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While Exodus Cry's website and #Traffickinghub campaign claim a non-religious non-political concern with sex trafficking, the organization "opposes decriminalizing or legalizing sex work and wants to abolish porn altogether," according to [[Vice (magazine)|''Vice'']].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cole |first=Samantha |title=How a Petition to Shut Down Pornhub Got Two Million Signatures |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy4z/petition-shut-down-pornhub-trafficking-hub-earn-it?utm_content=1598967872&utm_medium=social&utm_source=VICE_twitter |access-date=September 1, 2020 |work=Vice |date=September 1, 2020}}</ref> In 2017, the organization altered its mission statement to remove all references to Jesus Christ and prayer.<ref name="Daily Beast">{{cite news |last=Hitt |first=Tarpley |title=Inside Exodus Cry: The Shady Evangelical Group With Trump Ties Waging War on Pornhub |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-exodus-cry-the-shady-evangelical-group-with-trump-ties-waging-war-on-pornhub |access-date=2 November 2020 |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |date=2 November 2020}}</ref>
While Exodus Cry's website and #Traffickinghub campaign claim a non-religious non-political concern with sex trafficking, the organization "opposes decriminalizing or legalizing sex work and wants to abolish porn altogether," according to [[Vice (magazine)|''Vice'']].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cole |first=Samantha |title=How a Petition to Shut Down Pornhub Got Two Million Signatures |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy4z/petition-shut-down-pornhub-trafficking-hub-earn-it?utm_content=1598967872&utm_medium=social&utm_source=VICE_twitter |access-date=September 1, 2020 |work=Vice |date=September 1, 2020}}</ref> In 2017, the organization altered its mission statement to remove all references to Jesus Christ and prayer.<ref name="Daily Beast">{{cite news |last=Hitt |first=Tarpley |title=Inside Exodus Cry: The Shady Evangelical Group With Trump Ties Waging War on Pornhub |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-exodus-cry-the-shady-evangelical-group-with-trump-ties-waging-war-on-pornhub |access-date=2 November 2020 |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |date=2 November 2020}}</ref>
On December 1, 2020, ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' reported that Exodus Cry spokesperson Laila Haddad Mickelwait had filed declarations supporting two men working with Exodus Cry accused of sexual harassment and posting death threats against Dr. Nicole Prause, a scientist whose high-profile study disputed the existence of porn addiction. "It's ironic to me that they claim to support women, when they’re actively advocating for men who are sexually harassing and intimidating women,"<ref>{{cite news |last=Hitt |first=Tarpley |title=Inside the Shady Sex-Work Abolitionist Group That Gutted Pornhub |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-shady-sex-work-abolitionist-group-that-gutted-pornhub |access-date=December 17, 2020 |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |date=December 17, 2020}}</ref> Dr. Prause said.
On December 1, 2020, ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' reported that Exodus Cry spokesperson Laila Haddad Mickelwait had filed declarations supporting two men working with Exodus Cry accused of sexual harassment and posting death threats against Dr. Nicole Prause, a scientist whose high-profile study disputed the existence of porn addiction. "It's ironic to me that they claim to support women, when they’re actively advocating for men who are sexually harassing and intimidating women,"<ref>{{cite news |last=Hitt |first=Tarpley |title=Inside the Shady Sex-Work Abolitionist Group That Gutted Pornhub |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-shady-sex-work-abolitionist-group-that-gutted-pornhub |access-date=December 17, 2020 |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |date=December 17, 2020}}</ref> Dr. Prause said.
On December 18, 2020, the [[International Slavery Museum]] pulled their planned collaboration with the organization based on Nolot's views on gay marriage.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pye |first=Laura |title=A statement from Director of National Museums Liverpool, Laura Pye, about the ArtXFreedom display |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/th/trafficking-hub |access-date=December 17, 2020 |work=International Slavery Museum |date=December 17, 2020}}</ref> Exodus Cry denies it was anti-LGBTQ, and stated that Nolot's personal views were irrelevant to the overall mission of the organization.<ref name=":0" />
On December 18, 2020, the [[International Slavery Museum]] pulled their planned collaboration with the organization based on Nolot's views on gay marriage.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pye |first=Laura |title=A statement from Director of National Museums Liverpool, Laura Pye, about the ArtXFreedom display |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/th/trafficking-hub |access-date=December 17, 2020 |work=International Slavery Museum |date=December 17, 2020}}</ref> Exodus Cry denies it was anti-LGBTQ, and stated that Nolot's personal views were irrelevant to the overall mission of the organization.<ref name=":0" />

While Exodus Cry has denied they promote violence, Vice offered extensive evidence that Exodus Cry was inspiring criminal death threats.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cole |first=Samantha |title=The Crusade Against Pornhub Is Going to Get Someone Killed |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bj9w/anti-porn-extremism-pornhub-traffickinghub-exodus-cry-ncose |website=Vice |access-date=April 13, 2021}}</ref> Laila Mickelwait denied involvement by blaming the vicim, accusing PornHub of threatening itself, without evidence.


