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In episode one of Red Light Exposé's '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.

Links

EmpowerMen: https://empowermen.ca/

Prostitution and violence against women and girls : report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Its Causes and Consequences, Reem Alsalem: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4049148?v=pdf

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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!

Medusa Rising: https://www.medusarising.org/

Red Light Exposé: https://redlightexpose.com/

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 #WendyMurphy's experience of the American legal system as former prosecutor now lawyer and how the women's movement's internal divisions as well as outside forces threaten to undermine the past and future achievements for women's and girls' right to live full lives free from violence and dehumanization.

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Savannah Severn, Sybil Jo, and Elly Arrow discuss the worsening cost of living crisis globally, where large cities, especially, are becoming unaffordable - pushing 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 can access cheap labour, goods, and female bodies.

Sex for Rent Episode: https://youtu.be/wLws9P25o-U?si=hoNz1eWKP_8nb9ED

Sugar Dating Episode: https://youtu.be/2uPSGhwSA1E?si=IECs_e65zq1oTJYS

Gen Z Sugar Dating Article: https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-sugar-daddy-rent-crisis-gen-z-b1227972.html?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKZETdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHh88b-3fXyUf7CH9tuJ9FMtNnweo5cjJwjapy8v7WtgfSVa6PQvPEjahsAMv_aem_KO8dm9nmh9HbYM2LaRw3rA

United For ALICE: https://www.unitedforalice.org/home

South Korea’s “Bacchus Ladies”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_Ladies

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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 not impossible.

Links

nonstatetorture.org

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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.

Links

Missing Cara Website: www.missingcara.ca 

When Men Buy Sex, Who Pays? www.whenmenbuysex.ca 

Labeled Docu Series: www.justinkueber.com/work/labeleddocuseries 

Red Dress Day, started by Jamie Black: www.jaimeblackartist.com/

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - Calls to Action: publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2015/trc/IR4-8-2015-eng.pdf 

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1524494530110/1557511412801

Juanita Murphy, familial trafficking survivor advocate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUkjHYHqGxs 

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Elly Arrow interviews Co-Host Victoria G about the dark realities of male fetishism and her time in the fetish scene, exposing the realities of the BDSM trade as an industry, how it lures in, grooms, and breaks vulnerable women, and how predators like Neil Gaiman and Andrew Tate run the show.

Links

“Combating Cult Mind Control” by Stephen Hassan:

https://amzn.eu/d/0ZwxI7J

“Venus in Furs” by Leopold Von Sasher Masoch.

“Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism”:

(Still problematic but at least it spoke about maintaining relationships and where not to hit someone. Small mercies.)

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL823918M/Screw_the_roses_send_me_the_thorns

Study: “Hooked up and Tied Down the Neurological Consequences of Sadomasochism”:

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14470/

Operation Spanner: 

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/362113

https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/countdown-on-spanner-archive

“Backlash” by Susan Faludi:

https://susanfaludi.com/backlash.html

“Loving to Survive” by DLR Graham:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Loving-Survive-Dee-L-Graham/dp/0814730590

Squeeze/pressure writings by Temple Grandin:

http://grandin.com/inc/squeeze.html

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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.

Links

• SERP’s website: https://serp.ie/ 

• SERP’s Study “Facing Reality: Addressing the Role of Pornography in the Pandemic of Violence Against Women and Girls” https://serp.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WA_SERP_Report_FINAL.pdf

• Dr. Gail Dines’ organization “Culture Reframed” https://culturereframed.org/ 

• Our interview with Dr. Gail Dines & Roxie Roots: Ep. 2 “Researcher & Survivor Get Real About Porn”

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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.

Links

• Episode #2 with Roxie Roots & Gail Dines: “Researcher & Survivor Get Real About Porn”

• Jenna Jameson’s words about the porn industry: https://www.antipornography.org/jenna_jamesons_25_reasons.html 

• Linda “Lovelace” Marchiano exploited in the viral “Deep Throat” porn film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace 

• Nova Scotia’s “Preston” gang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Preston%27s_Finest 

• Understanding the Loverboy Method of Human Trafficking: https://romania.iom.int/news/understanding-lover-boy-technique-human-trafficking

• Episode #8 with Ed aka CrayonMurders: “Andrew Tate: A Deep-Dive Into The Allegations”

• Trafficking into Asian massage parlors: https://justiceco.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/asian-massage-parlors-at-a-glance-polaris.pdf 

• Swedish word “torsk” for buyers of prostitution: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torsk 

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