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
Have you heard of ABC’s new show “GCB”? It’s based on a book called Good Christian Bitches; both book and show do a pretty good job of pointing out hypocrisy within the church and painting (at least some) Christians as pharisaical nut cases.
During the latest episode, Pastor Tudor (the head pastor of a church in the most affluent neighborhood in Dallas, TX) challenges the committed, married...
A few years ago, I worked on a multi-media project called Internet Safety 101, which focuses on educating and empowering parents to protect kids from online dangers. In one section of the program, we interviewed a number of teenagers to learn the impact pornography had already had on their young lives. As one 16-year-old boy explained (you can watch the clip here): “pornography shaped my...
In this week’s episode of Fox’s new hit show “New Girl”, one of the main characters, Nick, asks his roommate, Schmidt (currently king of casual sex), to help him learn how to have consensual, “meaningless” sex. You see, Nick has been sleeping with a lot of different women, and at the end of their romps, he hasn’t mastered the art of kicking a girl out of his life. Schmidt explains to Nick...
It’s almost an understatement to say that teenagers today are obsessed with the way they look. Often this obsession revolves around being sexy. Unfortunately, the media’s standard for “sexy” is unachievable without surgery, professional makeup teams, and diet pills. One study reports that by age 13, 53 percent of American girls are unhappy with their bodies.[i] This number grows to 78...
Earlier this week, I touched on two common temptations teens (and especially girls) struggle with: (1) Getting involved in an online relationship and (2) Crossing physical boundaries. Two more common struggles that teens (especially girls) struggle with include: (3) food-related struggles, and: (4) fantasy & masturbation.
Like so many of these life compromises, food-related struggles and...
Last week, Kevin focused on the concept that many of our teens (especially our girls) struggle with: ‘If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It”. I remember back when I was in high school, this was a concept that I certainly struggled with. On the outside, everything looked pretty good, but on the inside, I was an insecure mess, and as a result, I felt as though I constantly needed the attention and...
A number of parents have written me over the past year explaining that when they confront their son or daughter about their use of pornography, their teenagers reply that what they do online is “their private business”. So many of our kids have bought into the very popular myth that pornography is just “harmless fun”, and that they have the “right” to their own private life online.
Firstly,...
Or as she elaborated in this month’s Men’s Health Magazine, she believes the sex act itself is overrated. Given her status as a world-renowned sex symbol and Men’s Health’s #5 “Hottest Woman of All Time” I was pretty surprised to read what she had to say about sex, pornography and the sexualization of media, and I wanted to include a few excerpts for your thoughts….
MH: Are you surprised by...
As we’ve talking about over the past few weeks, as parents, we often need help talking to our kids about being safe online. If you missed our last three posts of conversation starters, check out part 1 here , part 2 here and part 3 here. To continue the conversation, consider using some of these conversation starters with your kids:
Let’s say that your worst enemy is planning on using...
As we’ve talking about over the past few weeks, sometimes we need help (OK, let’s be real… a lot of help) talking to our kids about being safe online. If you missed our last two posts of conversation starters, check out part 1 here and part 2 here, and to continue the conversation, consider using some of these conversation starters with your kids.
Do any of your friends talk to strangers...
