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

In this livestream Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow discuss why suppression and disregard for female pleasure props up sexual exploitation, be that in conservative marriage ("maintenance sex", "wife duty") or prostitution. If women only ever experience sexuality as extractive, dissociative, and "for men," it's harder to recognize abuse of all kinds when it happens.Jenni Gage "Life, Take Two!" YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@lifetaketwo7662Andrea Dworkin's "Right Wing Women": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/377163.Right_Wing_WomenAudre Lorde's "The Erotic As Power": https://mundoshabitables.com/media/pages/biblioteca/los-usos-de-lo-erotico/14b68e0eeb-1754436835/the-uses-of-the-erotic-audre-lorde.pdfBonnie Blue in conversation with Louise Perry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA7tLTZltKIStephani Soo's "Rotten Mango" podcast on the OneTaste cult: https://www.rottenmangopodcast.com/allepisodes/azzlktkme97rwnr-ljfja-yemel-myw9k-8egyy-fl4cr-dp9er-j8r56-8kz25-argpa-b69p4-2nnhd-lnp54-trlee-bb4ma-ph63k-47828-xk9en-tlktj-tmdw2-g5ckl-datge-bz4hs-j6jhs-2gcsm-dxht2-xc5wc-dnwsn-3695y-t4wa7-4h4fpDaniella Mestyanek Young's "Uncultured: A Memoir": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808316-uncultured

In our 2nd livestream of 2026, Sybil Jo and Elly Arrow once again process the information emerging about the #Epstein files and how it ties into the global and historic reality of commercial sexual and reproductive #exploitation #trafficking women and girls at the hands of powerful men.

"I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt" by Helen Rumbelow: https://t.co/AiN1Y3cl6z

Woman gave birth in legal brothel: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/verzweiflungstat-prostituierte-wirft-neugeborenes-aus-dem-fenster-a-524105.html

Switzerland raises minimum age for prostitution from 16 to 18: https://www.news.admin.ch/de/nsb?id=52245

Our episode on Neil Gaiman and men exploiting women's unstable housing: "How Men Like Neil Gaiman Use “Sex-For-Rent” To Exploit Women"

Elly Arrow covering prostitution advertising: https://youtu.be/LJ1uwLiRSiI?si=vPBGx4LKWM43c9_A

Artist Suzzan Blac's extraordinary art processing her trauma: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2022/08/12/suzzan-blac-discusses-her-life-trauma-and-extraordinary-art/

Gates Foundation funding anti STI/HIV strategies that are overtly pro-prostitution: https://c-fam.org/turtle_bay/myth-sex-work-named-shamed/

Woody Allen's history of abusing girls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen_sexual_abuse_allegation

Our episode with Jean Sarson & Linda MacDonald: "Prostitution Is Non-State Torture: Meet The Women Fighting It!"

Their website: https://nonstatetorture.org/

The earliest Epstein whitleblower, Karen Mulder: https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qv0xdd/supermodel_karen_mulder_tried_to_ring_the_alarm/

Feminist singer-songwriter Paris Paloma: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdNen4E3nI4P5_5M8s1hz1w