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Andrea Heinz and Elly Arrow speak to Kate Quinn and Dr. Donna Hughes about the history of the sex industry abolition movement since the late 80s, its challenges and successes, and their personal long-term work in Canada and the U.S., respectively. CEASE Canada: https://www.ceasenow.org/ Dignity Journal: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/

In this livestream, Merly Åsbogård, Elly Arrow, and Sybil Jo go over examples of women individually and collectively resisting men's abuse with violent means from the Gulabi Gang movement in India, the YPJ of Northern Syria, to individual women and girls who kill their abusive partners, traffickers, or (paying) rapists. Sources: Cyntoia Brown: trafficked, enslaved, jailed for life at 16 – and...

In this livestream, Merly Åsbogård, Sybil Jo, and Elly Arrow discuss societal hypocrisy around the sexual abuse and trafficking of children, especially girls: The hypothetical child abuser is despised, but the real ones in our midst - famous or less so - are ignored if not enabled, including by our pop culture, fashion, and general treatment of girls and women.

In this episode, Andrea Heinz and Elly Arrow are in conversation with Xiangyu from Taiwan about his country’s history of military brothels under the Kuomintang Nationalist Army. They go into details about the reality for women, the men and organizations exploiting them and the underlying ideological justifications, which remain the same across time and continents. A longer version of this episode...

In today's livestream, Elly Arrow discusses why so-called "high-class" prostitution is not so different in terms of risks to women's well-being as other forms of sexual exploitation. She goes into some of the psychology of the "expensive" buyer and how women in the sector have fared at the hands of such men. This also reckons with victim-blamers who label traumatized &q...

In this livestream Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow discuss why suppression and disregard for female pleasure props up sexual exploitation, be that in conservative marriage ("maintenance sex", "wife duty") or prostitution. If women only ever experience sexuality as extractive, dissociative, and "for men," it's harder to recognize abuse of all kinds when it happens. Our epi...

In our 2nd livestream of 2026, Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow once again process the information emerging about the #Epstein files and how it ties into the global and historic reality of commercial sexual and reproductive #exploitation #trafficking women and girls at the hands of powerful men. "I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt" by Helen Rumbelow: https://t.co/...

Elly Arrow interviews veteran anti-trafficking activist and psychologist Iana Matei about the systematic exploitation of Romanian women and girls across Europe. Matei explains how trafficking networks operate, why they consistently target vulnerable girls, and how government inaction allows these systems to continue largely unchecked. She describes the rescue homes she has built for survivors and...

In this first livestream of 2026, Sybil Jo, Merly Asbogard and Elly Arrow discuss Virgina Giuffre's memoir "Nobody's Girl" where she recounts her life during and after sexual exploitation by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and myriad other powerful men. They go over key aspects of Giuffre's story, her eventual death and how it ties both into th...

Andrea Heinz interviews prominent animal rights advocate Professor Gary Francione about the universal nature of anti-exploitation ethics. They discuss life for women in the modern patriarchal world, challenges in academia, the blatant sexism found in many campaigns for animal rights, and why awakening to this phenomenon of abuse-apologetics is ultimately a gift of knowledge. Links “Why Veganism Ma...

Elly Arrow talks to Esther, Policy Advisor at Nordic Model Now and survivor of exploitation in prostitution and pornography, about the modern sex industry's downward spiral of ever more extreme acts for ever lower prices. They discuss why the industry doesn't allow for genuine female autonomy or safety and how male demands for degradation and violence are both cause and consequence of the...

This is the recording from our recent livestream to mark 11 years since the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) became law in Canada. The discussion featured: Andrea Heinz and Kathy King , co-authors of When Men Buy Sex: Who Really Pays? Michelle Abel , Vice President for Children and Youth & Global Affairs, National Council of Women of Canada Liz John-West , Executive...

Partners and families of sex buyers are often the unseen victims of commercial sexual exploitation. In this episode, Andrea Heinz reads her renowned peer-reviewed paper “A Mule for the Patriarchy: Waking Up to the Harm of Prostitution to Wives and Families,” sharing powerful insights on how women in the sex industry come to understand the betrayal trauma and financial abuse faced by buyers’ partne...

