LOS ANGELES — ASACP has named Lion’s Den, ImLive and 7Veils Media as its Featured Sponsors for June.
"Among the industry’s most respected companies,” a rep explained, “ASACP’s Featured Sponsors offer valuable examples of how corporate responsibility, ethical operation and proactive measures help protect minors and other viewers from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials online.”
ASACP’s Executive Director Tim Henning said that the nonprofit association’s success relies on market-leading companies, organizations and service providers that are willing to assume a leadership role in the fight to keep minors out of and away from adult-oriented materials.
“By supporting the association and taking several simple steps to restrict access to their apps and sites, ASACP’s sponsors promote online child safety and help protect the innocence of youth,” Henning explained. “By educating publishers and stakeholders about the need for these measures and how they can best be implemented, ASACP continues to make a positive difference in children’s daily digital lives.”
The financial and material support that ASACP receives from its sponsors, including Lion’s Den, ImLive and 7Veils, “power its 25-year record of success and enables its free child protection resources, including market-specific Best Practices and a Code of Ethics for online businesses, app publishers and all operators of age-restricted websites,” a rep said.
June’s Featured Sponsors include:
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 via LionsDenAdult.com.
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.”
ImLive
An ASACP Corporate Sponsor since 2007, ImLive is a premium provider of live interactive webcam services that unite a large global base of individual performers and studios with customers from around the world.
This puts the company straight at the forefront of ASACP’s mission to keep minors out of and away from adult entertainment, which it does by requiring chat hosts to provide photo identification for age verification, [which is] part of a series of different identification and compliance measures, and by limiting explicit displays to paid private shows, where only adults are allowed.
Beyond these measures, and its support of ASACP, ImLive showcases its strong commitment to online child safety by making use of RTA labeling, and by offering a “warning page” overlay.
7Veils Media
An In-Kind Media Sponsor since 2013, 7Veils is the premier social media marketing firm for the adult entertainment industry. The company builds Twitter, Facebook and other strategies to integrate with a client’s overall marketing campaign, and assists ASACP in broadening and refining its social media initiatives.
“The adult industry is a leader in child protection and advocacy and it is 7Veils' privilege to be the social media outlet for this important work,” CEO Lauren MacEwen said. “7Veils chose ASACP specifically because we deeply value a need to protect our minors from sexual exploitation, be it overt or subtly concealed, and 7Veils is proud to provide the social media management for this extremely important organization.”
MacEwen is the 2015 Recipient of the ASACP Service Recognition Award.
“ASACP is grateful for and humbled by the continuing commitment, generosity and leadership displayed by our family of sponsors, including long-term contributors like Lion’s Den, ImLive and 7Veils, and we encourage other market leaders to join us in carrying our mission forward,” Henning concluded. “ASACP’s sponsors take tangible action in the ongoing battle for online child protection — and your company can, too.”
For additional details, visit ASACP online and on Twitter; contact Henning at tim@asacp.org.
