The Sleepover Club Special: How Pleasure Depicts The Nuances Of Sex Work, With Director Ninja Thyberg
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this live Sleepover Club special, