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The Dragon in Your Brain: Let’s Talk About the Fear That’s Holding You Back
What’s the one dream you’d chase if you weren’t afraid? We’re diving into the neuroscience of fear to understand the one fear that holds you back, and how you can finally start to tame that ancient, powerful dragon in your brain.
Unmasking You: The Messy, Beautiful Art of Authenticity
It’s more than a buzzword. How do you define authenticity for yourself? Let’s explore what it truly means to be you and how to courageously close the gap between who you are and who you pretend to be.
The Superpower You’re Afraid to Use: Rethinking the Role of Vulnerability
Explore the surprising power that comes from embracing vulnerability. This isn’t about weakness; it’s about the courage to be seen and how that courage can transform your relationships and your life. What role does vulnerability play for you?
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A History of Sex as a Business 10 | Where Do We Go From Here: Laws, Justice, and Human Dignity
Five thousand years of history bring us to the hardest questions: what policies actually protect people, what evidence says about different approaches, and what it would mean to organize our response to commercial sex around the genuine interests of the most vulnerable people involved.
A History of Sex as a Business 09 | The Digital Turn: Platforms, Algorithms, and OnlyFans
The internet transformed commercial sex as radically as anything since the industrial revolution — enabling greater autonomy for some, creating new vectors for exploitation for others, and producing a legislative and ethical landscape that nobody has figured out how to navigate. This episode examines FOSTA-SESTA, OnlyFans, the trafficking-platform debate, and where we actually stand.
A History of Sex as a Business 08 | The Business Model: How the Industry Actually Works
Beneath the historical narrative is an economic structure — one characterized by specific mechanisms of recruitment, control, and profit extraction that have remained remarkably consistent across centuries and continents. This episode examines the business of commercial sex as a business: how it actually operates, how exploitation is maintained, and where the money actually goes.
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.