We talk with Lauren Stevens, a PhD candidate in the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth who is researching in child sexual victimisation prevention, about how stigma interferes with this work.

Meagan Ingerman talks with August McLaughlin, the author of Girl Boner and host of Girl Boner Radio, about her work in sex education and why it’s never too early to answer childrens’ questions about sex.

Kebryana Jones is an abuse survivor and a victim of sex trafficking as a minor. When the police were called in to rescue her and other girls from abuse, she herself ended up on sex trafficking conspiracy charges, and now faces a lifetime on the most serious tier of the sex offense registry. This is her story.

Susan Wright, founder and spokesperson for the National Coalition on Sexual Freedom (NCSF) chats with Meagan Ingerman about the NCSF’s Consent Counts campaign, how it has been received by police and prosecutors, and what people with “vanilla” sexual interests have to learn about consent from the kink, BDSM, fetish, leather, and non-monogamy communities.

Lola Hunt and Eliza Sorensen from sex worker and technologist collective Assembly Four talk about the obstacles they had to overcome in developing their projects Switter and Tryst.link, following the passage of the anti-sexwork law, FOSTA/SESTA. Here are the links to the external resources that Lola and Eliza mention during the interview: Hacking//Hustling Maggie Mayhem Chanelle Gallant Mollie Smith and …

Christoffer Rahm, Principal Investigator of the Priotab project at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, announces a breakthrough finding about the use of pharmaceuticals to reduce risk factors for some people with pedophilic disorder to commit child sexual abuse. The research paper in question has made available for open access, and can be downloaded here: Effect of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Antagonist on Risk of …

Adult movie star Alison Rey comes out about her history of childhood grooming, and what she believes could have prevented it.

Professor Eric Goldman from Santa Clara University of Law talks with Jeremy Malcolm about the EARN IT Act, a proposed new law that would require Internet companies to comply with a checklist of child protection safeguards developed by a government committee, or else lose their immunity for content that their users upload.

Law professor Ira Ellman talks with Jeremy Malcolm about bringing together other experts to help judges to make better informed decisions in cases that test the nation’s sexual offense laws. Here are the other resources mentioned by Ira: Sex Offender Laws Are Broken. These Women Are Working To Fix Them Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center at Mitchell Hamline …

Lucy Minayo is Capacity Building Manager for Africa at the Center for Reproductive Rights. We talk to her about her recent publication that investigates the realities behind the criminalization of noncoercive and nonexploitative consensual sex among adolescents in Kenya. Here are links to the resources mentioned during the episode: Criminalizing Adolescence: A Call to Reform the Sexual Offences Act Legal …