Episode 106: Rethinking our Rethinking Porn and Sex Work Episode – Where Does it End?!

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Following on from [episode 105]([http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/04/105](http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/04/105)/), this episode is a further discussion on sex work. We (finally!) go through listener mail on our older sex work episodes – [44]([http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2013/12/29/sex](http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2013/12/29/sex)/) and [64]([http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2014/08/08/nordic](http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2014/08/08/nordic)/). We investigate the idea of [sex work as another form of labour]([http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/04/105](http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/04/105)/) as well as “First World” versus “Third World” sex work. Sources covered include: an academic study on [the psychological characteristics porn stars]([http://jezebel.com/5963606/sorry-second-wave-feminists-porn-stars-are-actually-emotionally-stable-self+confident-women-who-werent-molested-as-](http://jezebel.com/5963606/sorry-second-wave-feminists-porn-stars-are-actually-emotionally-stable-self+confident-women-who-werent-molested-as-)kids), the documentary [Date My Pornstar]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=)D_Ytffu1WrI), an [article]([http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/2014/03/08/11/19/us-student-turned-porn-star-broke-no-rules-](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/2014/03/08/11/19/us-student-turned-porn-star-broke-no-rules-)college) on a US college student doing porn to pay for her education, the [Angry Hippie on consent]([http://angryhippie.info/the-podcast-episode-81-social-construction-of-](http://angryhippie.info/the-podcast-episode-81-social-construction-of-)whiteness), and the [ICAS Oceania conference schedule]([http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/conference-schedule](http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/conference-schedule)/). _If you like what you hear, please_ [_support the show_]([http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/support](http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/support)/)_!_ **Clips:** [The Tuts]([https://thetuts.bandcamp.com](https://thetuts.bandcamp.com)/) ‘[Worry Warrior (remix)]([https://thetuts.bandcamp.com/track/worry-warrior-](https://thetuts.bandcamp.com/track/worry-warrior-)remix)’, Derek Jensen from [the CD – The Other Side of Darkness]([http://www.derrickjensen.org/purchase](http://www.derrickjensen.org/purchase)/), [The Smith Street Band]([http://thesmithstreetband.bandcamp.com](http://thesmithstreetband.bandcamp.com)/) ‘[I Love Life]([https://thesmithstreetband.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-](https://thesmithstreetband.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-)life)’. \- For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: [http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/07/106](http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/07/106)/