Cris Clapp Logan
Cris Clapp Logan is an Internet safety expert, anti-trafficking activist, artist and writer. She educates congressional members about Internet safety issues, works with corporate partners to encourage them to adopt family-friendly policies and aggregates and comments on research relating to sexual predation, sexually explicit content, youth behavior online, pornography addiction and sex trafficking. Cris contributes regularly on national radio, TV and print publications including the Huffington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post.
She co-authored The Volunteer’s Back Pocket Guide to Sex with Craig Gross, which helps youth volunteers effectively navigate everything from pornography to purity with the kids they work with. Cris also developed and co-leads Pure Sex with Craig Gross, a DVD-based curriculum that helps students pursue God-honoring sexuality.
Cris also served Director of Communications and Congressional Relations and Spokesperson with leading Internet safety organization, Enough Is Enough, where she served on the Virginia Attorney General’s Youth Internet Safety Task Force, the GetNetWise Advisory Board, Google’s Child Safety Summit, the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force with Harvard’s Berkman Center, and as a Faculty Member of the 2010 National Conference on Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation Prevention. In 2008, she served on the TIP & Technology: Uses and Abuses of Technology in Human Trafficking Roundtable, U.S. Department of State.
She is an Associate Producer and writer of Enough Is Enough’s Internet Safety 101 educational film series and a writer and editor of Enough Is Enough’s Internet Safety 101 workbook. Cris speaks at conferences and to parent groups across the country in areas relating to Internet pornography, teen Web identity, and the Web 2.0.
Cris currently manages communications, content and public relations for Global Centurion Foundation, a national anti-trafficking organization focused on addressing modern slavery by focusing on the demand side of the equation.
Cris also paints in her free time, focusing on themes relating to modern-day slavery, restored people and places, and the relationship between love and technology. She and her husband, Sam, live in Washington D.C.
Cris Clapp Logan
This is a question posed by Chelsea Clinton and James P. Steyer (CEO of Common Sense Media) in an article out earlier this week on CNN. Some of the stats they shared included that:
- More than 7.5 million American kids under the age of 13 have joined Facebook, despite the site’s user agreement which requires individuals to be 13 years old to open an account.
- By the time they are 2 years old,...
Have you head of this new hit show from the CW? I heard about "The L.A. Complex" at Target this week when I was standing in line behind a few girls that looked to be about 13 or 14 years old. Their discussion was very animated, and it was clear that the show was one of their new obsessions. Later, when I watched a few sample segments from the show, I discovered gratuitous sex, explicit...
When I’m talking with parents about the accessibility and impact of pornography on kids today, they often want to shut down, plug their ears or pretend that their kids are good enough to stay away from hardcore porn. Unfortunately, the largest viewers of online pornography are teenagers today, and the vast majority of kids will accidentally encounter pornography online. So what’s a parent...
Earlier this week, we looked at two reasons pornography can be especially harmful to children: Firstly, the images can never be erased and are especially alluring to young brains; and, Secondly, that a child’s prefrontal cortex is not fully developed, and as a result, they have a very difficult time distinguishing fantasy from reality (read the full blog here).
The third reason that...
Last week, Kevin brought up some great points regarding pornography’s impact on the brain. As Kevin highlighted, most kids today believe that viewing pornography is no big deal—that what they watch online will have little impact on their offline relationships and lives. Sadly, many parents also believe this myth or the myth that their kids are too young or too smart to seek out or encounter...
As parents and youth leaders, it’s easy to fall short when it comes to talking with our kids about sex and purity (but for a great resource, check out our book The Volunteer's Back Pocket Guide to Sex and our DVD resource, Pure Sex). Frankly, it’s just pretty uncomfortable to talk about sexual issues when we’re face to face with our “innocent” little sons and daughters, but the reality is...
Did I just hear some parents pass out?
When I was growing up, I don’t remember ever thinking about anal sex. Do you? Twenty years ago… or even ten years ago, most teenagers would not have known what anal sex even was. Those who did know about it probably would not have considered engaging in it. But as we talk about so often on this site, online pornography has become the primary sex-ed...
Over the past few months, we’ve started to tackle some common cultural myths relating to sexuality, including:
Myth 1: “Porn is Harmless Fun”
Myth 2: “If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It”
Myth 3: “What You Do Now Won’t Matter as an Adult”
Which brings us to Myth 4: “I Need to Masturbate!”
As we began to tackle last month, as uncomfortable as it is to talk to your son or daughter about sex, it’s even...
Since it’s STD Awareness Month, I want to continue to follow up on our conversation from last week about STDs. When I was going through Sex-Ed, frankly, I don’t think STDs (apart from AIDS) were really talked about much. Hopefully your kids have heard a little about STDs if they are a teen or tween, but if they haven’t, here are a few facts that are important to consider talking about with...
Did you know April is STD Awareness Month? Well, now you do, so it’s a good time to start talking to your teen or tween about the facts. As Kevin shared earlier this week, a common myth that we all believe when we are young is that what we do as kids won’t impact us as adults, but as Kevin highlighted, whether it’s a tattoo or an STD, the choices we make as youths can stick with our bodies...
