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A new primary prevention project for minor attracted persons
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,
Spanking fetishism and child battery
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 ...
Holistic sexuality information and child sexual abuse prevention
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 Rive...
Working towards a prevention-focused justice system
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 vio...
Sexual and intimacy conditions related to the trauma of abuse
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 associ...
Child rights, human rights, and child protection
Veronica Yates, Director of the Child Rights International Network, explains how childrens’ rights are human rights—and why children are not served by a too-narrow focus on protecting them from harm, rather than respecting and upholding the full range ...
Plumbing the sewage of the Internet
We speak with Andrew Puddephatt OBE, Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK charity responsible for maintaining databases of illegal images of minors, that are used by Internet companies worldwide to delete or filter out these images.
Sex workers as allies against child sexual abuse
Meagan Ingerman talks to sex worker and author Maggie McNeill about how minors can be kept out of sex work, and how the stigma against sex workers makes this harder.
Rational approaches to pedophilia and prevention
Dr James Cantor talks about what causes pedophilia, how it relates to child sexual abuse, how support networks for pedophiles can reduce offending, and what this all has to do with LGBTQ activism.
Teaching about pleasure, intimacy, and consent
Pleasure educator Euphemia Russell speaks with Meagan Ingerman about her consent-focused approach to sex education for people of all ages.