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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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Andrea Heinz and Mia Döring share their experiences speaking up publicly after being exploited in prostitution, what drives women to raise their voices despite fear of backlash, the weighing of that decision and its potential impact on the self and loved ones, and advice for those considering doing the same.

Links

• Mia’s Twitter: https://x.com/MiaChristina_ 

• Mia’s book “Any Girl”: https://www.miadoring.com/any-girl 

• Mia’s TED Talk: https://t.co/iacBihIMyX

• Andrea’s Twitter: https://x.com/heinzsight2020 

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Host Elly Arrow speaks to Victoria Gugenheim, a world award-winning body painter, feminist, and women’s rights activist, about her work focused on healing after sexual trauma, fighting purity & porn culture, desexualizing the female body, ending the policing of survivor activists’ appearances and cultivating joy within the movement so that dealing with heavy subjects doesn’t lead to burnout.

Links

• Victoria Gugenheim’s Website and socials:

• gugenheim.co.uk 

• thatvictoriag.substack.com

• instagram.com/victoriagugenheim

• x.com/quirkathon

• facebook.com/GugenheimGlobal 

• Women Create:  womencreate.co.uk 

• Painted Powerful: paintedpowerful.substack.com 

• Article in the Radical Notion: theradicalnotion.org/the-body-as-boundary-painted-powerful 

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the “flow state”: cgu.edu/people/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi

• TED talk about the "flow state": youtu.be/fXIeFJCqsPs?feature=shared

• Maryam Namazie: maryamnamazie.com 

• Body Riot - Protest Against Mandatory Hijab: imago-images.com/search?suchtext=Topless+woman+activists+protest+Iranian+regime+in&imagepage=on&db=stock

• Note: Despite being successful on social media, this was censored on both YouTube and X. facebook.com/share/p/T9vArH9ye5vET6bb/?mibextid=qi2Omg

• Matriarchal/Matrilineal tribes who wear makeup:

• Asante people of Ghana: mmstudies.com/matriarchies/akan 

• Mosuo women in makeup: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6b5514fb18201758b96c7f/1602524611344-H2A0ZK37VJHYNEVA4I8Y/DSCF2858.jpg 

• Historic examples of freer body culture for women:

• Minoans of Crete: jstor.org/stable/jj.15136008?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&refreqid=&searchKey=

• Minoan women in high positions of power, topless snake goddesses, topless women in Fresco Art: blog.thesyntopiahotel.gr/minoan-crete-the-women-rulers

• On Bare Breasts in Ancient Greece - private parts and patriarchy: rogueclassicism.com/2012/09/20/on-bare-breasts-in-ancient-greece

• Talk: Matriarchies as Egalitarian societies: youtu.be/_rHijP0C7WI?si=QEZXKwAgWDP-LDht 

• Free The Nipple: campaignsoftheworld.com/outdoor/free-the-nipple

• Our episode on spy cam porn: “Korean Women Fighting Porn Culture”

• FiLia: www.filia.org.uk

• Andrea Dworkin “Pornography: Men Possessing Women”: archive.org/details/PornographyMenPossessingWomenAndreaDworkinPdf 

• Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain: ex-muslim.org.uk 

• One Law For All: onelawforall.org

• Trashing, the dark side of sisterhood: jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm

• The Tyranny of Structurelessness: jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

• Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy: psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-01368-000 

• Dancing in the Streets Book: amazon.com/Dancing-Streets-History-Collective-Joy/dp/0805057242 

• Kofra Women’s Center, Munich: kofra.de/layout/index.htm

• Vulva/Vagina Folklore: youtu.be/mYMWd467YT8?si=mZWL_GfpV-bFtW1x 

• How Sadness Survived - The History of Depression: www.amazon.com/How-Sadness-Survived-Evolutionary-Depression/dp/1846190134 

• Claudia Clare: claudiaclare.co.uk

• The Thin Black Line: lubainahimid.com/portfolio/the-thin-black-line

• Jennifer Packer: serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/jennifer-packer

• Orange is The New Black: netflix.com/de/title/70242311 

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Hosts Andrea Heinz, Elly Arrow, and Michelle Abel return for a continued (part 2) conversation on language. In this episode, they cover colloquial terms for men who exploit women in prostitution, including “john,” “client,” “sex buyer,” and more…

Links

To listen to Pt. 1 look for “Words Matter: Language and the Sex Industry”

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This episode contains discussions of mental health, suicide and violence that may be disturbing to some listeners.

Our host Sabrinna speaks to Angela and Dottie about surviving prostitution in New Zealand, the factors that lead women into the trade, the coping strategies they develop, and the scars they live with after exiting. Their 3 experiences cover the period before, during, and after the transition from prohibition to so-called “full decriminalization” laws, often touted as creating a reasonably safe and humane sex industry but really doing anything but.

Further Reading:

Germany + New Zealand - A Comparison in Prostitution Laws

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Our host Andrea Heinz interviews sexual recovery therapist Paul Lavergne, discussing the evolution of pornography, eroticized rage, compulsive sexuality, introspection, and course correction. Paul draws from personal experience and clinical practice.

Links

Paul Lavergne’s therapy practice TurningPoint4Me

Paul Lavergne’s YouTube channel

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Our host Elly Arrow interviews Yeonhwa Gong about the reality of prostitution in South Korea. They also touch on exploitation and misogyny in the KPop/KDrama entertainment industry, spycam porn (aka "molka"), extreme beauty culture, women’s protest movements including the 4B movement and the right-wing backlash.

Links

Yeonhwa Gong’s Twitter

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Our hosts Sabrinna and Elly Arrow interview Ed (aka Crayon Murders) who is an expert on the allegations of human trafficking against Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, currently unfolding before Romanian courts, with further cases pending. We discuss the details of the allegations, the misinformation campaign around them, and how sex work ideology - as well as Conservative tradwife ideals - helped groom the alleged victims. We also touch on the influence of the Tates on boys and young men, the outpouring of support for the brothers by right-wing influencers, and what we can do about this horrible social trajectory that’s underway as a result.

Links

Crayon Murders Twitter

Crayon Murders YouTube

MilkBarTV YouTube

Research on sex buyers’ willingness to report in Germany, Netherlands, UK, Europe

Gang tattoos in the prostitution context

Quotes by German sex buyers witnessing trafficking

Fundraiser for legal cases of UK alleged victims

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Our host Andrea Heinz interviews Neil Getzlow, an outspoken former sex buyer trying to get the message out that prostitution stems from and leads to nothing but dysfunction.

Links

Neil Getzlow’s website

Neil Getzlow’s podcast “Unmasked”

Neil Getzlow’s book “Unmasked”

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