PRESS RELEASE
Contact Patrick A. Trueman, 703-938-1776
Kill the .XXX Domain
Start a War on Pornography Instead

Washington, D.C., May 6, 2010. “The .XXX domain should be killed and a
stake driven through its heart so it never rises again,” said Patrick
Trueman, former U.S. Department of Justice pornography prosecutor. For
more than ten years, the promoter of this new porn domain for the
Internet has tried to get the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers, the Internet governing agency, to establish an additional
place on the Internet for access to pornography, Trueman noted. “Not one
sound argument has been put forward for why the world needs more
Internet pornography.”

Trueman said, “What is needed instead of an .XXX domain is a war on
pornography.” The public, should call a halt to widespread distribution
of pornography because of the terrible harm such material is causing.
“There are four major harms from pornography, harm to children, violence
against women, addiction to men women and children and increased sex
trafficking.” He outlined these harms:

1.) It is causing great harm to children who have easy access to
hardcore porn as soon as they are on computers. Also, men looking at
porn are deviating to harder and harder material to get a sexual high
and many are turning to child porn and child molestation.

2.) Violence against women is now a feature in most hardcore films and
this is developing violent attitudes towards women and girls, according
to research.

3.) Addiction to pornography is now an untreated pandemic. The brain
science research on pornography demonstrates that men are never
satisfied with what they see in porn and thus are driven to consume more
and more until addiction develops.

4.) Finally, pornography leads many to act out what the see and that is
leading to an increase in prostitution. So much prostitution today
involves sexually trafficked women and girls. The research on children
involved in commercial sex is staggering with studies indicating that
approximately 250,000 juveniles are involved in trafficking. Large
numbers of foreign and domestic adult women are also trafficked to meet
the demand for prostitution.

Trueman also noted that countless marriages are breaking up because of
pornography and sexual promiscuity among the young is growing. He cited
the new cell phone trend called “sexting” as evidence of promiscuity.
“Sexting is primarily a matter of children producing and distributing
child pornography,” an exceedingly alarming development in America.
Trueman said he believes that kids involved in sexting are steeped in
Internet pornography for years before they begin producing and
distributing it. Their normal inhibitions have been destroyed, he said.

Trueman is leading a nationwide effort called the War on Illegal
Pornography, designed to get the U.S. Department of Justice to enforce
Federal laws against illegal pornography. The Department is not
enforcing Federal laws that prohibit distribution of hardcore
pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite or hotel/motel
pay-per-view TV and in retail shops. The War on Illegal Pornography,
Trueman noted is a coalition effort lead by Morality in Media and has
more than 50 concerned national and state groups involved to date. A new
website called Pornography Harms; http://pornharms.com has been
developed to provide the most accurate peer-reviewed research on the
harm from pornography. “Education on the devastating harm from
pornography is critical to our efforts to get Federal laws enforced,
Trueman said.

To stop the .XXX domain, comments may be emailed to icm-options-report@icann.org
by May 10.

Trueman is the former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section, under Presidents Reagan and George
H.W. Bush.