Host Elly Arrow interviews Michelle Kelly on surviving domestic violence and trafficking into prostitution, her experience of women’s shelters, exploitation in the camming industry, and fighting her way out through becoming a professional writer. They touch on negative community reactions, the lack of alternatives to reporting abusers to police, as well as the blind spot among many feminists when...

Victoria Gugenheim and Elly Arrow are joined by veteran experts Dr. Stacia West and Dr. Karl Widerquist to discuss various forms of guaranteed basic income with a focus on curbing violence against women and how innovations in programs against IPV may be applied to commercial sexual exploitation. They bust myriad myths surrounding basic income and discuss how poverty and resource deprivation is int...

In this bonus episode to our "Men For Equality" series, Rob Jessel has an all encompassing talk with Victoria Gugenheim on male hazing, grooming, prostitution, the crisis of pornified male sexuality, how men are falling in love with porn, the use of 'revelatory shame' in reclaiming healthy sexuality and much, much more. Links “Pornocracy” by Jo Bartosch and Rob Jessel (out Oct 31...

In episode eight of our #MenForEquality series, Victoria Gugenheim interviews Björn, co-founder of Male Allies Challenging Sexism (MACS), who campaign against sexual violence and exploitation. Their #NoAbusersOnStage campaign works to deplatform male artists who have harmed and raped women and girls, while #RefuseTheBait is trying to help men stop consuming porn, especially the recent trend of lin...

In episode seven of our #MenForEquality series, Savannah Severn interviews Patrick Erlandson, the founder of FatherCon, an organisation that aims to get fathers involved in the fight against human trafficking. They discuss how fathers serve as role models to sons on how to treat women, while fathers' relationships with daughters can set the stage for how she expects to be treated by men. They...

In episode six of our Men For Equality series, Merly Åsbogård interviews Swedish researcher Dr. Max Waltman, who has published extensively on the subject of exploitation in prostitution and porn. They explore the history, successes, as well as some of the limitations of the Nordic Model approach to prostitution and its contrasts with countries like Germany or New Zealand. They discuss how this mig...

In episode five of our #MenForEquality series, Red Light Exposé host Sabrinna interviews Dr. Michael Flood, Queensland University Professor, and researcher on men.  They discuss the many contradictory messages men and boys receive in our hyper-masculine culture, how better portrayals of masculinity are needed instead, how centering a feminist framework helps us all, regardless of our sex, and how...

In episode four of our Men for Equality series, host Mia Döring interviews Tom Perez, Founder and CEO of Epik Project. Tom and Mia discuss Epik's work connecting with sex buyers online at the 'point of sale' when they're attempting to purchase sex acts. Together, they break down the changing cultural influences on men's social and sexual behavior (including 0nlyFans), some valu...

In episode three of our 'Men for Equality' series, host Michelle Abel interviews Marcel Van der Watt (Ph. D.), President of the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) in Washington, DC. Together, they explore the deep connections between pornography, prostitution, and sex trafficking, shedding light on the social consequences we are witnessing today. Marcel also highlights the impu...

In episode two of our 'Men for Equality' series, host Sybil Jo interviews Cristian Eduardo, a US-based survivor of labour and sex trafficking.  They discuss the unique experiences and risks of males in the prostitution system, particularly when interacting with male sex buyers.  Taking a deep dive into the concept of masculinity, Sybil Jo and Christian examine hierarchies and power struggl...

In episode one of Red Light Exposé's 'Men for Equality' series, host Andrea Heinz interviews Hennes Doltze, Project Lead at EmpowerMen in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  Andrea and Hennes discuss abolition-focused prostitution laws, what's working and what isn't in Canada, and how men play a crucial role in improving the social and political climate around commercial sexual exploi...

Elly Arrow, Sybil Jo, Victoria Gugenheim and Esmeé Streachailt, founder of Medusa Rising , discuss bad news for the political fight against sex industry abolition in Germany right now, the current era of online exploitation and digital misogyny, the forgetting and defanging of feminist histories, the aspects of woman hate that are eternal, and much much more! Medusa Rising: https://www.medusarisin...