Episodes
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In this final anthology episode of the Prostasia Conversations for now, experts and personalities from around the world talk on child sexual abuse, human rights, and sex positivity. Here are links to the source videos: Elizabeth Letourneau on society’s failure to invest in prevention Pleasure educator Euphemia Russell speaks about her consent-focused approach to sex education for people of all …
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Allyn Walker is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Their book, A Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity is one of the first scholarly studies of minor-attracted people who do not offend. I talked to Allyn about their research, the stigma attached to this population, and what …
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Andrew Pari is America’s leading authority on the arousal response in sexualized violence and related taboo topics in the sexual assault field. In this conversation he talks about his work on researching and treating clients who experience arousal during sexual assault. Resources: Andrew’s website: Sexual Assault Awareness An edited transcript of this conversation
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Early in September Prostasia was the center of a social media firestorm on Twitter. The attacks started with opponents of sex workers, but soon spread across the political spectrum, including some progressives, some centrists, and many people with strong connections to alt right networks. Prostasia has been targeted before. This attack was larger and more violent than some in the …
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An author and the founder and director of a sex education website for teens talks to Noah Berlatsky about the obstacles they have encountered in providing sex education to young people online, teen dating during lockdown, and how young people process abuse. Note: this episode was originally published with the name of the guest and their website. These have now …
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Erin Gould sits down to talk with Micah of Stop It Now — an organization dedicated to helping stop the sexual abuse of children, while also trying to gain a better understanding and providing safe outlets for those with sexual thoughts about children. Stop It Now partners with Prostasia Foundation to provide support services for MAP Support Club. Note: there …
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Erin Gould continues his conversation with Byrdy Lynn (author of Through The Storm Of Early Trauma : Healing & Overcoming) about her triumphant survival of early childhood trauma. In this episode, they discuss the witnessing of a murder at a young age, confronting racism in her high school, running away from home, and the sexual abuse from her childhood friend.
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Erin Gould chats with Byrdy Lynn about her triumphant survival of early childhood trauma, including witnessing a murder, undergoing physical and psychological abuse from her father, suffering racism in high school, being sexually abused by a sibling, running away from home, and being further sexually abused by a childhood friend. In this episode Byrdy talks about body ownership, depression, friendship, …
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We talk with Jenna Quinn about her namesake Jenna Quinn Law, a primary prevention law to ensure that children, teachers, and parents are taught about how to recognize child sexual abuse, how to intervene to prevent it from happening, and how to report it. Read more about the Jenna Quinn law on Jenna’s website, and listen to more of her …
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Elizabeth Letourneau, Director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about using a public health approach to develop prevention interventions for various at-risk groups. During the presentation, Dr Letourneau refers to her TEDMED talk, Child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable.
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