Is Sugar Dating Empowering, a Conversation with a Sociologist and Co-Founder of The Avery Center
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. Listener discretion is advised.
This week’s conversation is with exploitation and trafficking survivor turned sociologist, Megan Lundstrom. Today, Megan is a contracted trainer, consultant, national speaker, and the Co-Founder of The Avery Center, an organization dedicated to ending commercial sexual exploitation. In this episode, Megan speaks with podcast host Garrett Jonsson, about her own lived experiences of being exploited through “sugar dating” websites, and she sheds light on the impacts of a pornified culture and what has to change to end commercial sexual exploitation.
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| 0:00.0 | At what point did you start to realize then that this wasn't going to be like a sweet setup and it was going to turn bitter? |
| 0:08.8 | I don't know that I ever really fully realized that because it is marketed as this like it's really empowering and it's fun and you can there's so much potential to meet these like mystery guys that |
| 0:21.8 | are going to take you on cruises around the world you're literally being gaslit by this logic like |
| 0:26.5 | it's completely counterintuitive to where our society is going right now and I think that's a big |
| 0:33.5 | piece for people that do sugar kind of have that revelation of like, is this actually |
| 0:41.0 | empowering? |
| 0:41.9 | Like, I don't think it is because I'm still dependent on a man to be able to pay my bills at the |
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| 1:46.1 | My name is Garrett Johnson, and you're listening to Consider Before Consuming, a podcast by |
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| 2:02.6 | to make an informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness on its harmful effects |
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