Podcasts

This episode takes "a field trip to Times Square with Nona Willis Aronowitz, author of Bad Sex, to learn about Deep Throat, 'porno chic,' and the unresolved feminist battle over whether to eradicate pornography or make more of it. Digressions include Carol Clover, this discovery of the clitoris, and Harry Reems (Joel Reems’ distant cousin)."

Meet Aella, the daughter of evangelical Christians, turned sex worker, turned data scientist. Reason's Liz Wolfe interviewed Aella for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from how sex work made her a better data scientist to why many successful practitioners in her industry are selling not only sex but also the personal connections that so many of us are missing in our lives.

From Texas Public Radio, this is episode four of a miniseries examining sex work and San Antonio's historic red light district. In the shadow of Texas's new law making it a felony to buy of sexual services, this episode asks "How do changing laws impact the day to day lives of sex workers? And where is the line drawn between work and trafficking?"

This episode unpacks the act of having sex as a means of labor, and is an economic exploration into the world’s oldest profession and efforts to decriminalize sex work. “If you really hate it so much and you don’t want people to do it, the best thing you can do is to decriminalize it.”

DSW's Legal Director Melissa Broudo was interviewed for this episode about what happened to sex workers in New York city after the shut down in March of 2020.