Gail Dines on the FDS podcast

[refreshingseahorse]

Long time lurker, first time poster.
Just wanted to let people know that Dr Gail Dines is talking about porn on the FDS (female dating strategy) podcast this week and its a great listen.

Thank you for recommending

Thanks OP. I've started listening to it. Gail doesn't pull any punches, does she? Refreshingly straight talking. Will listen to the rest of it later andIve subscribed to the podcast too - I am curious about the rest of their content.

I'm so accustomed to euphemising my way through some topics that it's made me sit up to know matters can be discussed so clearly.

I need to read more about Dr Gail Dines.

She's awesome, I first heard her speak about porn culture in 2012 and was overjoyed that she was highlighting the mainstreaming of porn. She gets a lot of hate for her views, but I love her. I'd recommend her book 'Pornland'.

Such a refreshing and (in spots) humorous discussion.

Incidentally the FDS podcast is very good. I love listening to the hosts - three young women who are genuinely and unapologetically pro women and women's rights. They do not mince their words.

Gail Dines ep
open.spotify.com/episode/0y8WigyocAZiZC80kOmI4W?si=2mVEdxLUQxesbNEypm-oCg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

This was the first one I listened to and it gives a good flavour of what they're about: BDSM. Kink. Sex work. Polyamory. ENDGAME CANNIBALISM

open.spotify.com/episode/6ugDb8FmqDGX0C2enj1o1H?si=35piuDGPQ1mB906vV-urMA&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

@WarOnWoman :) I really enjoyed the BDSM and sex work vs FDS episodes.

@Doesabear I loved (not sure that's the right word but you know what I mean) Pornland! Just realised she has a lot of stuff on youtube so am now adding all of that to my queue.

I also really enjoyed the Disney episode, and the one where they address criticism from " sex work twitter"

I turned off halfway through last week's episode, I didn't think thw guest was very good.

Thank you very much for the recommendations, I was looking for new podcasts. I've started the Gail Dines episode and am enjoying it so have downloaded the others recommended here.

This is brilliant, thank you!

She leads this organisation www.culturereframed.org/
There are some great resources on their website, some of which I showed my older DC in their teens, much to their disgust (they thank me now, I think!). Some of the stats etc might be a bit out of date, but very topical at the moment for schools I would think. @refreshingseahorse I know what you mean, it's depressing but eye-opening isn't it?

Thanks for the link @Doesabear. I have signed up. I will also send the link to my DC's school so they can direct parents to it.

Thanks, OP. I'm always looking for new podcasts, will check this out.

That was the best podcast on pornography that I have ever heard. I want Gail to live in my head so that I can channel her knowledge and energy whenever needed.

Gail Dines lectures (available on YouTube).

I could weep for the clarity of her expression and thought.

Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism (1-hour lecture)

• Porn Culture and its effects on the society and violence against women (1-hour lecture)

• The Battle Lines between Radfems and (Neo) Libfems around Porn and "Sex Work" (30-minute lecture)

• Collective Grooming (5mins edit about the porn culture)

• Growing Up in a Pornified Culture (15-minute TED Talk)

• Gail Dines and porn industry (10m 30s)

Thanks for this. I followed her on twitter after reading the quote of hers about something like "imagine how many companies would go out of business if women woke up tomorrow and really liked their bodies"

Good bloody point.

I could weep for the clarity of her expression and thought.

Yes! It is her effortless lucidity and clarity of thought that I want to channel. Thanks for the other links.

Her talk reminded me so much of my time at uni in the late-90s. Lads mags, ‘girl power’, stripping as empowerment were part of the landscape. There were heated debates about ‘sex work’ happening too and that was beginning to be seen as ok and also ‘empowering’. I was definitely more on the radical feminist side although I didn’t know such a thing existed.

I hear Gail speak and it’s such what I wanted to express at the time but struggled to really clarify.

‘Just’ not ‘such’. Can’t get my words right now either!