Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I have Jessica Barr on today's episode.

Jessica Sky Barr is a relationship and individual coach and founder of Relationshifting.com.

She holds a bachelor's degree in media studies and has an in-depth

understanding of how the media impacts our lives and shapes our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Jessica is soon to complete her master's degree in

mental health counseling so she can become a licensed therapist

specializing in couples counseling, adult attachment, healthy sexuality,

and intimacy disorders including compulsive sexual behaviors

porn and sex addiction and the partners and families affected by it. She is a

feminist and activist who brings this important lens to the topic of pornography, sexuality, and relationships.

She is also on the board of directors of Culture Reframed, a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Gail Dines, who I'm going to have on the podcast soon,

whose mission is to build resilience and resistance

to hyper-sexualized media and porn.

The combination of feminism, media studies, and mental health informs her critical. and

mental health informs her critical perspectives on the myriad of ways

digital sex and hypersexualization impact

individuals, relationships, and cultures. Welcome, Jessica. Thank you. I'm glad to be here.

So I'd like to start with talking about feminism and why

pornography is a feminist issue and also why it's a human rights issue

and also why it's a human rights issue.

Can you start talking about that? Because there are so many

feminists who claim that pornography empowers women. Yeah I'm happy to

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