The Prostasia Conversations
37 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -The Prostasia Conversations, hosted by Noah Berlatsky, hosts a series of in-depth discussions on such discussions as sex, human rights, education, trauma recovery, and CSA prevention.
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Prostasia Conversations: Anthology
December 20, 2021 17:59 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this final anthology episode of the Prostasia Conversations for now, experts and personalities from around the world talk on child sexual abuse, human rights, and sex positivity. Here are links to the source videos: Elizabeth Letourneau on society’s failure to invest in prevention Pleasure educator Euphemia Russell speaks about her consent-focused approach to sex education for people of all … The post Prostasia Conversations: Anthology appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prostasia Conversations: Allyn Walker
November 01, 2021 21:18 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBAllyn Walker is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Their book, A Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity is one of the first scholarly studies of minor-attracted people who do not offend. I talked to Allyn about their research, the stigma attached to this population, and what … The post Prostasia Conversations: Allyn Walker appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prostasia Conversations: Andrew Pari
October 24, 2021 16:24 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBAndrew Pari is America’s leading authority on the arousal response in sexualized violence and related taboo topics in the sexual assault field. In this conversation he talks about his work on researching and treating clients who experience arousal during sexual assault. Resources: Andrew’s website: Sexual Assault Awareness An edited transcript of this conversation The post Prostasia Conversations: Andrew Pari appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prostasia Conversations: social media attacks
September 30, 2021 22:09 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBEarly in September Prostasia was the center of a social media firestorm on Twitter. The attacks started with opponents of sex workers, but soon spread across the political spectrum, including some progressives, some centrists, and many people with strong connections to alt right networks. Prostasia has been targeted before. This attack was larger and more violent than some in the … The post Prostasia Conversations: social media attacks appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
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Prostasia Conversations: sex educator for teens
August 16, 2021 12:00 - 54.7 MBAn author and the founder and director of a sex education website for teens talks to Noah Berlatsky about the obstacles they have encountered in providing sex education to young people online, teen dating during lockdown, and how young people process abuse. Note: this episode was originally published with the name of the guest and their website. These have now … The post Prostasia Conversations: sex educator for teens appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
A conversation with Micah Waxman
July 01, 2021 11:37 - 26 minutes - 59.7 MBErin Gould sits down to talk with Micah Waxman of Stop It Now — an organization dedicated to helping stop the sexual abuse of children, while also trying to gain a better understanding and providing safe outlets for those with sexual thoughts about children. Stop It Now partners with Prostasia Foundation to provide support services for MAP Support Club. Note: … The post A conversation with Micah Waxman appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prostasia Conversations: Micah
July 01, 2021 11:37 - 26 minutes - 59.7 MBErin Gould sits down to talk with Micah of Stop It Now — an organization dedicated to helping stop the sexual abuse of children, while also trying to gain a better understanding and providing safe outlets for those with sexual thoughts about children. Stop It Now partners with Prostasia Foundation to provide support services for MAP Support Club. Note: there … The post Prostasia Conversations: Micah appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prostasia Conversations: Micah Waxman
July 01, 2021 11:37 - 26 minutes - 59.7 MBErin Gould sits down to talk with Micah Waxman of Stop It Now — an organization dedicated to helping stop the sexual abuse of children, while also trying to gain a better understanding and providing safe outlets for those with sexual thoughts about children. Stop It Now partners with Prostasia Foundation to provide support services for MAP Support Club. Note: … The post Prostasia Conversations: Micah Waxman appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prostasia Conversations: Byrdy Lynn, part 2
June 01, 2021 08:52 - 23.2 MBErin Gould continues his conversation with Byrdy Lynn (author of Through The Storm Of Early Trauma : Healing & Overcoming) about her triumphant survival of early childhood trauma. In this episode, they discuss the witnessing of a murder at a young age, confronting racism in her high school, running away from home, and the sexual abuse from her childhood friend. The post Prostasia Conversations: Byrdy Lynn, part 2 appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Through the storm of early trauma: Byrdy Lynn tells her story, part 2
June 01, 2021 08:52 - 23.2 MBErin Gould continues his conversation with Byrdy Lynn (author of Through The Storm Of Early Trauma : Healing & Overcoming) about her triumphant survival of early childhood trauma. In this episode, they discuss the witnessing of a murder at a young age, confronting racism in her high school, running away from home, and the sexual abuse from her childhood friend. The post Through the storm of early trauma: Byrdy Lynn tells her story, part 2 appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prostasia Conversations: Byrdy Lynn, part 1
April 30, 2021 16:00 - 22.2 MBErin Gould chats with Byrdy Lynn about her triumphant survival of early childhood trauma, including witnessing a murder, undergoing physical and psychological abuse from her father, suffering racism in high school, being sexually abused by a sibling, running away from home, and being further sexually abused by a childhood friend. In this episode Byrdy talks about body ownership, depression, friendship, … The post Prostasia Conversations: Byrdy Lynn, part 1 appeared first on Prostasia Found...
