Discover why the real motivation behind doing great things isn’t about being the star in the room. This editorial explores passion, connection, and finding fulfillment beyond applause.
How to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick in 2025?
In this episode of English Plus Podcast, we delve into the common pitfalls of New Year’s resolutions and share practical tips to make them more achievable in 2025. Starting with relatable anecdotes and moving towards actionable advice, we cover setting SMART goals, focusing on progress over perfection, and leveraging accountability.
Develop a Thick Skin: Survive Rejection, Criticism, and the Cold Shoulder
Learn how to develop resilience against criticism, rejection, and dismissiveness in our latest editorial. Discover practical strategies to stay creative, learn from feedback, and keep moving forward with a healthy, balanced mindset.
Don’t Give Up: The Real Journey Behind Success
Feeling stuck in your journey? Our latest editorial dives into why slow progress is still progress and why adapting, learning, and not giving up is the key to achieving your dreams. Read more for real-life stories and inspiration!
How Kind Will You Be This Christmas?
Discover the true meaning of Christmas—a celebration of giving, kindness, and peace that transcends traditions. This heartfelt editorial explores how small acts of care can transform lives and bring hope to a world in need.
Can You Really Resist Hatred in Your Life?
Explore how letting go of hatred can free your mind and make space for joy, love, and growth. Discover why resisting hatred is essential for living a fuller, happier life.
How Critical Are You Really?
Do we focus too much on finding flaws online? Discover how to balance critical thinking with appreciation and why it’s important to commend the good as much as we critique the bad. Learn how to avoid crossing into cyberbullying and become a more thoughtful, encouraging voice online.
Are You a Content Creator or a Content Curator?
Explore the role of AI in creativity and the fine line between content creation and curation. Are we losing our unique voices by relying too heavily on technology, or can AI help us create with more meaning and intention? Discover the balance in this week’s English Plus Magazine editorial.
Do You Really Know As Much As You Believe You Do?
Explore how short-form content shapes our understanding and the risks of thinking we know more than we do. This editorial dives into the importance of lifelong learning in an age of information overload.
Winning Right, Losing Well: The True Test of Character in Conflict
Explore how to handle victories and defeats with grace. Whether in personal battles or global conflicts, real strength lies in moving on with respect. Learn why being a greedy winner or a sore loser only leads to more trouble.
Recent Posts
A History of Sex as a Business 07 | The 20th Century: Wars, Migration, and the Criminalization Wave
The twentieth century saw two world wars that massively expanded military commercial sex economies, massive migration patterns that created new trafficking vulnerabilities, and a wave of criminalization campaigns that often made things worse for the people they claimed to help. This episode traces how the modern policy landscape was created.
A History of Sex as a Business 06 | Victorian Shadows: The Underground Economy of the Empire
Victorian Britain preached sexual purity while building one of the most extensive commercial sex economies in European history. This episode examines the extraordinary contradiction between Victorian public morality and private practice, the Contagious Diseases Acts, the underground networks of London’s streets, and the investigative journalism that exposed child exploitation and changed the law.
A History of Sex as a Business 05 | The Colonial Export: Race, Empire, and the Global Trade
European colonialism didn’t just extract gold, spices, and land from colonized peoples — it also created and exploited systems of sexual commerce that were explicitly organized around race. This episode examines how empire built racialized sex economies across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
A History of Sex as a Business 04 | Courtesans, Kings, and the Politics of Pleasure
In Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire, certain women leveraged beauty, intelligence, and proximity to power into remarkable — if precarious — social positions. This episode explores the cortigiana onesta, the imperial harem, and the Japanese geisha as case studies in how women navigated systems that simultaneously celebrated and constrained them.
A History of Sex as a Business 03 | The Middle Ages: God, Sin, and Regulation
The medieval Church condemned commercial sex as mortal sin — and then many of the same institutions that preached that message either tolerated or directly profited from licensed brothels. This episode explores the extraordinary contradiction at the heart of medieval sexuality and the economic logic that drove it.
A History of Sex as a Business 02 | Greece, Rome, and the Architecture of Desire
From the intellectual companionship of Athenian hetaerae to the licensed brothels of imperial Rome, this episode examines how two of history’s most influential civilizations built elaborate social and legal structures around the commodification of sex — and who paid the price.