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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 force...

It's now been a full year of Red Light Exposé! Hear about what's coming down the pipeline, listen to future guests as well as past ones that you might have missed, and learn how we're currently fundraising to enable us to reach even more people with our message. This is the audio version of our raffle fundraiser from June 18th 2025. If you want to see the video, visit https://www.youtu...

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...

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 g...

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 Mi...

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 St...

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: “Researc...

Elly Arrow interviews feminist media critic & erotica author Clementine Lips about how our entertainment media promotes narratives conducive to sexual inequality, abuse, and exploitation. We discuss popular franchises such as Sex Education, Sex & The City, and how just maybe stories about sexual exploration could be told differently. Links Clementine Lip’s website: https://clementinelips.c...

Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow discuss the various forms of female homelessness, the tactics that men use to predate on women in the context of the housing market, the consequent global “sex-for-rent” crisis, and the case study of Neil Gaiman exploiting women who depended on him for shelter. Links Predatory Behaviour in the Private Rental Sector - UK Study by Generation Rent: https://www.generationrent.o...

Michelle Abel and Elly Arrow interview forced marriage & religious abuse survivor Yasmine Mohammed who fights on behalf of women, girls, gay people & non-believers trying to survive and escape Islam. We go over Islamic sexual morality and the ways it can be used to justify sexual abuse and exploitation in particular. Links Yasmine Mohammed’s website: https://www.yasminemohammed.com/   Yasm...

Merly Åsbogård and Elly Arrow interview poet and filmmaker Chaucer Cameron about her pivotal work “In an Ideal World, I’d Not Be Murdered” which blends memoir and fiction to give insight into the lives of women in 1980s London prostitution. We discuss the tools poetry provides to navigate and communicate traumatic memories, as well as how to translate or enhance these effects on screen. Links Chau...

Merly Åsbogård, Sybil Jo, and Elly Arrow discuss how society lays the groundwork for sexual exploitation by bolstering narratives that excuse perpetrators and blame victims, a medical system that is often cruel to trauma victims and mothers, a ruthless class system that is uninterested in ending poverty and finally, deep harm denial around the sex trade. Links Obstetric violence in historical pers...

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.miad...

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” Follow us: Facebook: ⁠@RedLightExposé⁠ ⁠Instagram: @RLE.podcast TikTok:...

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 tra...

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 Follow us: Facebook: ⁠@RedLightExposé⁠ ⁠Instagram: @RLE.podcas...

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 Follow us: Facebook: ⁠@RedLightExposé⁠ ⁠Instagr...

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 - hel...

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” Follow us: Facebook: ⁠@RedLightExposé⁠ ⁠Instagram: @RLE.podcast TikTok: ⁠ @redlightexpose⁠ Twitter: ⁠ @RedLightExpose YouTube: @Red...

Our hosts Andrea Heinz and Elly Arrow go into the nitty-gritty of established methods to make prostitution safer (panic buttons, cameras, "client lists", appeasement strategies, etc), how they routinely fail and at times even pose their own risks. Part 2 to last week’s episode. Links German sex buyers faking their information during Covid-19 CEASE Canada German sex buyer successfully sue...

Our hosts Andrea Heinz and Elly Arrow lay out why prostitution legalization fails to stop men from committing robbery, rape, and murder and doesn't shield women from chronic dissociation, trauma and harm. Links Andrea Heinz & Kathy King's book: "When Men Buy Sex, Who Pays" Statistics about sex buyers in Germany Statistics about women in prostitution in Germany Safety advice f...

Our hosts Savannah Severn , Merly Åsbogård and Sybil Jo discuss the reality behind the glamorous veneer often put on "sugar dating" and why everyone involved is so invested in pretending that it's not prostitution (when it clearly is). Links :Forbes article about "sugar relationships" . Follow us: Facebook: ⁠@RedLightExposé ⁠ ⁠Instagram: @RLE.podcast TikTok: ⁠ @redlightexpo...

Our hosts Andrea Heinz , Michelle Abel and Elly Arrow discuss the language we use in regards to the sex industry. Where did common terms come from, what about the myriad slurs and what might be language to use instead if we seek to highlight power differentials, exploitation and emphasize dignity for exploited people? Links: ⁠Andrea's book "Why Men Buy Sex" Robert Jay Lifton's wr...

Casandra Diamond joins our host Andrea Heinz to share her journey through the commercial sex industry and how it led her to fight the licensing of brothels and successfully push for Equality Model legislation in Canada . Links Casandra's Ted Talk Casandra's NGO BridgeNorth Follow us: Twitter: @RedLightExpose Instagram: @RLE.podcast TikTok: @redlightexpose Disclaimer: All the information pr...

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