Red Light Exposé

Mar 07 2025 23 ep. 74 mins 33

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Red Light Exposé is an international grassroots survivor-led circle seeking to combat “sex work” ideology. We aim to raise awareness of the harms of commercializing sex, and the industries (prostitution, porn, stripping, BDSM/kink) that exploit socioeconomically marginalized people, particularly women and girls. We support the adoption of Equality Model legislation worldwide while calling for an improvement in social security. Through honest, in-depth conversations we aim to elevate voices that are often ignored and silenced, moving us toward healthier and safer societies for all people.

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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.LinksSERP’s website: https://se

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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 R

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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.LinksClementine Lip’s website:https://c

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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://

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Jan 12 2025 77 mins

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.yasmine

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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 effec

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Nov 05 2024 63 mins

Roxie Roots and Elly Arrow discuss growing up in Germany on the cusp of the internet age and how family and peer attitudes as well as magazines, TV, and the visible presence of mega brothels shaped their perception of womanhood, sexuality, and the sex industry. Links BRAVO Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(magazine) ICQ Chat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ O

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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 violenc

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