Sex, Human Rights, and CSA Prevention

In 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.

Allyn Walker is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Their book The 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.

Andrew 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.

Early 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.

An 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.

Erin 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.

Erin 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.

Erin 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 appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.

We 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.

Elizabeth 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.

We 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.

Meagan 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.

Kebryana 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.

Susan 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.

Lola 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 on Prostasia Foundation.

Christoffer 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 first on Prostasia Foundation.

Adult 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.

Professor 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.

Law 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.

Lucy 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 appeared first on Prostasia Foundation.

Dr 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.

Journalist, 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.

Award-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.

Guy 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.

As 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.