Elly Arrow interviews Michelle Kelly on surviving domestic violence and trafficking into prostitution, her experience of women’s shelters, exploitation in the camming industry, and fighting her way out through becoming a professional writer. They touch on negative community reactions, the lack of alternatives to reporting abusers to police, as well as the blind spot among many feminists when it comes to the need to safeguard women against forced abortions. Centrally, they analyze how placating the sex buyer closely mirrors managing the volatility of the domestic abuser.
Victoria Gugenheim and Elly Arrow are joined by veteran experts Dr. Stacia West and Dr. Karl Widerquist to discuss various forms of guaranteed basic income with a focus on curbing violence against women and how innovations in programs against IPV may be applied to commercial sexual exploitation. They bust myriad myths surrounding basic income and discuss how poverty and resource deprivation is intentional and preventable.
In this bonus episode to our Men For Equality series, Rob Jessel has an all encompassing talk with Victoria Gugenheim on male hazing, grooming, prostitution, the crisis of pornified male sexuality, how men are falling in love with porn, the use of 'revelatory shame' in reclaiming healthy sexuality and much, much more.
In episode 8 of our Men For Equality series, Victoria Gugenheim interviews Björn, co-founder of Male Allies Challenging Sexism (MACS), who campaign against sexual violence and exploitation. Their #NoAbusersOnStage campaign works to deplatform male artists who have harmed and raped women and girls, while #RefuseTheBait is trying to help men stop consuming porn, especially the recent trend of lining up to participate in ever more dangerous and humiliating acts done to women on OnlyFans. Björn also gets personal about his own journey quitting porn and holding himself to account.
In episode 7 of our Men For Equality series, Savannah Severn interviews Patrick Erlandson, the founder of FatherCon, an organisation that aims to get fathers involved in the fight against human trafficking. They discuss how fathers serve as role models to sons on how to treat women, while fathers' relationships with daughters can set the stage for how she expects to be treated by men. They get real about how trafficking is often intra-community, with victims, perpetrators, but also those who can make a difference, being all local. They discuss how elevating meaningful connections and trust over short-term pleasure and (male) entitlement leads to more safety and happiness for all.
In episode 6 of our Men For Equality series, Merly Åsbogård interviews Swedish researcher Dr. Max Waltman, who has published extensively on the subject of exploitation in prostitution and porn. They explore the history, successes, as well as some of the limitations of the Nordic Model approach to prostitution and its contrasts with countries like Germany or New Zealand. They discuss how this might translate to the treatment of pornography, including Sweden’s recent move to rein in OnlyFans.
In episode 5 of our Men for Equality series, host Sabrinna interviews Dr. Michael Flood, Queensland University Professor, and researcher on men. They discuss the many contradictory messages men and boys receive in our hyper-masculine culture, how better portrayals of masculinity are needed instead, how centering a feminist framework helps us all, regardless of our sex, and how all of this ties back to sexual exploitation.
In episode 4 of our Men for Equality series, host Mia Döring interviews Tom Perez, Founder and CEO of Epik Project. Tom and Mia discuss Epik's work connecting with sex buyers online at the 'point of sale' when they're attempting to purchase sex acts. Together, they break down the changing cultural influences on men's social and sexual behavior (including 0nlyFans), some valuable characteristics of generative masculinity, and what meaningful accountability for sex purchasers looks like.
In episode 3 of our Men for Equality series, host Michelle Abel interviews Marcel Van der Watt (Ph.D.), President of the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) in Washington, DC. Together, they explore the deep connections between pornography, prostitution, and sex trafficking, shedding light on the social consequences we are witnessing today. Marcel also highlights the impunity with which many pornographic websites continue to operate and encourages listeners to take a stand, becoming ambassadors for dignity and respect.
In episode 2 of our Men for Equality series, host Sybil Jo interviews Cristian Eduardo, a US-based survivor of labour and sex trafficking. They discuss the unique experiences and risks of males in the prostitution system, particularly when interacting with male sex buyers. Taking a deep dive into the concept of masculinity, Sybil Jo and Christian examine hierarchies and power struggles, and the distortion of healthy relationships when social narratives on masculinity don't make space for men to be vulnerable, gentle, or equitable.
In episode 1 of our Men for Equality series, host Andrea Heinz interviews Hennes Doltze, Project Lead at EmpowerMen in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Andrea and Hennes discuss abolition-focused prostitution laws, what's working and what isn't in Canada, and how men play a crucial role in improving the social and political climate around commercial sexual exploitation. They also discuss offender programs (commonly known as "john schools") and how more awareness and resources are needed to ensure men have the opportunity to heal themselves and become accountable for their actions.
Savannah Severn, Sybil Jo, and Elly Arrow discuss the worsening cost of living crisis from the U.S. to the U.K. to South Korea, where large cities, especially, are becoming unaffordable, which pushes the young and sometimes the old, but overwhelmingly women, into commercial sexual exploitation. They discuss how poverty is no accident, but intentionally engineered so wealthy men have access to cheap labour, goods, and female bodies.
Andrea Heinz and Michelle Abel interview Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson, two survivors, nurses, and the originators of the term and movement against “non-state torture” (NST). Linda and Jeanne explain how “torture” relates to prostitution, porn, trafficking and intimate partner violence. They discuss the battle for the recognition of NST and its application to men’s violence against women and girls in places like the UN, as well as the resistance, even from many women. They finish on paths of healing even from extreme trauma and that a fulfilling life after abuse is possible.
For Red Dress Day, observed on May 5th, April-Eve Wiberg interviews Kathy King, mother of Cara King, one of Canada’s thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. They speak about the systemic sexual exploitation resulting from colonialism, intergenerational trauma, poverty, addiction, and failing institutions, as well as the survivor and family-led movement fighting back.
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.
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.
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?
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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