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Every guide is a practical playbook written for one audience. Pick the one that fits your situation.
- Parents & caregiversAge-by-age conversations, sextortion and grooming, device setup, and what to do if something happened.
- Survivors & victimsRemoval of circulating imagery, sextortion and grooming support, trauma-informed therapy.
- People seeking help for themselvesConfidentiality realities, anonymous prevention services, evidence-based treatment.
- Educators & school staffFirst steps for the situations schools encounter unprepared.
- Therapists & cliniciansIntake screening, CBT vs ACT, trauma modalities, the forensic-vs-therapeutic line.
- AttorneysRecidivism data with caveats, defensible risk instruments, AI-CSAM law.
- Tech founders & T&S leadershipThe legal floor, a minimum viable detection stack, personal exposure.
- Compliance & T&S operationsRegulatory mapping, audit checklist, metrics, vendor due-diligence.
- Engineers building protectionThe ingest→hash→match→act pipeline and the one handling rule that matters.
- Anyone who needs to report contentWhere to report CSAM across 114 platforms and the clearinghouses.
Get help now
Crisis lines, recovery programs, support, and the tools that block or remove content.
- Sextortion survival guideBeing threatened over an image? The exact steps right now — don't pay, preserve, report, remove.
- Get images removedWhich free tool for your situation (Take It Down, StopNCII, Report Remove), and your 48-hour right.
- Worried about your own thoughts?Confidential, anonymous help before anyone is harmed — and an honest look at what works.
- Get HelpCrisis lines, recovery programs, and support — regional and international.
- Bay Area resourcesSan Francisco Bay Area treatment and support, including the HOPE Program.
- Apps & filtering toolsAccountability software, content filters, and device-level controls.
- Report abuse or CSAMThe two reporting paths and the clearinghouses of first resort.
Read the research
The full report, chapter by chapter — from exposure and addiction through CSAM, AI-generated content, prevention, and recovery.
- 01. Early Pornography ExposureAverage age of first exposure is now 12–13. Cumulative exposure during adolescence accelerates sharply, and a large share is accidental rather than sought.
- 02. Pornography Addiction PathwaysInternet pornography activates the same reward circuitry as substance addiction. The ICD-11 formally recognizes Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder, with 3–17% of users meeting criteria for problematic use.
- 03. Escalation from Pornography to CSAMEscalation from legal pornography to CSAM is empirically contested. It is possible but not inevitable, with pre-existing pedophilic interest a stronger predictor than pornography consumption alone. This chapter also covers the production typology behind the imagery — family-circle abuse, self-generated coercion, livestreamed production-on-demand — and the offender-pathway models that map onto it.
- 04. AI-Generated Content: The New FrontierAI-generated CSAM videos surged 26,385% in 2025. Detection systems built for traditional CSAM cannot identify novel synthetic material. This chapter covers the generation pipeline in practice, the LAION-5B training-data contamination finding, the unsettled US law after Anderegg, the encryption debate, and how to read the headline statistics in light of the Stanford CIS finding that ~80% of "Generative AI" CyberTipline reports involved no AI-generated CSAM at all.
- 05. Therapeutic InterventionsCBT and ACT show large effect sizes for problematic pornography use, with one trial achieving a 93% reduction. CSAM-specific programs — Dunkelfeld, Troubled Desire, Stop It Now!, Inform Plus, i-SOTP, CEM-COPE — have varying evidence quality. This chapter also covers survivors of CSAM circulation, whose ongoing-harm experience requires different clinical scaffolding than standard sexual-trauma protocols.
- 06. Technology SolutionsFrom DNS filters and recovery-program apps to industrial-scale CSAM detection processing 415 billion files annually, the technology landscape spans household tools, structured behavior-change software, hash-sharing networks, distribution-and-economy patterns, the reporting pipeline from CyberTipline to arrest, and the technical detail of how perceptual hashing actually works.
- 07. Prevention StrategiesHalf of US states now require age verification. The Supreme Court upheld Texas's law in June 2025. Yet evidence shows these laws displace traffic rather than reduce consumption. This chapter also maps how CSAM-specific law differs across the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia, and the major outliers — the structural variations that shape platform compliance and cross-border investigation.
- 08. RecommendationsEffective protection requires coordinated action across families, schools, technology platforms, legislatures, and clinical settings. No single intervention is sufficient alone. Each section below has a companion guide with the operational details.
- 09. Getting Help & Taking ActionEverything the research points to, gathered in one place: where to report, how to get images removed, where to find help and recovery, the open-source tools, the law, and the full library of role-specific guides. If you need to act, start here.
Build protective technology
For engineers and platforms: the open-source toolkit and the implementation guide.
About this resource
How it was made and the sources behind every claim.
- CSAM by the numbersThe headline statistics, each with its year and primary source — the page to cite.
- Laws & policy trackerEnacted law vs proposed bills, each with status, date, and primary source.
- Organization directoryWho's who in child protection, mapped by function — hotlines, detection, prevention, research.
- AboutWhat this is, the methodology, how it began as research in 2023, and the editorial standards behind every page.
- CitationsThe full source list behind every claim and statistic.
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