Red Light Exposé
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.
Episodes
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 it comes to the need to safeguard w...
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 intentional and preventable.
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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.
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“Pornocracy” by Jo Bartosch and Rob Jessel (out Oct 31st, 2025): https://www.amazon.de/...
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 lining up to participate in ever more ...
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 get real about how trafficking is o...
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 might translate to the treatment of po...
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 all of this ties back to sexual exp...
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 valuable characteristics of generative ...
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 impunity with which many pornographic we...
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 struggles, and the distortion of healthy r...
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 exploitation. They also discuss offender...
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.medusarising.org/
Red Light Exposé: https...
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 forces threaten to undermine the past and f...
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.youtube.com/watch?v=SPncqJfEcZ4.
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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 for Rent Episode: https://youtu....
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...
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.
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Missing Cara Website: www.missingcara.c...
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.
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SERP’s website: https://serp.ie/
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.
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Episode #2 with Roxie Roots & Gail Dines: “Researcher & Survivor Get Real Abou...
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.
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Clementine Lip’s website:https://clementinelips.com/
Sex Education:https://www.netf...
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