The Sex Industry: Empowering or Shaming? with Sarah Jones

The Man Enough Podcast

Wayfarer Studios LLC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Is sex work a choice? What are the impacts of sexual shame? Tony Award winning writer and actor Sarah Jones brings her dynamic perspective and diverse performed characters to an invigorating conversation about the sex industry showing up in everyday life. Once a taboo subject, it’s now all over society, from the servers at Hooters to the porn flooding the phones of young boys. Through her work on her newest film SELL/BUY/DATE, Sarah has learned the importance of sexual freedom, and centering choice and equality in all aspects of sexual life. New episodes every Monday 🎙️ The video version of every episode and bonus features will always be available on the @wearemanenough YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/WeAreManEnough ) and at https://ManEnough.com/podcast The Man Enough Podcast is produced by Wayfarer Studios and presented by Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cadence13, an Audacy company. About Sarah Jones: Called “a master of the genre” by The New York Times, Sarah Jones is a Tony Award-winning solo performer, writer, comedian and activist. She recently made her debut as a film director with the hybrid documentary SELL/BUY/DATE, produced by Oscar-Winner Meryl Streep, in which she also stars. Jones is mainly known for her multi-character one-person shows, including Broadway hit BRIDGE & TUNNEL, also originally produced by Streep, and the critically-acclaimed play SELL/BUY/DATE, which inspired the film. Renowned as “a one-woman global village,” she has also given multiple main-stage TEDTalks garnering millions of views, performed for President and First Lady Obama at the White House, and given a performance at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as the first artist on its stage normally reserved for heads of state. She has also been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, raising awareness of gender, ethnic, racial, and economic injustice and disparities, including in the United States. Show Notes 2:30 - Introducing Sarah Jones 3:35 - Meet Sarah’s Characters 4:10 - When Was The Last Time You Didn’t Feel Enough? 10:16 - Leaning into human vulnerability 15:40 - Sex work and industry in our daily lives 24:22 - Men and Sexual Shame 33:02 - The Commodification of Sex 44:19 - The Importance of Choice 57:35 - Andy's advice to men: "We have to talk to each other." 01:11:36 - What Does it Mean to be Man Enough? JOIN THE MAN ENOUGH COMMUNITY: https://instagram.com/wearemanenough https://tiktok.com/wearemanenough https://twitter.com/WeAreManEnough https://facebook.com/wearemanenough https://youtube.com/WeAreManEnough Subscribe to the Man Enough newsletter for behind the scenes, updates, sneak peeks of new episodes, and positive masculinity content: https://manenough.com/newsletter Read the Man Enough book: https://manenough.com/books Order the Boys Will Be Human book: https://boyswillbehuman.com SARAH JONES LINKS: Instagram: @yesimsarahjones Twitter: @yesimsarashjones Website: sarahjonesonline.com FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Justin Baldoni https://instagram.com/justinbaldoni https://www.tiktok.com/@justinbaldoni https://facebook.com/justinbaldoni https://twitter.com/justinbaldoni Text: +1 (310) 845-6909 Liz Plank https://instagram.com/feministabulous https://tiktok.com/@lizplank https://facebook.com/feministabulous https://twitter.com/feministabulous http://www.elizabethplank.com/ Jamey Heath https://instagram.com/jamey_heath_ https://tiktok.com/@jameyheath https://twitter.com/jamey_heath_ https://facebook.com/jameyjaz http://www.jameyheath.com/ Andy Grammer https://www.instagram.com/andygrammer/?hl=en https://twitter.com/andygrammer?lang=en https://andygrammer.com https://www.facebook.com/andygrammer/ #sexwork #sex #shame #relationships #capitalism #prostitution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey Justin Baldoni here and I just wanted to say thank you because my new book
0:04.8	Boys Will Be Human debuted at number three on the New York Times Best Seller list.
0:10.0	I never in a million years thought it would be possible.
0:12.8	There's not even a section in the bookstore for young boys,
0:16.2	and it's thanks to you in this community that had happened.
0:18.4	If you haven't picked up the book yet, it's available now,
0:20.8	anywhere you get your books, it's also on audible.
0:23.1	It's called Boys Will Be Human.
0:24.6	It's a get real gut check to becoming the strongest, kindest, bravest person you can be.
0:29.6	If you know a parent of a 11 to 100 year old boy,
0:33.6	or if you are one yourself, I promise you,
0:36.8	this book is for you.
0:39.4	Boys will be human available everywhere
0:41.8	that books are sold.
0:43.4	Coming up on Man Enough.
0:45.4	I'm not here to be anybody's moral police.
0:47.8	I'm here to say, wait a minute, we're slut-shaming and stigmatizing women and girls
0:51.4	left and right. Men and boys are alienated from themselves.
0:55.0	Your passion, like when I see both of you, all that emotion that comes up,
0:58.0	you are connected to these girls and women.
1:01.0	That thing of like using your power to subjugate another person, how do we separate that out from healthy erotica, healthy sex, enjoying sexuality, people earning money for doing whatever it is that they really choose to do
1:15.2	because they have all the choices in the world.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wayfarer Studios LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wayfarer Studios LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.