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The Hey, welcome to Media Roots Radio.

This is your host for today, Robbie Martin.

Unfortunately, Abby can't join me today.

She's busy. Her kid is growing up. It's very exciting. But she had to take a little break this month.

But if shit really goes off between now and

inauguration, then she'll definitely be back with me for a little update of some kind.

We might even add some kind of addendum to our next podcast. But we already have a podcast in

the can, ready to go after this one, an interview with Dr. Susan Block, a long time sex counselor,

sex therapist, who has a lot of interesting things to say about

the Trump era. We have a really interesting discussion about obscenity laws in the United

States, how sex workers have been stifled online and been censored online. Ever since the

beginning of the internet, it's not really a new thing

that social media networks are censoring people because sex workers have experienced it

ever since they've been around but in general uh the discussion is interesting it's a little

different than what we've done on media routes before and And I think I make a pretty good case for why

this should be a left issue. But more importantly, sort of a contrast between how we have this sort

of oversexed, overstimulated culture here in the United States and in the West with all the wide

availability to pornography. But running simultaneously with that,

we have sort of a chilling effect in the air with obscenity laws, with websites that are

afraid to host certain content and new laws hanging and looming over sex workers' heads

that pretty much take away their ability to make money. We'll go into a lot of

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