In this livestream, Merly Åsbogård, Sybil Jo, and Elly Arrow discuss societal hypocrisy around the sexual abuse and trafficking of children, especially girls: The hypothetical child abuser is despised, but the real ones in our midst - famous or less so - are ignored if not enabled, including by our pop culture, fashion, and general treatment of girls and women.

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 of modern-day prostitution policy and sex work ideology originally aired on Xiangyu’s podcast Strait Talk.

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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 "professional failures" and abolitionists who frequently label them "patriarchal collaborators" and "traitors".

Elly Arrow's essay: https://ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/the-myth-of-the-safe-and-privileged-high-class-hooker/

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is arrested and charged: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t#player