Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation · UK Human Rights Charity

Pornography harms
children. Women.
Men. Society.
We're pushing back.

CEASE is the UK charity working upstream - exposing and dismantling the commercial forces driving sexual exploitation, not just cleaning up the damage.

The Government has clear recommendations on the table. The only thing standing between them and the law is pressure from people like you.

Email your MP in 2 minutes → We give you the template. You bring the pressure.
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We don't just raise the alarm

We've already helped change the law.

Since 2019 we've turned evidence into action, and action into law. Here's some of what that's delivered, and why we're only getting started.

2019 · Founded

Built to work upstream

A charity that goes after the root of the harm, where almost no one else does.

Evidence

Profits Before People

Our 84-page investigation into how the industry profits from harm. Now an evidence base for the field.

2026 · Now law

Age checks are mandatory

We campaigned for online age verification. Pornhub blocked UK users rather than comply.

In Parliament

Heard where it counts

Events in the House of Lords, evidence to MPs, and new provisions won in the Crime & Policing Bill.

The evidence is overwhelming.
These are the numbers.

10years old

The average age a child first sees pornography.

Before secondary school. Before a single lesson on consent or what intimacy is meant to be. Most of what they find shows aggression and the humiliation of women, framed as normal.

CEASE / Children's Commissioner
40% rise

The jump in child-on-child sexual assaults in one year.

One third of all child sexual abuse is now committed by other children. The children who do harm have usually been harmed first.

National crime statistics, 2024
51men

Convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot. Not monsters.

Teachers, nurses, soldiers, firefighters. Most had no record. Many called it normal. "Shame must change sides," she said. She was right.

Pelicot trial, France 2024
90% of girls

Say sexist abuse and explicit images are just routine.

An Ofsted review found most girls described it as part of everyday school life. When this is ordinary, something has gone seriously wrong.

Ofsted Review of Sexual Abuse in Schools, 2021
Content warning: references to sexual violence and child abuse
Why it keeps getting worse

The harm isn't a glitch.
It's the business model.

Porn is engineered to hook you, like a slot machine for desire. But the brain adapts. The same content stops delivering the same hit, so it takes more: more extreme, more degrading, more violent, just to feel what you felt at the start. Escalation isn't an accident. It's how the product keeps working.

01 / It captures whoever's watching

Addiction doesn't care who you are.

Anyone can get pulled under and lose hours, focus, and the ability to be present with the people they love. Reaching for connection, they're handed escalation instead. Shame keeps them silent, which is exactly why we refuse to shame them.

02 / It rewrites what sex is

The screen becomes the script.

When people learn about sex from porn, aggression and coercion get mistaken for normal and carried into real relationships. Those on the receiving end, most often women and girls, live with violence treated as ordinary.

03 / It reaches children

On both sides of the harm.

Escalation manufactures demand for the most extreme material there is, including abuse and child sexual abuse content. Children are exposed younger, and harmed children go on to harm other children.

1,000% rise since the pandemic in videos of primary-school-aged children abusing themselves on camera

These are real people, in real places, right now. And the same three arguments are still used to say nothing should change.

Three things people say. Why they're wrong.

You've heard the defences.
Here's what they miss.

We engage all three head-on. Not to shame anyone - shame helps no one - but because the evidence matters and these ideas deserve a real answer.

Argument 01
"It's just natural.
Everyone has needs."

Hunger is natural. We still don't let an industry engineer it for profit. People don't just want release - they want connection, closeness, to feel wanted. The industry targets those deeper needs, then profits from never meeting them.

Argument 02
"It's self-expression.
Don't shame people."

We agree - shame helps no one. But there's a difference between shaming a person and questioning an industry. It doesn't give people what they want. It shapes what they want, then charges for it. What feels like free choice is often just what the algorithm rewards.

Argument 03
"Consenting adults.
My choice."

Consent matters. It's just never enough on its own. We don't accept "they agreed" as a full defence in any other industry where power and vulnerability collide. And what happens in private doesn't stay private - it shapes what children grow up believing is normal.

What makes CEASE different

Everyone else treats the symptoms. We go upstream.

Hospitals treat injuries. Safeguarding teams protect children. Prosecutors pursue offenders - all vital. CEASE asks the question almost no one else does: what keeps producing this harm in the first place?

