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
I recently came across a survey from Cosmopolitan that reported that 36 percent of women use pornography as a “sex enhancer.” In another Cosmo article, the magazine implores its readers to explore the many “benefits” of pornography. Pornography use has become normalized in our culture. Porn stars are now mainstream icons; little girls wear the Playboy bunny with pride on their T-shirts. The...
Last month, we covered four positive conversation starters to help you communicate with your kids about staying safe online. Remember, although talking to your kids about online safety can seem like a daunting task, our kids need (and actually want) guidance and help when it comes to their life experiences online. However, often talking with your kids about their own online behaviors can be...
Our teenagers live in a culture where dildos, swinging, S&M, and sexting are the norm. Throughout popular media—whether TV shows, video games or movies—sex has been reduced to skin on skin. For many teenagers, sex has become a purely physical act, fully divorced from spirituality, love, and commitment. Sex, pornography, and “hooking up” are all met with the same response: “It’s no big...
Masturbation and your kids. These are concepts that we don’t like thinking about together. We all like thinking about our sons and daughters as “innocent” “not-sexually-interested” little kids. We forget that our children are sexual beings, and they were created to be so.
As we’ve been discussing this month, there’s a point when our children are young and sexual/self exploration is normal...
We’re continuing to dive into the uncomfortable topic if dealing with “self-touch”/masturbation and our kids, and we’ve established that when our children are very young, “self-touch” is a normal process of self-discovery. When we discover our children engaged in some type of this exploration, it’s important not to shame them or embarrass them unnecessarily. Instead, as parents, we need to...
A mom of a 3-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy recently asked me if we could about how to have age-appropriate conversations with her kids about “healthy sexuality” and their body parts. As we talked, she bravely confided in me that as she was working on dinner in the kitchen that she noticed that her children, who had been playing in the other room, had grown suspiciously quiet. When she...
Do you know whether your kids are protecting themselves (and their privacy) online?
Two cases this week of privacy breaches highlight that parents (and our kids) must take the use utmost caution when using apps, connecting and posting online.
In the first case, someone is stealing Facebook profile pictures of teenage girls and posting them on a pornographic website. As the District...
Well, happy Valentine’s Day!
A new survey found that 55% of singles reported having sex on the first date. As reported by USA Today, sex therapist Laura Berman suggested that many people feel as if they know each other well by the first date because of their online and text-based interactions, that that “online sharing has definitely escalated some of this familiarity and quickness in which...
Although talking with our kids about online safety can seem daunting, our children desperately seek and need our advice, guidance, and support as they connect and experience life in the new virtual world. Start this conversation today. Remember: don’t pull the plug or throw out their smartphone if you find out that they are doing something online that you do not approve of. First, be real...
My four-year-old took off her underwear and started rubbing herself on the floor!
My two-year-old can’t keep his hands away from his penis!
I walked in on my eleven-year-old daughter masturbating under the sheets!
I found my fifteen-year-old looking at pornography online and masturbating!
Masturbation: there are few topics that make parents (or people) more uncomfortable. A little girl...