Through the storm of early trauma: Byrdy Lynn tells her story, part 1
April 30, 2021 16:00 - 22.2 MBErin Gould chats with Byrdy Lynn about her triumphant survival of early childhood trauma, including witnessing a murder, undergoing physical and psychological abuse from her father, suffering racism in high school, being sexually abused by a sibling, running away from home, and being further sexually abused by a childhood friend. In this episode Byrdy talks about body ownership, depression, friendship, … The post Through the storm of early trauma: Byrdy Lynn tells her story, part 1 appeare...
Preventing child sexual abuse through education
December 01, 2020 20:15 - 22 minutes - 41.8 MBWe talk with Jenna Quinn about her namesake Jenna Quinn Law, a primary prevention law to ensure that children, teachers, and parents are taught about how to recognize child sexual abuse, how to intervene to prevent it from happening, and how to report it. Read more about the Jenna Quinn law on Jenna’s website, and listen to more of her … The post Preventing child sexual abuse through education appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
CSA prevention as a public health issue
November 01, 2020 17:00 - 26 minutes - 49.2 MBElizabeth Letourneau, Director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about using a public health approach to develop prevention interventions for various at-risk groups. During the presentation, Dr Letourneau refers to her TEDMED talk, Child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable. The post CSA prevention as a public health issue appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Prevention research and stigma
October 02, 2020 16:03 - 28 minutes - 52.2 MBWe talk with Lauren Stevens, a PhD candidate in the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth who is researching in child sexual victimisation prevention, about how stigma interferes with this work. The post Prevention research and stigma appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Sex education at all ages
September 01, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MBMeagan Ingerman talks with August McLaughlin, the author of Girl Boner and host of Girl Boner Radio, about her work in sex education and why it’s never too early to answer childrens’ questions about sex. The post Sex education at all ages appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
How the law failed a survivor
August 02, 2020 16:38 - 29 minutes - 53.3 MBKebryana Jones is an abuse survivor and a victim of sex trafficking as a minor. When the police were called in to rescue her and other girls from abuse, she herself ended up on sex trafficking conspiracy charges, and now faces a lifetime on the most serious tier of the sex offense registry. This is her story. The post How the law failed a survivor appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Consent Counts
July 01, 2020 01:53 - 29 minutes - 54.7 MBSusan Wright, founder and spokesperson for the National Coalition on Sexual Freedom (NCSF) chats with Meagan Ingerman about the NCSF’s Consent Counts campaign, how it has been received by police and prosecutors, and what people with “vanilla” sexual interests have to learn about consent from the kink, BDSM, fetish, leather, and non-monogamy communities. The post Consent Counts appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
How sex workers and technologists fought back against FOSTA
June 01, 2020 10:13 - 23 minutes - 44.6 MBLola Hunt and Eliza Sorensen from sex worker and technologist collective Assembly Four talk about the obstacles they had to overcome in developing their projects Switter and Tryst.link, following the passage of the anti-sexwork law, FOSTA/SESTA. Here are the links to the external resources that Lola and Eliza mention during the interview: Hacking//Hustling Maggie Mayhem Chanelle Gallant Mollie Smith and … The post How sex workers and technologists fought back against FOSTA appeared first o...
A new breakthrough in the treatment of pedophilic disorder
May 01, 2020 08:57 - 23 minutes - 44.2 MBChristoffer Rahm, Principal Investigator of the Priotab project at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, announces a breakthrough finding about the use of pharmaceuticals to reduce risk factors for some people with pedophilic disorder to commit child sexual abuse. The research paper in question has made available for open access, and can be downloaded here: Effect of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Antagonist on Risk of … The post A new breakthrough in the treatment of pedophilic disorder appeared...
Pornography, kink, and child protection
April 05, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes - 46.5 MBAdult movie star Alison Rey comes out about her history of childhood grooming, and what she believes could have prevented it. The post Pornography, kink, and child protection appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
EARN IT: The political theater of child protection
February 25, 2020 00:26 - 20 minutes - 38.3 MBProfessor Eric Goldman from Santa Clara University of Law talks with Jeremy Malcolm about the EARN IT Act, a proposed new law that would require Internet companies to comply with a checklist of child protection safeguards developed by a government committee, or else lose their immunity for content that their users upload. The post EARN IT: The political theater of child protection appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Psychologists and lawyers allied towards rational sex offense laws
February 24, 2020 14:00 - 25 minutes - 47.6 MBLaw professor Ira Ellman talks with Jeremy Malcolm about bringing together other experts to help judges to make better informed decisions in cases that test the nation’s sexual offense laws. Here are the other resources mentioned by Ira: Sex Offender Laws Are Broken. These Women Are Working To Fix Them Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center at Mitchell Hamline … The post Psychologists and lawyers allied towards rational sex offense laws appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Decriminalizing non-exploitative, non-coercive sex between adolescents
January 13, 2020 14:00 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MBLucy Minayo is Capacity Building Manager for Africa at the Center for Reproductive Rights. We talk to her about her recent publication that investigates the realities behind the criminalization of noncoercive and nonexploitative consensual sex among adolescents in Kenya. Here are links to the resources mentioned during the episode: Criminalizing Adolescence: A Call to Reform the Sexual Offences Act Legal … The post Decriminalizing non-exploitative, non-coercive sex between adolescents appe...
