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  • 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 mega brothels shaped their perception of womanhood, sexuality, and the sex industry.

    Links

    BRAVO Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(magazine)

    ICQ Chat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

    Omegele Video Chat: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56085499

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  • Merly ÅsbogĂ„rd, 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.

    Links

    Obstetric violence in historical perspective: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01022-4/abstract

    “Give Birth Like A Feminist” by Milli Hill: https://www.amazon.de/Give-Birth-Like-Feminist-Milli/dp/0008313105

    “Invisible Women” by Caroline Criado Perez: https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/

    “Sado-Ritual Society” theorized in “Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism” by Mary Daly: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FIwZvpPD_lbHPZdFsdvuBs2QqBDET9zJ

    “Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exploring the Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma” by Dr. Jess Taylor https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Why-Women-Are-Blamed-Everything/dp/0244498342

    “Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them” by Dr. Jess Taylor https://www.amazon.de/Sexy-But-Psycho-Patriarchy-Against/dp/1472135512

    “Dr. Jessica Taylor Talks About Stuff” by Dr. Jess Taylor https://open.spotify.com/show/25t5CcOZuVUbLoabUB7nKq

    “The Wandering Womb Podcast” by Dr. Jess Taylor & Jaime Shrive https://open.spotify.com/show/2iCwBa9uVW89VauUAQUUvZ

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  • 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.

    Links

    Mia’s Twitter: https://x.com/MiaChristina_

    Mia’s book “Any Girl”: https://www.miadoring.com/any-girl

    Mia’s TED Talk: https://t.co/iacBihIMyX

    Andrea’s Twitter: https://x.com/heinzsight2020

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  • 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.

    Links

    Victoria Gugenheim’s Website and socials:

    gugenheim.co.uk

    thatvictoriag.substack.com

    instagram.com/victoriagugenheim

    x.com/quirkathon

    facebook.com/GugenheimGlobal

    Women Create: womencreate.co.uk

    Painted Powerful: paintedpowerful.substack.com

    Article in the Radical Notion: theradicalnotion.org/the-body-as-boundary-painted-powerful

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the “flow state”: cgu.edu/people/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi

    TED talk about the "flow state": youtu.be/fXIeFJCqsPs?feature=shared

    Maryam Namazie: maryamnamazie.com

    Body Riot - Protest Against Mandatory Hijab: imago-images.com/search?suchtext=Topless+woman+activists+protest+Iranian+regime+in&imagepage=on&db=stock

    Note: Despite being successful on social media, this was censored on both YouTube and X. facebook.com/share/p/T9vArH9ye5vET6bb/?mibextid=qi2Omg

    Matriarchal/Matrilineal tribes who wear makeup:

    Asante people of Ghana: mmstudies.com/matriarchies/akan

    Mosuo women in makeup: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6b5514fb18201758b96c7f/1602524611344-H2A0ZK37VJHYNEVA4I8Y/DSCF2858.jpg

    Historic examples of freer body culture for women:

    Minoans of Crete: jstor.org/stable/jj.15136008?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&refreqid=&searchKey=

    Minoan women in high positions of power, topless snake goddesses, topless women in Fresco Art: blog.thesyntopiahotel.gr/minoan-crete-the-women-rulers

    On Bare Breasts in Ancient Greece - private parts and patriarchy: rogueclassicism.com/2012/09/20/on-bare-breasts-in-ancient-greece

    Talk: Matriarchies as Egalitarian societies: youtu.be/_rHijP0C7WI?si=QEZXKwAgWDP-LDht

    Free The Nipple: campaignsoftheworld.com/outdoor/free-the-nipple

    Our episode on spy cam porn: “Korean Women Fighting Porn Culture”

    FiLia: www.filia.org.uk

    Andrea Dworkin “Pornography: Men Possessing Women”: archive.org/details/PornographyMenPossessingWomenAndreaDworkinPdf

    Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain: ex-muslim.org.uk

    One Law For All: onelawforall.org

    Trashing, the dark side of sisterhood: jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm

    The Tyranny of Structurelessness: jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

    Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy: psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-01368-000

    Dancing in the Streets Book: amazon.com/Dancing-Streets-History-Collective-Joy/dp/0805057242

    Kofra Women’s Center, Munich: kofra.de/layout/index.htm

    Vulva/Vagina Folklore: youtu.be/mYMWd467YT8?si=mZWL_GfpV-bFtW1x

    How Sadness Survived - The History of Depression: www.amazon.com/How-Sadness-Survived-Evolutionary-Depression/dp/1846190134

    Claudia Clare: claudiaclare.co.uk

    The Thin Black Line: lubainahimid.com/portfolio/the-thin-black-line

    Jennifer Packer: serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/jennifer-packer

    Orange is The New Black: netflix.com/de/title/70242311

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  • 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


    Links

    To listen to Pt. 1 look for “Words Matter: Language and the Sex Industry”

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  • This episode contains discussions of mental health, suicide and violence that may be disturbing to some listeners.

