Trauma Training: How Society Enables Sexual Exploitation

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.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01022-4/abstract 

• “Give Birth Like A Feminist” by Milli Hill: https://www.amazon.de/Give-Birth-Like-Feminist-Milli/dp/0008313105 

• “Invisible Women” by Caroline Criado Perez: https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/ 

• “Sado-Ritual Society” theorized in “Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism” by Mary Daly: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FIwZvpPD_lbHPZdFsdvuBs2QqBDET9zJ 

• “Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exploring the Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma” by Dr. Jess Taylor https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Why-Women-Are-Blamed-Everything/dp/0244498342 

• “Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them” by Dr. Jess Taylor https://www.amazon.de/Sexy-But-Psycho-Patriarchy-Against/dp/1472135512 

• “Dr. Jessica Taylor Talks About Stuff” by Dr. Jess Taylor https://open.spotify.com/show/25t5CcOZuVUbLoabUB7nKq 

• “The Wandering Womb Podcast” by Dr. Jess Taylor & Jaime Shrive https://open.spotify.com/show/2iCwBa9uVW89VauUAQUUvZ 

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