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Exodus Cry is a non-profit advocacy organization seeking the abolition of the legal commercial sex industry, including pornography, strip clubs and sex work, and illegal sex trafficking.[1][2][3]

History

The organization began in 2007 as a weekly prayer group founded by Benjamin Nolot, a filmmaker and member of the charismatic Christian International House of Prayer. Nolot is currently the CEO of the organization. Exodus Cry says it is no longer directly affiliated with the church, but is faith-based and does offer prayer instruction on its website.[3][4]

Traffickinghub campaign

In February 2020, the organization's Director of Abolition, Laila Mickelwait, launched a petition to shut down the adult website Pornhub. Mickelwait's #Traffickinghub campaign was co-sponsored the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography organization formerly known as Morality in Media. By September, the campaign had gained over two million signatures, and on December 10, following an opinion column by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof alleging the site was being used to share sex abuse videos,[5] Visa and Mastercard stopped allowing Pornhub to accept credit card transactions.[6]

In the wake of the campaign against Pornhub, sex workers said that the loss of credit card processing will most impact independent performers, who use the platform to sell directly to fans.[7] The Sex Workers Outreach Project called religious groups pressure on Mastercard and Visa a "war against sex workers" in which "many sex workers will be forced even further into the margins."[8]  

Criticism

In 2017, Exodus Cry released Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution, a documentary film filmed during Spring Break condemning hook-up culture and casual sex. The film was shown on Netflix and at various college campuses. The film and the organisation were criticized with claims that it should have disclosed the group's alleged religious background, and director Nolot's historic opposition to abortion and LGBTQ rights.[9][10][11] In November 2020, actress Melissa McCarthy and HBO pulled their planned charitable support of the organization, after learning that founder and CEO Nolot had once compared abortion to the Holocaust, and condemned gay marriage.[12] Exodus Cry denied it was anti-LGBTQ and that Nolot's personal views were not relevant to the overall mission of the organization.[13] While Exodus Cry's website and #Traffickinghub campaign claim a non-religious non-political concern with sex trafficking, the organization "opposes decriminalizing or legalizing sex work and wants to abolish porn altogether," according to Vice.[14] In 2017, the organization altered its mission statement to remove all references to Jesus Christ and prayer.[15] On December 1, 2020, The Daily Beast reported that Exodus Cry spokesperson Laila Haddad Mickelwait had filed declarations supporting two men working with Exodus Cry accused of sexual harassment and posting death threats against Dr. Nicole Prause, a scientist whose high-profile study disputed the existence of porn addiction. "It's ironic to me that they claim to support women, when they’re actively advocating for men who are sexually harassing and intimidating women,"[16] Dr. Prause said. On December 18, 2020, the International Slavery Museum pulled their planned collaboration with the organization based on Nolot's views on gay marriage.[17] Exodus Cry denies it was anti-LGBTQ, and stated that Nolot's personal views were irrelevant to the overall mission of the organization.[13]

While Exodus Cry has denied they promote violence, Vice offered extensive evidence that Exodus Cry was inspiring criminal death threats.[18] Laila Mickelwait denied involvement by blaming the vicim, accusing PornHub of threatening itself, without evidence.

References

  1. ^ "Our Solution". ExodusCry.com. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  2. ^ "Become an Abolitionist". ExodusCry.com. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Hitt, Tarpley (November 2, 2020). "Inside Exodus Cry: The Shady Evangelical Group With Trump Ties Waging War on Pornhub". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  4. ^ Cole, Samantha (September 1, 2020). "How A Petition to Shut Down Pornhub Gained Over Two Million Signatures". VICE. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  5. ^ Kristof, Nicholas (December 4, 2020). "The Children of Pornhub". The New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  6. ^ Friedman, Gillian (December 10, 2020). "Visa and Mastercard Stop Allowing Their Cards to Be Used On Pornhub". The New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. ^ Dickson, EJ (December 11, 2020). "Pornhub Upended the Porn Industry. Now New Changes Could Destroy Sex Workers Livelihoods". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  8. ^ "SWOP Behind Bars Statement Regarding Pornhub being Banned from Accepting Visa and Mastercard". SWOPBehindBars.com. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  9. ^ Provost, Claire. "Revealed: the US 'Christian fundamentalists' behind new Netflix film on millennial sex lives". OpenDemocracy.com. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  10. ^ Grant, Melissa Gira (December 10, 2020). "Nick Kristof and the Holy War on Pornhub". The New Republic. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  11. ^ Hitt, Tarpley (November 15, 2020). "Why Are HBO and Melissa McCarthy Raising Money for an Anti-LGBTQ Group?". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  12. ^ Rosen, Christopher (November 13, 2020). "Melissa McCarthy Apologizes for Supporting Charity with Anti-LGBTQ Past". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  13. ^ a b Foley, Ryan (November 17, 2020). "Exodus Cry responds after Melissa McCarthy withdraws support over 'homophobic,' 'anti-choice' views". The Christian Post. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  14. ^ Cole, Samantha (September 1, 2020). "How a Petition to Shut Down Pornhub Got Two Million Signatures". Vice. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  15. ^ Hitt, Tarpley (November 2, 2020). "Inside Exodus Cry: The Shady Evangelical Group With Trump Ties Waging War on Pornhub". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  16. ^ Hitt, Tarpley (December 17, 2020). "Inside the Shady Sex-Work Abolitionist Group That Gutted Pornhub". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  17. ^ Pye, Laura (December 17, 2020). "A statement from Director of National Museums Liverpool, Laura Pye, about the ArtXFreedom display". International Slavery Museum. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  18. ^ Cole, Samantha. "The Crusade Against Pornhub Is Going to Get Someone Killed". Vice. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
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