Deepfake Porn, Break Ups & Mental Health with Jennifer Savin

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Jennifer Savin, who is the features editor at Cosmopolitan UK. Jennifer talks all about deepfake porn, why women are more likely to be impacted by it, and how long it can take laws to catch up with technology. What’s the balance between protecting yourself from internet image abuse while not censoring yourself online? Jennifer and Hannah also talk about how damaging break-ups can be to people’s mental health, whether you can or should avoid being in contact with exes after break-ups, and how important it is to let people know if you’re struggling. Jennifer shares her own experience of attempting to take her own life after a break-up, and why we need to stop dismissing people’s pain around break-ups and take their experiences seriously. Finally, and Hannah discuss advice for break-up mental health care, and getting back to basics to help you care for yourself.

CW: discussion of suicide from the beginning of the episode

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Doing It, the Sex and Relationships podcast where sex has never been so nerdy, with me, your host, Hannah Whitten.
0:15.1	This week, I am joined by Jennifer Savin.
0:17.6	Jennifer is Cosmopolitan UK's award-winning features editor, whose work regularly
0:22.3	sees her go undercover to explore and expose issues important to young women today.
0:27.9	She is passionate about covering mental health, often writing personal pieces about anxiety and
0:32.4	depression, cultural trends and feminist issues.
0:36.1	She regularly campaigns for abortion rights,
0:38.4	recently helping persuade MPs to vote in favour
0:41.0	of keeping the option of pills by post abortions in England,
0:44.7	and intimate image abuse such as the threat of revenge porn.
0:48.2	Jennifer's recent report on the Deepfake porn epidemic
0:51.6	was featured in a BBC documentary,
0:53.6	Deepfake Porn Could You Be Next?
0:55.7	Which she also acted as a consultant on. I wanted to get Jennifer on the show to share some of what
1:01.2	she's learned about deep fake porn and personal advice she's learned about how breakups can impact mental health.
1:08.2	Jennifer and I chatted all about deep fake porn. what it is, why women are more likely to be impacted
1:13.4	by deep fake porn, and how a friend being a victim of it
1:16.4	made Jennifer want to deep dive research into it.
1:19.7	We discussed the complicated balance
1:21.3	between protecting yourself from internet image abuse
1:24.5	whilst not censoring yourself as a woman online. Jennifer told me about what current
1:29.3	laws look like around deep fake porn and how they are essentially non-existent. However, since recording
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