Upstream

We tackle the root cause

Others respond after the harm is done. We go after what causes it: the cultural and commercial systems that profit from exploitation.

Rigour

We lead with evidence, not opinion

Every claim is grounded in research. We cite our sources, publish openly, and hold ourselves to the standards we ask of others.

Coalition

We unite left and right

This isn't a partisan cause. We bring together people across political and ideological lines, because human dignity belongs to everyone.

Where we're fighting now

Our work, right now.

This is where pressure turns into change. Live campaigns, landmark research and the legislative fights that decide what happens next.

Live campaign

Implement the Pornography Review

The independent review set out what has to change. We're pushing the Government to act on every recommendation - and it starts with your MP.

Email your MP → Flagship report

Profits Before People

Our investigation into how the porn industry monetises sexual violence. The evidence base behind every campaign we run.

Read the report → Coalition we lead

The Not For Sale campaign

Co-leading the national push for a legal framework to end commercial sexual exploitation in England and Wales.

See the campaign → Global movement

Traffickinghub

Standing with the global movement holding Pornhub and its owners to account for profiting from trafficking and abuse.

Learn more →

Campaigning

Public pressure that cuts through the noise and forces the conversation.

Policy & public affairs

Briefing MPs and convening the Pornography Harms Coalition to win lasting law.

Research & evidence

Gathering and sharpening the strongest proof in the field into something undeniable.

Thought leadership

Reframing how society talks about porn, exploitation, dignity and what we owe each other.

The evidence behind everything we do

It doesn't sell freedom.
It sells harm at scale.

Our landmark report documents how the commercial porn industry profits from degradation, violence and exploitation - using the language of empowerment and free choice to dodge scrutiny.

The evidence isn't contested. This industry profits from harm, under rules no other sector would be allowed. That has to change.

84pages of evidence
Freeopen access
Read the full report →
We don't fight alone

The coalitions
we build and lead.

Lasting change is never won by one organisation. We convene survivors, experts, charities and campaigners into coalitions with the weight to move policy and shift culture.

An online community

Expose the Harm

A safe, anonymous space where people share how pornography has harmed them, their relationships, or someone they love.

Every story is testimony. Together they build something the industry can't argue with: proof, in people's own words, that the harm is real.

Share your story →
Policy coalition

Pornography Harms Coalition

The cross-sector alliance we convene to brief parliamentarians, shape legislation and hold the industry to the standards expected of any other harmful commodity.

Meet the coalition → Working group

OnlyFans Working Group

A focused group exposing how subscription platforms like OnlyFans profit from exploitation, and pressing for proper regulation and accountability.

See the work →
The world we're building
People valued for
who they are.
Not consumed
for what they provide.

Sexuality rooted in trust, care and genuine connection - not transaction. This isn't a utopia. It's a human standard. Connection over consumption. Dignity over degradation. And it's already visible in classrooms, friendships and communities across the country.

Two friends embracingConnection
Children laughing togetherBelonging
A world without exploitationHopeful. Human. Within reach.
A diverse group of friends togetherFriendship
Teenagers spending time together outdoorsGrowing up free
A family embracing at sunsetFamily
People of all ages togetherA better tomorrow
Why this matters

Children. Women. Men. Real people, in their own words.

"I see it in my classroom every day. Boys using language straight from porn, girls making themselves smaller. Nobody is teaching them a different story. That's what CEASE is doing."

A TeacherSecondary school, London

"I found out my son had been watching porn since he was eleven. I had no idea how to talk to him about it. CEASE gave me the language and the courage to have that conversation."

A FatherParent of a teenage son

"I didn't have language for it at the time. I just knew something felt wrong - like the way he saw me was shaped by something I couldn't see. CEASE helped me understand what had happened. And that I wasn't alone in it."

AnonymousShared anonymously with CEASE

"I didn't think I had a problem. That's how it works - nobody tells you there's a line, because the culture says there isn't one. CEASE helped me understand what I'd actually been looking for. It wasn't what the industry was selling."

AnonymousShared anonymously with CEASE
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We don't just challenge what's wrong. We're building something better: a world where people are valued for who they are, not treated as products. That world is built by ordinary people making deliberate choices.

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