LOS ANGELES — The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has named Lion’s Den, MojoHost and Segpay as its Featured Sponsors for August 2020.
"ASACP’s monthly Featured Sponsors are among the industry’s most respected companies and are prime examples of how responsible business practices, ethical operation and social awareness can serve to protect minors from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials,” explained a rep.
According to Executive Director Tim Henning, the association encourages all companies and organizations to take a caring, leadership role, and join in the fight to keep minors out of and away from adult-oriented materials by sponsoring ASACP and its efforts.
“The online industry continues to rapidly change, embracing new platforms and processes in response to evolving consumer demands,” Henning said. “This makes for significant challenges in regards to child safety in such a fast-evolving landscape where so many people are online in so many different ways.”
“Under the best of circumstances,” Henning continued, “ASACP’s resources are stretched to their limits, but the COVID-19 crisis continues and continues to complicate our mission — especially on the travel front, where the real-life outreach to industry stakeholders that the association once relied upon has been dramatically curtailed.”
“The industry is resilient, however, spawning virtual events that seek to fill the gap in real-world encounters — but this is not the same in terms of driving awareness and the vital fundraising we must do to make a positive difference in preserving the innocence of connected youth — so more must be done," he added.
The support that ASACP receives from sponsors such as Lion’s Den, MojoHost and Segpay, explained the rep, “enable it to continue its near 24-year record of success and to provide a range of educational and informational resources,” including market-specific Best Practices, and a Code of Ethics for online businesses, app publishers and operators of age-restricted websites.
These are the ASAPC descriptions of their June 2020 sponsors:
Lion’s Den
An ASACP Title Sponsor that has supported the association since 2006, Lion’s Den is dedicated to providing the very best in adult merchandise, including a range of adult toys, magazines and DVDs, lingerie, massage oils and gifts for both bachelor and bachelorette parties, and more, through its retail superstores and over the internet.
Lion’s Den opened its first retail facility in Columbus, Ohio in 1971, and has since grown to more than 45 outlets throughout the country, building its reputation on high-quality products, low prices and a courteous sales staff.
“By treating our customers with dignity and respect we have come to form a loyal relationship with our patrons,” said a company spokesperson. “Lion’s Den fully understands that human sexuality is a personal and sensitive matter [and] it is our goal to provide the most secure and safe environment for our customers to explore eroticism without any disconcertion and to protect children from exposure to products and services intended for adults only.”
MojoHost
As a leading adult technology company, MojoHost has a generous history of supporting the industry, recognizing the vital work by ASACP when it became a sponsor a decade ago. The company specializes in adult website hosting with shared and dedicated hosting. Additional services include the MojoCDN content delivery network, MojoCloud storage and private cloud architecture, MojoShield web application firewall, MojoDomains service and more.
Founder and CEO Brad Mitchell serves on the association's Advisory Council and Executive Board and provides marketing resources. Keeping minors away from age-restricted content fits in line with his personal goals as a parent, even more than his role as a technology and thought leader.
“The ASACP needs more industry support,” stated Mitchell, who urged the community to step up. “Now more than ever, I challenge business owners to pick a membership level that they can afford, and step up no matter how small. It truly helps the organization and goes towards a critical cause in the digital age.”
Segpay
Since 2005, Segpay has helped high-risk businesses take payments quickly while implementing a compliance framework, and has supported ASACP since 2016 as a valued Corporate Sponsor.
For her part, Segpay CEO Cathy Beardsley said the company is proud to work with the association to help carry out the crucial mission of making the internet safer for minors.
“As a mother of three myself, it’s an issue that’s especially important to me and one that Segpay takes very seriously,” Beardsley explained. “Where our merchants don’t already use age verification measures, we encourage them to take advantage of ASACP’s Restricted To Adults labeling to help parents filter content that is not intended for minors.”
Beardsley said the company’s strict commitment to compliance dictates that it regularly reviews and checks its merchants’ content to identify, report and immediately shut down any child exploitation wherever it is found.
“ASACP plays a crucial role in facilitating this reporting and ensuring a trusted online environment that ultimately helps the adult industry become more accepted in mainstream society,” Beardsley concluded. “That is good for our business while helping to make the world a better place.”
“The much-appreciated generosity of industry leaders such as Lion’s Den, MojoHost and Segpay enable ASACP to carry out its vital mission to protect today’s constantly connected youth,” Henning concluded. “Featured Sponsors demonstrate that proactive leadership and corporate responsibility are hallmarks of the digital media industry and that caring and profits can and do go hand-in-hand.”
To learn more about ASACP, find the group online and on Twitter and email tim@asacp.org.