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
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 programs (commonly ...
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://redli...
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.
Links
Missing Cara Website: www.missingcara.c...
Elly Arrow interviews Co-Host Victoria G about the dark realities of male fetishism and her time in the fetish scene, exposing the realities of the BDSM trade as an industry, how it lures in, grooms, and breaks vulnerable women, and how predators like Neil Gaiman and Andrew Tate run the show.
Links
“Combating Cult Mind Control” by Stephen Hassan:
“Venus in Furs” by Leopold Von Sasher Masoch.
“Screw the R...
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.
Links
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.
Links
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.
Links
Clementine Lip’s website:https://clementinelips.com/
Sex Education:https://www.netf...
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://www.generationrent.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Preda...
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.yasminemohammed.com/
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 effects on screen.
Links
Chaucer Cameron’s website: https://c...
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 violence in historical perspective: https://www.thelance...
Andrea Heinz and Mia Döring share their experiences speaking up publicly after being exploited in prostitution, what drives women to raise their voices despite fear of backlash, the weighing of that decision and its potential impact on the self and loved ones, and advice for those considering doing the same.
Links
Mia’s Twitter: https://x.com/MiaChristina_
Mia’s book “Any Girl”: https://www.miadoring.com/any-girl
Host Elly Arrow speaks to Victoria Gugenheim, a world award-winning body painter, feminist, and women’s rights activist, about her work focused on healing after sexual trauma, fighting purity & porn culture, desexualizing the female body, ending the policing of survivor activists’ appearances and cultivating joy within the movement so that dealing with heavy subjects doesn’t lead to burnout.
Links
Victoria Gugenheim’s Websit...
Hosts Andrea Heinz, Elly Arrow, and Michelle Abel return for a continued (part 2) conversation on language. In this episode, they cover colloquial terms for men who exploit women in prostitution, including “john,” “client,” “sex buyer,” and more…
Links
To listen to Pt. 1 look for “Words Matter: Language and the Sex Industry”
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This episode contains discussions of mental health, suicide and violence that may be disturbing to some listeners.
Our host Sabrinna speaks to Angela and Dottie about surviving prostitution in New Zealand, the factors that lead women into the trade, the coping strategies they develop, and the scars they live with after exiting. Their 3 experiences cover the period before, during, and after the transition from prohibition to so-call...
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