Elly Arrow interviews Ruth Breslin, director of The Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute in Ireland, on the state of research regarding internet porn's impact on young people’s self-image, ideas about gender roles, sexuality, and safety. If ever we needed a wake-up call, here are the numbers and facts that should propel us to act.
Michelle Abel, Andrea Heinz, and Elly Arrow discuss the language used for third-party exploiters in the commercial sex industry. How come “pimp” and “manager” are both prevalent? What feels different between “pornographer” and “adult film producer”? We finish with more examples of how the media could talk if interested in exposing abuse.
Elly Arrow interviews feminist media critic & erotica author Clementine Lips about how our entertainment media promotes narratives conducive to sexual inequality, abuse, and exploitation. We discuss franchises, such as Sex Education, Sex & The City, and how - just maybe - stories about sexual exploration could be told differently.
Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow discuss the various forms of female homelessness, the tactics that men use to predate on women in the context of the housing market, the consequent global “sex-for-rent” crisis, and the case study of Neil Gaiman exploiting women who depended on him for shelter.
Michelle Abel and Elly Arrow interview forced marriage & religious abuse survivor Yasmine Mohammed who fights on behalf of women, girls, gay people & non-believers trying to survive and escape Islam. We go over Islamic sexual morality and the ways it can be used to justify sexual abuse and exploitation in particular.
Merly Åsbogård and Elly Arrow interview poet and filmmaker Chaucer Cameron about her pivotal work “In an Ideal World, I’d Not Be Murdered” which blends memoir and fiction to give insight into the lives of women in 1980s London prostitution. We discuss the tools poetry provides to navigate and communicate traumatic memories, as well as how to translate or enhance these effects on screen.
Roxie Roots and Elly Arrow discuss growing up in Germany on the cusp of the internet age and how family and peer attitudes as well as magazines, TV, and the visible presence of prostitution shaped their perception of womanhood, sexuality, and the sex industry.
Merly Åsbogård, Sybil Jo, and Elly Arrow discuss how society lays the groundwork for sexual exploitation by bolstering narratives that excuse perpetrators and blame victims, a medical system that is often cruel to trauma victims and mothers, a ruthless class system that is uninterested in ending poverty and finally, deep harm denial around the sex trade. of that decision and its potential impact on the self and loved ones, and advice for those considering doing the same.
Andrea Heinz and Mia Döring share their experiences speaking up publicly after being exploited in prostitution, what drives women to raise their voices despite fear of backlash, the weighing of that decision and its potential impact on the self and loved ones, and advice for those considering doing the same.
Host Elly Arrow speaks to Victoria Gugenheim, a world award-winning body painter, feminist, and women’s rights activist, about her work focused on healing after sexual trauma, fighting purity & porn culture, desexualizing the female body, ending the policing of survivor activists’ appearances and cultivating joy within the movement so that dealing with heavy subjects doesn’t lead to burnout.
Hosts Andrea Heinz, Elly Arrow, and Michelle Abel return for a continued (part 2) conversation on language. In this episode, they cover colloquial terms for men who exploit women in prostitution, including “john,” “client,” “sex buyer,” and more…
Our host Sabrinna speaks to Angela and Dottie about surviving prostitution in New Zealand, the factors that lead women into the trade, the coping strategies they develop, and the scars they live with after exiting. Their three experiences cover the period before, during, and after the transition from prohibition to so-called “full decriminalization” laws, often touted as creating a reasonably safe and humane sex industry but really doing anything but.
Our host Andrea Heinz interviews sexual recovery therapist Paul Lavergne, discussing the evolution of pornography, eroticized rage, compulsive sexuality, introspection, and course correction. Paul draws from his personal experience and from clinical practice.
Our host Elly Arrow interviews Yeonhwa Gong about the reality of prostitution in South Korea. They also touch on exploitation and misogyny in the KPop/KDrama entertainment industry, spycam porn (aka "molka"), extreme beauty culture, women’s protest movements including the 4B movement and the right-wing backlash.
Our hosts Sabrinna and Elly Arrow interview Ed (aka Crayon Murders), an expert on the allegations of human trafficking against Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, currently unfolding before Romanian courts, with further cases pending. We discuss the details of the allegations, the misinformation campaign around them, and how sex work ideology - as well as Conservative ideals - helped groom the alleged victims. We also touch on the influence of the Tates on boys and young men, the outpouring of support for the brothers by right-wing influencers, and what we can do about this horrible social trajectory that’s underway as a result.
Our host Andrea Heinz interviews Neil Getzlow, an outspoken former sex buyer trying to get the message out that prostitution stems from and leads to nothing but dysfunction.
Our hosts Andrea Heinz and Elly Arrow go into the nitty-gritty of established methods to make prostitution safer (panic buttons, cameras, "client lists", appeasement strategies, etc), how they routinely fail and at times even pose their own risks. Part 2 to last week’s episode.
Our hosts Andrea Heinz and Elly Arrow lay out why prostitution legalization fails to stop men from committing robbery, rape, and murder and doesn't shield women from chronic dissociation, trauma and harm.
Our hosts Savannah Severn, Merly Åsbogård and Sybil Jo discuss the reality behind the glamorous veneer often put on "sugar dating" and why everyone involved is so invested in pretending that it's not prostitution (when it clearly is).
Our hosts Andrea Heinz, Michelle Abel and Elly Arrow discuss the language we use in regards to the sex industry. Where did common terms come from, what about the myriad slurs and what might be language to use instead if we seek to highlight power differentials, exploitation and emphasize dignity for exploited people?
Porn researcher Dr. Gail Dines joins our hosts Elly Arrow and Roxie Roots, who is a survivor of the porn industry, to talk about the impact of modern internet porn on young people and sexual culture, the reality of recruitment into the industry and treatment of women on set, the mechanism behind OnlyFans and what the future may hold in regards to AI porn.
Casandra Diamond joins our host Andrea Heinz to share her journey through the commercial sex industry and how it led her to fight the licensing of brothels and successfully push for Equality Model legislation in Canada.
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