    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 3 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.

    Further Reading:

    Germany + New Zealand - A Comparison in Prostitution Laws

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  • 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 personal experience and clinical practice.

    Links

    Paul Lavergne’s therapy practice TurningPoint4Me

    Paul Lavergne’s YouTube channel

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  • 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.

    Links

    Yeonhwa Gong’s Twitter

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  • Our hosts Sabrinna and Elly Arrow interview Ed (aka Crayon Murders) who is an expert on the allegations of human trafficking against Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, 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 tradwife 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.

    Links

    Crayon Murders Twitter

    Crayon Murders YouTube

    MilkBarTV YouTube

    Research on sex buyers’ willingness to report in Germany, Netherlands, UK, Europe

    Gang tattoos in the prostitution context

    Quotes by German sex buyers witnessing trafficking

    Fundraiser for legal cases of UK alleged victims

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  • 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.

    Links

    Neil Getzlow’s website

    Neil Getzlow’s podcast “Unmasked”

    Neil Getzlow’s book “Unmasked”

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  • 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.

    Links

    German sex buyers faking their information during Covid-19

    CEASE Canada

    German sex buyer successfully sues woman for not giving him an orgasm

    Safety advice for women in prostitution in Germany, in Italy, in New Zealand

    Child sexual exploitation survivor Cyntoia Brown granted clemency after 15 years in prison for killing abuser in self-defense

    Women get higher sentences for homicide of their partners despite many cases of self-defense, example of Helen Naslund

    Elly Arrow reacting to sauna club brothel “Paradise” TV report

    700 shell companies, most of them brothels, laundering money in Canada

    Study on femicide in the German prostitution industry

    Elly Arrow’s additional analysis of German prostitution femicides

    Melissa Farley’s paper “Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart”

    Prostitution homicide rates in the U.S., in the U.K.

    Linda MacDonald & Jean Sarson works on Non-State Torture

    Elly Arrow’s YouTube video on Legal Torture in Prostitution

    German prostitution survivor organization “Netzwerk Ella” founded by scholar, PhD student, writer & survivor activist Huschke Mau

    The Equality Model approach to prostitution that we support

    Comparing Germany & New Zealand's prostitution policy

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  • 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.

    Links

    Andrea Heinz & Kathy King's book: "When Men Buy Sex, Who Pays"

    Statistics about sex buyers in Germany

    Statistics about women in prostitution in Germany

    Safety advice for women in prostitution in Germany, in Italy, in New Zealand

    Femicide in the German prostitution industry

    German sex buyer quotes revealing a violent environment

    Women in prostitution taking HIV-PrEP

    German prostitution survivor Huschke Mau's blog

    Comparing Germany & New Zealand's prostitution policy

    The reality of open prostitution in communities like Holbeck, Leeds, UK

    Andrea Heinz's paper: "A Mule for the Patriarchy: Waking Up to the Harm of Prostitution to Wives and Families"

    Woman in legal German brothel (later busted for trafficking) says she's happy she can say no sometimes when she couldn't previously

    German retired police detective gives insight into the criminal nature of the industry

    "The Myth of the Safe and Privileged High-Class Hooker"

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  • Our hosts Savannah Severn, Merly ÅsbogĂ„rd 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).Links:Forbes article about "sugar relationships".

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  • 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?

    Links:

    ⁠Andrea's book "Why Men Buy Sex"

    Robert Jay Lifton's writing on cults

    Children referred to as "sex workers" by governments, lobby groups, NGO

    Maggie McNeill calling exploited children "underage wh0res"

    Bettina Flitner's photo series of sex buyers in Germany

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  • 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.

    Links⁠Dr. Gail Dines Website

    Dr. Gail Dines NGO "Culture Reframed"

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  • 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.

    Links

    Casandra's Ted Talk

    Casandra's NGO BridgeNorth

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