A new primary prevention project for minor attracted persons
December 09, 2019 17:00 - 29 minutes - 56.5 MBDr Gilian Tenbergen from SUNY Oswego and Candice Christiansen from the Global Prevention Project have teamed up to develop a new treatment program for minor attracted persons in New York State. We talk to them about their plans, the obstacles they have encountered, and the promise of a new approach to the primary prevention of child sexual abuse. Here are … The post A new primary prevention project for minor attracted persons appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Spanking fetishism and child battery
November 25, 2019 14:00 - 25 minutes - 48.7 MBJournalist, author, and spanking expert Jillian Keenan explains why spanking of children amounts to sexual battery, and talks about how to educate and protect kids who have minority sexual identities. Here are the resources mentioned by Jillian during this discussion: Sex with Shakespeare Twitter YouTube Website Patreon The post Spanking fetishism and child battery appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Holistic sexuality information and child sexual abuse prevention
October 14, 2019 13:00 - 25 minutes - 48.1 MBAward-winning speaker, writer, artist, and educator Ignacio Rivera chats with Meagan Ingerman about their intersectional and sex-positive approach to child sexual abuse prevention and healing. Here are some of Ignacio’s resources online: Ignacio G Rivera hub The HEAL Project Pure Love Talks Toolkit and Caregiver Survey (Re)Nude Sex(uality) Coaching The post Holistic sexuality information and child sexual abuse prevention appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Working towards a prevention-focused justice system
September 02, 2019 13:00 - 27 minutes - 51.6 MBGuy Hamilton-Smith, Legal Fellow for the Sex Offense Litigation Policy and Resource Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, speaks about his personal story of rehabilitation, and his vision of a justice system that effectively prevents sexual violence without inflicting needless suffering. The links referred to during the episode are: Guy’s personal website Guy’s Twitter account The post Working towards a prevention-focused justice system appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Sexual and intimacy conditions related to the trauma of abuse
August 12, 2019 14:28 - 25 minutes - 49.2 MBAs Facebook announces a ban on the use of the #DDLG hashtag on Facebook and Instagram, we speak with Fay Brown, who is a counselor and founder of the survivor support program, Project Snowball. She speaks about some of the conditions that may be associated with survival of child sexual abuse such as autopedophilia and POCD (pedophilia obsessive compulsive disorder). … The post Sexual and intimacy conditions related to the trauma of abuse appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Child rights, human rights, and child protection
July 22, 2019 12:40 - 29 minutes - 55.6 MBVeronica Yates, Director of the Child Rights International Network, explains how childrens’ rights are human rights—and why children are not served by a too-narrow focus on protecting them from harm, rather than respecting and upholding the full range of their rights. The post Child rights, human rights, and child protection appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Plumbing the sewage of the Internet
June 03, 2019 13:00 - 25 minutes - 47.9 MBWe speak with Andrew Puddephatt OBE, Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK charity responsible for maintaining databases of illegal images of minors, that are used by Internet companies worldwide to delete or filter out these images. The post Plumbing the sewage of the Internet appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Sex workers as allies against child sexual abuse
May 06, 2019 02:08 - 27 minutes - 51.9 MBMeagan Ingerman talks to sex worker and author Maggie McNeill about how minors can be kept out of sex work, and how the stigma against sex workers makes this harder. The post Sex workers as allies against child sexual abuse appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Rational approaches to pedophilia and prevention
April 02, 2019 15:24 - 28 minutes - 53.2 MBDr James Cantor talks about what causes pedophilia, how it relates to child sexual abuse, how support networks for pedophiles can reduce offending, and what this all has to do with LGBTQ activism. The post Rational approaches to pedophilia and prevention appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Teaching about pleasure, intimacy, and consent
March 06, 2019 19:37 - 23 minutes - 44.4 MBPleasure educator Euphemia Russell speaks with Meagan Ingerman about her consent-focused approach to sex education for people of all ages. The post Teaching about pleasure, intimacy, and consent appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Separating art from child sexual exploitation
February 22, 2019 16:05 - 25 minutes - 47.3 MBAs the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child proposes to change the international definition of child pornography (or child sexual exploitation material), we speak to Jillian York, Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about what this might mean. Here are links to the websites mentioned by Jillian during her interview: Santa Clara … The post Separating art from child sexual exploitation appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.
Preventing sexual offending by children and adolescents
January 14, 2019 19:35 - 26 minutes - 49.7 MBKicking off Prostasia Foundation’s podcast and vodcast series Sex, Human Rights, and CSA Prevention, we speak to David Prescott, Chair of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network (NAPN) about children and adolescents who offend sexually against other minors. Here are links to the websites mentioned by David during his interview: Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) New England Adolescent … The post Preventing sexual offending by children and adolescents appeared first...