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What Is Online Sexual Abuse? Women and girls are being drugged, raped, and filmed without their knowledge or consent. The footage is uploaded to websites where millions watch and the platforms profit. The survivors often have no idea their abuse is being broadcast to the world — and when they find out, there is often nothing they can do about it.  This is online sexual exploitation and abuse — and it is not a fringe problem. It is organized, widespread, and hiding in plain sight. CNN's investigation exposed one of many platforms: U.S-owned, headquartered in New York, hosting documented rape content while running advertisements. Facing virtually no legal consequences. (https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html) Online abuse is not separate from physical violence. What happens online destroys lives offline. It is part of the same cycle of gender-based harm — and right now, U.S. law is not equipped to address it. (https://equalitynow.org/resource/factsheets/i-need-the-era-because-online-abuse-can-lead-to-offline-harm/) Why the Law Currently Fails Survivors Without the Equal Rights Amendment recognized, the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly prohibit sex-based discrimination. The sex equality gap has real consequences. The Supreme Court has already ruled that Congress cannot use existing constitutional powers to address gender-based harms that do not regulate economic activity under the Commerce Clause. Sex discrimination has weaker legal protection in U.S. courts than discrimination based on race or religion because of the lack of a constitutional basis of support. Operators of harmful platforms know this. Abusers know this. And survivors pay the price. (https://www.legalmomentum.org/amicus-briefs/united-states-v-morrison) The ERA Is Already the Law — It Just Isn't Being Enforced The Equal Rights Amendment was ratified as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on January 27, 2020, when Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it. President Biden declared it law on January 17, 2025. The American Bar Association recognizes it. Leading constitutional scholars confirm it. Seventy-eight percent of Americans support it. Opponents of sex equality are denying a constitutional right. That has to change. What Enforcing the ERA Would Do Why It Has to Be Constitutional  Laws can be repealed, gutted, or rolled back. Protections for domestic violence survivors are already being stripped away. Reproductive healthcare access is under attack. Voting rights are being restricted.- A constitutional guarantee is different. It is the floor — and it cannot be quietly removed. The Bottom Line Platforms already take down content when the law requires it. The question has never been whether they can act. It is whether the law makes them. The 28th Amendment is how we make documented rape content meet that requirement — and make sure it stays that way. The ERA does not solve the global problem of online abuse. But in the United States — where the largest platforms are owned, where the servers sit, where the audiences are — it gives survivors, advocates, and Congress the constitutional tools to ensure accountability and build protections that last. The ERA has been ratified. It is supported by the people in the U.S and recognized by the legal community. Now it must be enforced. Sex and gender equality is not negotiable. It is the law.

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