Our mission is to expose and dismantle the cultural and commercial forces driving sexual exploitation in the UK. That means challenging the industries that profit from it and the ideas that protect them, while making the case for something better: sexuality rooted in dignity, mutuality and genuine human connection.
We reject every form of sexual objectification and exploitation. We will challenge systems, industries and ideas as hard as we know how. Individual people we treat with compassion and respect, always.
We apply the same ethical standard everywhere, including to ourselves. We work transparently, we say what the evidence says rather than what would be convenient, and we're accountable when we get it wrong.
Culture, commerce, technology, politics and human relationships all feed it, and they're almost always examined separately. Our job is to join them up.
We look for common ground, keep the disagreement respectful, and build partnerships capable of changing something real.
We work with courage, resilience and a long view. We're not here only to respond to harm. We're here to remove the conditions that let it flourish.
Campaigner and Policy Advocate. Founder of CEASE.
"I did not start CEASE because people do not care. I started it because caring alone changes nothing."
Clinical Psychologist. Author of Pornography and Human Futures.
“This material does not satisfy a desire that was already there. It builds one, and then it charges for it.”
We don't provide counselling, casework or crisis help, and we won't pretend otherwise. Excellent organisations already do it better.
Find real support →We work with anyone who will move on this — left, right, faith, feminist, clinical. Human dignity is not a wing of politics.
No graphic detail for effect, and no story told without the person in it agreeing to it first.
Pornography and the wider commercial sex industry aren't simply entertainment or personal choice. They're powerful commercial industries, and they change individuals, relationships and society.
It isn't only isolated acts of abuse. It's shaped by cultural norms, commercial incentives and systems that make treating a person as a product feel ordinary.
Sexuality is at its best when it's built on mutuality, trust, commitment and real human connection. Not on consumption, and not on market logic.
Open, democratic debate about the harms of pornography and the sex industry must be possible without fear, stigma or intimidation, from any direction.
No human being should be reduced to something for another person's use, consumption or profit. Everything above follows from this one.
CEASE convenes the coalition that brings charities, clinicians, researchers and campaigners together, so Parliament hears one clear position rather than twenty organisations saying slightly different things.
'Pornography Harms' Coalition →[List the other coalitions and networks CEASE belongs to, with one line each on what that membership is for.]
Individuals, trusts and foundations. Never the sex industry, and never with conditions on what our evidence is allowed to conclude.
Where your money goes →Everything CEASE has changed has happened because people refused to let it continue. If you want a world without sexual exploitation, there's a place for you here.
