This episode includes discussion of sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, coercion, and trauma responses.

Listener discretion is advised.

Today on Consider Before Consuming, we're joined by Mariah, a policy advocate focused on trafficking and online exploitation, the founder of Undox, and a survivor of sex trafficking connected

to the former website Girls Do Porn.

Mariah shares her story and what survival looked like inside a situation shaped by deception,

fear, and coercion.

She explains how trauma responses, like the fawn response, helped her get through moments

when resisting or leaving didn't feel safe,

and why behaviors that can look like consent from the outside often aren't.

She also reflects on the long aftermath of exploitation,

including living with non-consensual content online,

being drawn back in after initially getting out,

and how connection with other survivors and advocates

helped her begin making sense of what she experienced.

We talk about healing, survivor-led advocacy,

and why listening to those with lived experience

is essential to understanding how sex trafficking actually happens.

I want to thank you for joining us today, Mariah, Unconsiderable for Consuming.

We are here to talk a little bit about your story as a survivor of girls do porn.

And for any of our listeners, just a reminder that this is a conversation that we fully want you to be able to guide and feel safe

and comfortable with. And we're so grateful that you're willing to share this with our audience

to help our listeners understand what coercion can look like and what these situations can look

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