Red Light Exposé

Merly Asbogard, Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow turn again to the subject of drug use in the context of sexual exploitation, going over classes of drugs one by one, with a particular focus on the active role of pimps, sex buyers, drug dealers and other exploiters intentionally using substances and addiction to exert control over victims.

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"Cover Story: Power Trip" a podcast about drugs used to coerce women sexually: https:/...

Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow speak to Derrick Jensen, co-founder of Deep Green Resistance, about the parallels and connections between the exploitation and destruction of women and children’s lives, as well as the natural world at the hands of violent men, the trauma and disembodiment this violation imperative causes to victims and perpetrators, and how to remain kind to oneself and others in the face of it.

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Derrick Jensen: https://...

Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow will discuss Louis Theroux's recent "Manosphere" Netflix documentary about men who prey on male youth's insecurities and young women's economic vulnerability to often fashion themselves into modern-day influencer-pimps.

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Netflix documentary "Inside The Manosphere" by Louis Theroux

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Elly Arrow speaks with Silvia, an anti-sexual exploitation activist from Germany, about the Pelicot case and how Dominique Pelicot and his co-perpetrators' behaviour is mirrored in the actions of pimps and johns and directly inspired by trends in online pornography and BDSM culture. They also go into the histories and take a critical look at the culture of France and Germany, respectively, to see how this connects to the Pelico...

Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow discuss the increasing trend of female celebrities using strip clubs (and in one case, escort prostitution). Is this a way to signal status? To bond over the objectification of other women like men do? What if the celebrity is an actress researching for a movie role or if the woman is an ex-dancer herself? What does it mean for the rest of us when the (American) elite declares the stripping world their socia...

Elly Arrow speaks with Caitlin Roper about “nudify” apps, AI girlfriends, and the new culture of men and boys’ digitally facilitated sexual terror against potentially anyone female, from school girls to ex-girlfriends to feminist campaigners. They go into how these practices compare to what men have been doing to so-called “sex dolls” in the shape of women and girls for years, and the targeted deepfake campaign Caitlin’s feminist g...

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.

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Cyntoia Brown: trafficked, enslaved, jailed for life at 16 – and fighting back: https://www.theguardia...

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 including more in-depth discussion o...

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 "high-class" women as "...

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 episode about pro-woman erotica: "...

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/AiN1Y3cl6z

Woman gave birth in legal ...

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 the long, difficult process of help...

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 the thousands-of-years-old history of...

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.

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“Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animal...

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 sex industry. They touch on OnlyFan...