S1 Ep4: Sophie Mathisen

Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe

Comedy, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Thank you so much for listening – to find out more about Sophie Mathisen you can watch some of her media appearances if you pop her name in google videos and keep an eye out for her documentary about Seeking Arrangement.

🍌 The website Sophie has been researching and using is this one.

🍌 We mentioned ‘Being Jane Doe’ which is actually ‘I am Jane Doe’ and you can find out more here.

🍌 The Reply All Episode mentioned is called No More Safe Harbour and is number 119 on their feed. It’s a really balanced examination of Fosta and Sesta.

🍌 Lust Horizons is by Ellen Willis and can be found here.

🍌 The film Sixteen Candles Sophie mentions is on Netflix and Amazon.

🍌 Melissa Gira Grant's great book is called Playing the Whore and can be found on Amazon here.

🍌 My book Sex Power Money is out now in hardback / audiobook / ebook

Transcript

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0:00.0	And it's also like that I think one of the things that's kind of as the kind of me to conversation has
0:06.9	Matured that kind of dynamic you know you can see that Harvey and the women in those rooms, that was all about professional
0:17.4	access but also economic...
0:20.4	It was bartering.
0:21.4	Exclusion.
0:22.4	Yeah, but that's also why some people were so
0:24.0	dismissive of the people who were assaulted the complainants that people who
0:28.7	the victims I know people don't know the word victim anymore because they were
0:31.7	like if you went to his room you knew what you were doing
0:33.7	you thought you could swap it.
0:38.9	Hello and welcome to Sex Power Money with me Sarah Pasco.
0:43.6	Today I'm talking to Sophie Matheson.
0:46.2	Sophie is an activist filmmaker and Sugar Baby from Australia.
0:50.4	She is currently in production on her second feature film an experiential documentary about the sugar dating phenomena.
0:56.5	Today we're going to be talking about dating for cash, using the word feminist on a date, and marriage as transactional sex.
1:04.0	But it's like this is, it's kind of insane because that's exactly what the man on seeking
1:11.7	arrangements say. They're like, well, if you men on seeking arrangements say.
1:12.5	They're like, well, if you're on seeking arrangement,
1:14.4	you know exactly why you're here.
1:16.0	And it's like, do you know?
1:17.8	Like, because you don't, like, there is such a, I think,
1:22.2	the genderedness of what that knowing is.
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