Women for sale: Private matter or public crisis? AFTERNOON session, 9 November 2024, London.

This is the livestream for the AFTERNOON session of the upcoming ‘Women for sale: Private matter or public crisis?’ conference organised by Nordic Model Now! on 9 November 2024.

AFTERNOON PROGRAMME:

1:40pm: The sex industry: A conducive context for male violence?

• Emily Husain: Welcome.

• A short film that juxtaposes prostitution adverts, sex buyer (punter) reviews and survivor testimony.

• Valérie Tender: Punter Reviews - Adding insult to injury. How does it feel when a woman involved in prostitution reads the reviews that punters have left about her?

• Linda Thompson: Money and Power – A brief overview of the global sex industry, its power dynamics and links with mainstream culture.

• Merly Åsbogård: Sexual exploitation as VAWG. Speaking from her own experience of prostitution along with her academic research, Merly will explain why we need to understand sexual exploitation as violence against women and girls (VAWG) and how that violence runs through the whole of society – it does not end with the individual prostitution encounter.

• Julia Long: Pornification: the sex industry as a model for male / female relations. This talk will provide a radical feminist analysis of the pornification of culture, looking at how the sex industry informs wider social relations between women and men, including the construction of femininity and heterosexuality.

• Q&A/discussion.

3.10pm: Break

3.20pm: Closing plenary

• Emily Husain: Welcome back.

• Kellie Ziemba: Not a private matter. Kellie will discuss the themes covered during the course of the day and confirm that women being on sale in the sexploitation and surrogacy industries is indeed a public crisis that urgently needs addressing.

• Emily Husain: Call to action.

• Reem Alsalem. United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences.

• Q&A

• Heli St Luce sings 'All The Fun Girls'.

4.30pm: Event ends.

For speaker bios, see https://nordicmodelnow.org/2024/09/27....