Red Light Exposé

Elly Arrow speaks to Liz Ortenburger, CEO of SafeNest (Nevada's largest NGO serving domestic violence victims) about porn's impact on youth and how to adults can begin to talk to kids about a subject, that makes even a lot of us deeply uncomfortable and unable to know where to begin, but which is essential to help prevent and identify child abuse of all kinds. Links: SafeNest.org: https://...

Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow discuss Stück, a co-working-space-meets-BDSM-dungeon, which just opened in London. It marks a new extreme in terms of BDSM's invasion of the public sphere, but certainly isn't unprecedented considering all-time-high rates of BDSM practices in young people's sex lives, the increased normalization of fetish gear worn in public, and the proliferation of sadistic pr...

For most trick-or-treaters, the Witch is a campy Halloween character, symbolizing nothing more serious than sweet treats and fantasy magic. Even those familiar with the history of Europe’s infamous “witch hunts,” typically view these figures as backwards, superstitious nonsense, a mass hallucination, a relic of “primitive” “dark” times, before humanity was lifted out of religious madness into rati...

Elly Arrow and Sybil Jo are joined by Emelee Dahla to trace her life story through childhood internet stardom, grooming by men and “choice feminist” rhetoric into exploitation on OnlyFans, and her ultimate self-liberation from the porn industry and toward real feminist analysis and advocacy. We touch on the many myths surrounding OnlyFans among both supporters and critics, the psychological and cu...

Elly Arrow and Savannah Severn are joined by screenwriter and director Diana to dive into the first two seasons of the Netflix hit show "Bridgerton" and its treatment of the pseudo-Regency era marriage market, how the female and male characters navigate its perils respectively, and the ideas transported about love, sex(ual exploitation), patriarchy, racism, and class oppression, in due c...

In Part 1 of "Inanna's Journey through the Underworld", we used a 5,000-year-old myth to explore how the sexual exploitation industry strips victim-survivors of all their worldly possessions, leaving us bare - materially, mentally and spiritually - and in a state of living-death. In this part 2, we learn how the Queen of Heaven and Earth, with the help of her loyal friends, is saved from the clutc...

Andrea Heinz interviews Céline Manon Martin about the mutual vulnerabilities that led them into the sexual exploitation industry, the impact of entertainment media on entering prostitution, and Céline’s previous pro-industry advocacy. Together, they reflect on how much they’ve changed in their understanding of self-love and self-respect, and how collective liberation should replace self-abandonmen...

After last week's stream going over serial-killer and pornographer R. C. Hörsch's live trajectory and how law enforcement, the art world and the porn industry kept not seeing what was right in front of them, this conversation between Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow is focused on the women whose lives were cut short by his brutal misogyny, their families quest for a semblance of justice and why we...

R.C. Hörsch was a career criminal, pornographer, and prolific misogynist. He is also suspected of committing at least 5 femicides. Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow investigate how and why someone like Hörsch was positively received in parts of the art world and in the porn industry, and why, conversely, he did his best to legitimize filmed and photographed sexual exploitation of women. Sources:

The presence of armies makes commercial sexual exploitation spike; however, the attitudes soldiers show toward prostituted women and women in pornography easily and frequently affect their treatment of other women, too, especially those who fight alongside them. In this livestream, Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow go into prominent cases of male military personnel attacking their female colleagues and the...

The U.S. military constitutes a prolific sexual exploiter of women, children, and young men across the world. In this livestream, Elly Arrow and Sybil Jo discuss an in-depth report about the U.S. military presence in South Korea and the fall-out for the local community and the women exploited by G.I. Joes, the unplanned children that result, and the utterly destructive male-female occupier-occupie...

Andrea Heinz speaks to Renze Nauta of Cardus, a non-partisan think-tank in Canada, about his recent report titled "Is 'Sex Work' Actually Work? Human Dignity, Liberty, and Prostitution Policy in Canada". They trace the history of the prostitution debate in Canada, policy results of a Nordic model with only partial implementation, the reality for exploited women and why at its cor...

Modern psychiatry often treats trauma as an illness or injury to be corrected.  In this episode, Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow will explore an alternate view, through the ancient Sumarian myth of Inanna.  The Queen of Heaven and Earth loses everything, including her Self as she knows it, to travel to the World of the Dead.  She returns transformed, with other-worldly Strength and Wisdom.   What if “trau...

Investigators seeking to identify child abuse victims and hold their tormentors to account are dealing with a torrent of AI-generated material that looks convincingly real. Meanwhile, a U.S. federal appeals court just ruled that private possession of AI-generated child abuse material is legally sanctioned under the First Amendment. Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow dive into the situation and what perfidiou...

In this episode, Elly Arrow speaks to Derek Smith of the Derek Smith Law Group about the reality and legal situation for persons - usually women - enduring sexual harassment at work and how this form of predation mirrors commercial sexual exploitation. They touch on current and historic events such as the Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas, Weinstein as well as P.Diddy/Sean Combs cases and finally, how...

The term "AI girlfriend" is emerging, but therapist Paul Lavergne thinks the term "AI sl*t" is more fitting to describe the mentality of men who consume this new form of digital sexual exploitation. In this live stream, he shares with Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow his experiences treating men addicted to such material, what he observes studying websites that offer it, and the ramific...

A recent BBC investigation revealed what some feminists have warned for a while: The swinging scene is repeatedly the site not of libertine unbridled joy, but of abuse of women by men. A number of men have responded to the dearth of genuine female volunteers for swinging by both hiring women in prostitution and coercing their wives and girlfriends into participation. In Germany, the trafficking in...

Elly Arrow and Sybil Jo conclude the conversation on the Trump-Epstein connection and the indicators that it produced Donald Trump's last marriage to Melania neé Knauss. They open with a discussion of Trump's (alleged) perpetrations of rape and assault in the Epstein ring context and outside, go over what's known of Melania's life story, their meeting, relationship, and why, despite all indicators...

In this episode, Elly Arrow speaks to Izabella about her childhood in Romania, her traumatic youth and young adulthood that led her into commercial sexual exploitation, the reality of legal brothels in Austria and Switzerland, and experiencing the Swedish response to prostitution, which ultimately made it possible for her to exit and rebuild her life. Today Izabella works for Talita, a Swedish org...

"Pretty Woman" - potentially the most famous film ever made about prostitution, and certainly the highest-grossing - is often cast as an optimistic  love story transcending prejudice and class divide. In this livestream, Elly Arrow and Sabrinna do a deep dive on the movie's history, content, and ultimate legacy. Upon closer inspection, the dynamics it portrays are a lot more concerni...

Elly Arrow and Sybil Jo continue their conversation about Donald Trump's serial predation and the ways it mirrors and/or constitutes prostitution. This livestream focuses on his proven abuse of Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels, her life story and activism to out him as a predator, and the response by the public and media, miscasting his violence as an "affair". This continues fr...

Blake Lively, as well as dozens of actresses and crew members of the "It Ends With Us" film production, allege that systematic sexual harassment and coercion - often surrounding intimate and nude scenes - occurred at the hands of director and co-star Justin Baldoni and some of his friends and colleagues. Elly Arrow and Sybil Jo are joined by Brent MacLerie to discuss the allegations, how...

Screenwriter and director Diana joins Elly Arrow and Sybil Jo to discuss the reality of professional and independent filmmaking regarding nudity, sex scenes, and the treatment of child and adult actors by directors, producers, and other powerful men. The conversation also goes into the depiction of sexual exploitation and violence in cinema and TV from around the world. To tune in for our conversa...

Competing narratives surround the current First Lady of the U.S. after further Epstein Files revelations, which some say put Melania Trump in Epstein's orbit. In this livestream, Elly Arrow, and Sybil Jo discuss the various allegations against 90s modeling agents including Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and the hellish landscape they created for women and girls, which give us an indication as to...

In this episode, Andrea Heinz interviews Human Trafficking Detective Dan Hall to explore the realities of investigating exploitation, the challenges of building cases rooted in coercion and psychological control, and the misconceptions that often prevent the public from recognizing trafficking when it happens. Detective Hall shares insights into the complex dynamics that keep survivors connected t...