to protect themselves against the “virtually lawless (online) abyss."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/30/f
ake-porn-videos-are-being-weaponized-harass-humiliate-
women-everybody-is-potential-target/
Deep Fakes/Deep Fakes Revenge Porn
https://youtu.be/AmUC4m6w1wo

Deep Fakes – very easy , common
Upload
5 mins later same photo
minus clothes
Deepfake algorithms are
open-source, easily
accessible to anyone with
basic programming skills
and a reliable Internet
connection.

• “Deepfakes are a powerful and dangerous new technology that can be weaponized to sow
misinformation and discord among an already hyper-partisan electorate,” Berman said in a
statement. “Deepfakes distort the truth, making it extremely challenging to distinguish real events
and actions from fiction and fantasy.”
• But the new deepfakes law will face a number of roadblocks, said Jane Kirtley, a professor of media
ethics and law at Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, as political speech
enjoys more protections in print and online than in broadcast. Because of free speech protections,
it may be easier to challenge deepfake videos through copyright claims than through the new laws,
she said.
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/07/california-makes-deepfake-videos-illegal-but-
law-may-be-hard-to-enforce
Deep Fakes + the law

AI Generated Porn (not deepfake)
It appears that this effort was not yet commercially viable but as AI research
advances that may change.

VIRTUAL REALTITY (VR) /
AUGMENTED REALITY (AR)
PORN

Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality Goggles / devices
Immersive experience – you are there!
Connected
Consumer devices now

• https://metro.co.uk/2015/06/16/10-sex-robots-you-can-actually-make-love-to-today-5249031/
AI Sex Robots
• Increasingly sophisticated
• AI enabled & increasingly human responses
• Connected to network and devices

https://www.smh.com.au/national/border-officials-in-coronavirus-quarantine-after-child-like-sex-doll-discovery-20200305-p5472k.html
• … He was charged with two counts of intentionally importing child
sex dolls into Australia and one count of possessing child abuse
material.
• Possessing a child-like sex doll is punishable by up to 15 years'
imprisonment, following amendments to the Criminal Code in
September last year.
Child Sex Dolls/ Robots not gone away
Only Illegal in some countries

VR – Role Playing Games (avatars)

May 25th 2020
OSEC
Definitions
OSEC = Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (live)
CEM = Child Exploitation Material (recorded)
OSEC Trafficker : uses the internet to sexually abuse or
exploit a child through offering CSEM and/or offering
a child for the purpose of hands on exploitation (for
money)
OSEC Customer : the person who pays for the CEM or
for the child to be abused on camera (often the
customer will direct the abuse real-time)
CyberTipLine Report : reports received by the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

OSEC – growing ( IJM Summary report 2020 )
https://ijm.org.au/wp-
content/uploads/2020/
05/Final_OSEC-Public-
Summary_05_20_2020
.pdf

OSEC – demand and supply
Supply
Developing
Country/
Countries
Demand = Rich West
rich exploiting the poor
Other supply countries are already
starting to emerge / follow

OSEC / CEM detection
Detect images (stored)
Project Arachnid (Canadian)
• web crawler to inspect links/images/video
• 100K images per month highlighted for
human inspection (and growing)
Detect live-stream
(potentially not stored)
Detect payments

OSEC – prosecution
• Plea deals
• VIDI : to limit re-victimisation (during court process)
• Specialised training

OSEC / CEM – devastation
Re-victimization: it can be impossible to remove
content from internet
Shattered lives : damage is profound
Shattered families (victims and perpetrators)
Such a huge need to care for shattered kids
https://ijm.org.au/blog/reconciliation
-after-cybersex-trafficking/

Social Media
Grooming
Trafficking
Livestream abuse

Financial Technology
Enables payment / receipt for OSEC
Block Chain can enable hiding CEM

Encryption
Hampers and even prevents detection of CEM and OSEC
Hampers collection of evidence for CEM and OSEC
There is a BIG discussion here (for another day)

Austrac
AUSTRAC overview
AUSTRAC is the Australian Government
agency responsible for detecting, deterring
and disrupting criminal abuse of the
financial system to protect the community
from serious and organised crime.
Financial oversight & detecting/reporting
financial payments for OSEC / CEM is key

CyberSex Landscape – tends to increasing harm
Child Sexual
Exploitation
Material
(CEM)
Recorded/stored
Online Sexual
Exploitation
of Children
(OSEC)
live stream
Sex trafficking
Sex slavery
Normalisation of
violence against
women
Sexting / Sextortion
High Speed Internet Porn
Anim(ated)
Revenge Porn
Deep fakes
AI Porn
AI
Generated Porn
DeepFake
Revenge Porn
Dating Apps
Cheating
Apps
VR/AR Porn
RPG
2nd life
WoW
Headsets/devices
AI
Sex Robots
Grooming
BitCoin / Blockchain
Encryption
Social Media Platforms
Financial Tech
Dual Use Technologies
Harm
Austrac

Summary – We are being changed
“There is some indication that porn has a liberalizing effect:
heterosexual male users are more likely than their peers to
approve of same-sex marriage. On the other hand, they’re less
likely to support affirmative action for women”
https://time.com/4277523/girls-sex-women-porn/
“Porn has terrible effects on what young
women believe they are supposed to
look like, particularly during sex,” said
Leslie Bell, a psychotherapist and author
of Hard to Get.

Challenges for the Church
• Porn and CyberSex are hard to talk about for the church
• Porn industry and media successfully paint porn as “normal and freeing”
• The pervasiveness and biological pull of porn mean many many Christians
struggle with porn and therefore also feel a great deal of shame.
• So if you have a porn problem : is it easier to give up going to church or to
stop using porn ?
• How actively are Churches helping folks engage in the struggle
• Sexting with Christian kids is extremely common (growing)
Orthodox priest : most of the confessions I hear these days are for
sins not possible 20 years ago
In the Church
Teen Boys
Teen Girls
Married
Single
Pastors
Elders
Leadership team
CyberSex is often the elephant in the room making the Gospel hard to hear.

Consider
More content is generated => more participants needed
As technology enables
and even drives porn use
(clicks/views/searches)
the …
More Money is generated
More Increasingly graphic / hard-core content is needed to satisfy
More child porn is created, more children harmed , victimized
and re-victimised
More relationships are affected
More “teen” category content is searched”
More our girls require surgical repair after imitating porn participants
More our girls want surgery to imitate the porn participants
More people are objectified
More violent content (including rape) is produced
All of which
adds demand

Conclusion
• If you care about women and girls
• If you care about mental health
• If you care about child exploitation
• If you care about sex trafficking
• If you care about social justice
• If you are a Church trying to reach young people with
“the good news of the Gospel”
• Increasingly folks in your church ”struggle with porn”
You very likely need to get
(more) educated and pay
more attention to how the
CyberSex landscape is
affecting us all
The Gospel of Jesus Christ has unique resources to address all challenges of the CyberSex landscape !

Call to action on OSEC/CEM
• Check out http://ijm.org & help fight OSEC (e.g. ask/help your church to
participate in freedom Sunday
• Get involved in efforts such as
https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/international-coalition-calls-on-
major-card-companies-to-cease-work-with-porn-industry/
• Talk to adolescents about their “porn challenge”
• Learn how to educate/prepare your young kids (8 yrs)
• Check out https://www.covenanteyes.com for help with your own porn
struggle and “do engage” in the struggle.
• Check out http://ftnd.org
Matt Fradd 10 Myths about pornography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkRbsmCv1s

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