Autism is my super blessing! I'm a high-school valedictorian, college graduate, world traveler, disability advocate. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. I'm a Progressive Liberal. I'm about equal rights, human rights, civil & political rights, & economic, social, &cultural rights. I do servant leadership, boundless optimism, & Oneness/Wholeness. I'm good naked & unashamed! I love positive personhood, love your neighbor as yourself, and do no harm! I'm also appropriately inappropriate! My self-ratings: NC-17, XXX, X, X18+ & TV-MA means empathy! I publish shows at 11am! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 84 days 5 hours 51 minutes
episode 82: The Service’ Captures the Messy and Mundane Realities of Sex Work in the UK
"There’s a line towards the end, when the dust is settling a bit, that really punched me in the gut, about “how people keep making lives for themselves”. It kind of felt to me like the overarching theme of the book. That everyone is just trying to live, and shouldn’t they be treated with equal compassion regardless of their ways of living. The way it’s written feels very accessible, very human...
episode 83: Sex Work & Stigma: Examining the Problematic Representation of Sex Workers in Popular Culture
"Sex workers themselves are not inherently trafficked through their job profession, and there are plenty of individuals who find empowerment and/or economic stability in selling sex to consumers. Nobody who is arguing for the legalization of sex work is saying that we should legalize sex trafficking, and presenting a false equivalency between the two only serves to stigmatize sex workers even further into the fringes of our society...
episode 85: Drugs and violence negatively impacting the sex industry
People facing drug addiction should be mental health treatment mandated, unworthy of prosecution.
"Risk factorsPeople of any age, sex, or economic status can become addicted to a drug. However, certain factors can affect the likelihood and speed of developing an addiction:
- Family history: If a person has a closely related family member that consumes drugs, it is more likely for them to also consume drugs...
episode 87: Proper adult sex industry guidelines
Equal pleasure Women's pleasure matters. Our female characters have their own sex drive and desires, and are not passive objects focused primarily on pleasuring the men. Represent all people equally and respectfully. Do not reduce performers to any primal feature, whether that be body shape, ability, age or ethnicity. We pay every person fairly, from interns to performers...
episode 88: Why I can be a porn star and a feminist at the same time
"There's always this idea that a woman who does porn is disrespecting herself, but I completely disagree. Ultimately, yes, I am selling my body. I am doing the most vulnerable thing you can do - having sex - and I'm doing it in front of everyone in the world. So for me, I've always done it my own way; I've always been very stubborn and very in control - it was my way or the highway with directors and other actors. That was empowering...
episode 89: Why Are Sex Scenes So Unrealistic in TV and Movies?
"I suppose you could say that sex on screen is like an edited version of sex in real life, and of course they are there for entertainment purposes and serve as plot devices, but there is a distinct lack in truly realistic sex scenes out there.
By realistic here, I don't necessarily mean graphic. You could have a realistic sex scene without any nudity whatsoever if executed correctly. Of course nudity plays a part in real-life sex, but it doesn't always have a place on TV...
episode 90: Ethical erotica and ethical porn are the same thing to me
Softcore pornography or softcore porn, is commercial still photography or film that has a pornographic or erotic component but is less sexually graphic and intrusive than hardcore pornography, defined by a lack of sexual penetration. Softcore pornography includes stripteases, lingerie modeling, simulated sex and emphasis on the sensual appreciation of the female or male form...
episode 91: My interest in the adult industry
"Film screenshots: Many actors and actresses have done nude or partially nude scenes in non-pornographic mainstream films. Screenshots from these films are circulated widely and can usually be recognized by the low picture quality (from video). Increased popularity of broadband internet access makes possible the distribution of actual video clips and higher quality images, usually copied from DVDs. Often screenshots of these scenes are displayed in several frames as tiles...
episode 92: What Is Sex-Positive Porn and Why We All Need It. Let’s liberate women’s sexuality — with the help of porn.
As Erika Lust summarises it:
“Pornography has been made by and for men. In mainstream porn everything is about male pleasure and women are objects. Oral sex for men can last forever, but when women’s turn comes it lasts 10 seconds. Female orgasms are not an issue in most of the films. And women are shown mostly as prostitutes, which is sad. Mainstream porn lacks creativity and a narrative...
episode 93: The reality of sex work is that it is work; the people who do it should be free from harassment, coercion and violence
"Advocates, lawmakers and law enforcement officials have criticized the law, calling it unnecessary and exploitative. Derek Marsh, who trains California police in best practices on human trafficking cases, called the exemption "antiquated at best."
The law "doesn't help your case, and at worst you further traumatize someone," he told the AP...