Elly Arrow discusses why so-called "high-class" prostitution is not so different in terms of risks to women's well-being as other forms of sexual exploitation. She goes into some of the psychology of the "expensive" buyer and how women in the sector have fared at the hands of such men. This livestream also reckons with victim-blamers who label traumatized "high-class" women as "gold diggers" or "professional failures" and abolitionists who frequently label them "patriarchal collaborators" and "traitors".
In today's livestream, Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow will discuss why suppression and disregard for female pleasure props up sexual exploitation, be that in conservative marriage ("maintenance sex", "wife duty") or prostitution. If women only ever experience sexuality as extractive, dissociative, and "for men," it's harder to recognize abuse of all kinds when it happens.
Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow once again process the information emerging about the Epstein files and how it ties into the global and historic reality of commercial sexual and reproductive exploitation/trafficking women and girls at the hands of powerful men.
In this first livestream in 2026, Sybil Jo, Merly Asbogard and Elly Arrow discuss Virgina Giuffre's memoir "Nobody's Girl" where she recounts her life during and after sexual exploitation by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and myriad other powerful men. They go over key aspects of Giuffre's story, her eventual death and how it ties both into the thousands-of-years-old history of sexual slavery and the current moment.
Elly Arrow, Sybil Jo, Victoria Gugenheim, and Esmeé Streachailt, founder of Medusa Rising, discuss bad news for the political fight against sex industry abolition in Germany right now, the current era of online exploitation and digital misogyny, the forgetting and defanging of feminist histories, the aspects of woman hate that are eternal, and much much more!
Wendy Murphy joins Elly Arrow and Victoria Gugenheim to discuss what's missing in the debate on porn and prostitution, how we hope to bring those conversations to a wider audience through the podcast, how it ties into Wendy Murphy's experience of the legal world as former prosecutor now lawyer. We also get into how the women's movements internal divisions and as well as outside forces threaten to undermine the past and future achievements for women and girls right to live full lifes free from violence and dehumanization.
It's now been a full year of Red Light Exposé! Hear Andrea Heinz, Elly Arrow, and Merly Åsbogård about what's coming down the pipeline, listen to future guests as well as past ones that you might have missed, and learn how we're currently fundraising to enable us to reach even more people with our message.
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