Pat Trueman is founder of the website PornHarms.com, which really is a culmination of his years fighting illegal pornography. The site is dedicated to providing the most accurate peer-reviewed research on the harm from pornography. He currently directs the War on Illegal Pornography, a national coalition effort involving dozens of national, state and local groups that are educating the American Public on the great harms of pornography and calling for vigorous enforcement of federal laws against illegal pornography.

Patrick’s prior experience includes among other 34 years as a lawyer where he litigated cases at all levels of the federal system, including in the United States Supreme Court. He was formerly the Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division, U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. from 1988 to 1993.  While there, he supervised the prosecution of child sex crimes, child pornography, and obscenity.  He managed an office of twenty prosecutors and support staff, and worked with the nation’s ninety-three United States Attorneys to initiate and coordinate federal prosecutions.

In his private practice (see http://www.pattrueman.org) he is a legal consultant to non-profit organizations on child sexual exploitation, sexual trafficking, pornography, indecency, and related matters.  He has been an adviser to many municipalities on First Amendment law and has helped draft ordinances to end or curb the impact of sexually oriented businesses such as pornography shops, strip clubs, and related establishments.

Here is the Honest Answers Interview with Pat Trueman

My take on Pat & his work:
When I started this site my intent was simply to help those who suffer with addiction as I progress down my own road to recovery. I was probably similar to many others in my thinking about it in the public arena- that porn is bad, it’s all over, but all I have to do is choose to not to look. This is exactly right if it were only yourself that you were responsible for, but in communities as in families we have responsibilities that extend beyond ourselves. After talking just a little while with Pat, many of the common rationalization that I have heard from so many places about freedom of speech, keeping government out of business, etc all started to crumble. For government is us. We are the body of our communities and when a part of the body fails to alert the executive that there is a problem, the problem remains and festers.

My naive perspective was akin to putting my head in the sand. While many will reason that there are no repercussions from pornography or at very least that we don’t know what it’s effects are, it’s not true. There is ample circumstantial and empirical evidence that pornography changes the very structure of our brains, manipulating our perceptions about others, sapping motivation to participate constructively in families and societies and many other things.

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