The Prostasia Conversations

Dr Gilian Tenbergen from SUNY Oswego and Candice Christiansen from the Global Prevention Project have teamed up to develop a new treatment program for minor attracted persons in New York State. We talk to them about their plans, the obstacles they have encountered, and the promise of a new approach to the primary prevention of child sexual abuse. Here are …

Journalist, author, and spanking expert Jillian Keenan explains why spanking of children amounts to sexual battery, and talks about how to educate and protect kids who have minority sexual identities. Here are the resources mentioned by Jillian during this discussion: Sex with Shakespeare Twitter YouTube Website Patreon

Award-winning speaker, writer, artist, and educator Ignacio Rivera chats with Meagan Ingerman about their intersectional and sex-positive approach to child sexual abuse prevention and healing. Here are some of Ignacio’s resources online: Ignacio G Rivera hub The HEAL Project Pure Love Talks Toolkit and Caregiver Survey (Re)Nude Sex(uality) Coaching

Guy Hamilton-Smith, Legal Fellow for the Sex Offense Litigation Policy and Resource Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, speaks about his personal story of rehabilitation, and his vision of a justice system that effectively prevents sexual violence without inflicting needless suffering. The links referred to during the episode are: Guy’s personal website Guy’s Twitter account

As Facebook announces a ban on the use of the #DDLG hashtag on Facebook and Instagram, we speak with Fay Brown, who is a counselor and founder of the survivor support program, Project Snowball. She speaks about some of the conditions that may be associated with survival of child sexual abuse such as autopedophilia and POCD (pedophilia obsessive compulsive disorder). …

Veronica Yates, Director of the Child Rights International Network, explains how childrens’ rights are human rights—and why children are not served by a too-narrow focus on protecting them from harm, rather than respecting and upholding the full range of their rights.

We speak with Andrew Puddephatt OBE, Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK charity responsible for maintaining databases of illegal images of minors, that are used by Internet companies worldwide to delete or filter out these images.

Meagan Ingerman talks to sex worker and author Maggie McNeill about how minors can be kept out of sex work, and how the stigma against sex workers makes this harder.

Dr James Cantor talks about what causes pedophilia, how it relates to child sexual abuse, how support networks for pedophiles can reduce offending, and what this all has to do with LGBTQ activism.

Pleasure educator Euphemia Russell speaks with Meagan Ingerman about her consent-focused approach to sex education for people of all ages.