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The sexual exploitation industries have been extremely successful in penetrating (pun intended) every layer of society - and like Gail Dines calls it - “pornifying our culture”.
But amid full decriminalization of prostitution, the rise of OnlyFans and Pornhub, pervasive global sex trafficking, and social media providing exploiters and predators free and open access to vulnerable populations - the liberal myth of sexual self-empowerment is cracking.
This in part because survivors of the sex trade are finally talking, being heard, weighing in in the debate and getting politically active - in numbers. Defying the shame and the stigma, women are writing books, appearing in media and waging political campaigns - and insisting that we listen to their accounts of what sexual exploitation really looks and feels like on the receiving end.
In this episode, psychotherapist and author Mia Döring talks to Elle about her new book Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery about her experiences in the Dublin sex trade, the damage it wrought, and the importance of truth-telling to our collective healing.
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The sexual exploitation industries have been extremely successful in penetrating (pun intended) every layer of society - and like Gail Dines calls it - “pornifying our culture”.
But amid full decriminalization of prostitution, the rise of OnlyFans and Pornhub, pervasive global sex trafficking, and social media providing exploiters and predators free and open access to vulnerable populations - the liberal myth of sexual self-empowerment is cracking.
This in part because survivors of the sex trade are finally talking, being heard, weighing in in the debate and getting politically active - in numbers. Defying the shame and the stigma, women are writing books, appearing in media and waging political campaigns - and insisting that we listen to their accounts of what sexual exploitation really looks and feels like on the receiving end.
In this episode, psychotherapist and author Mia Döring talks to Elle about her new book Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery about her experiences in the Dublin sex trade, the damage it wrought, and the importance of truth-telling to our collective healing.

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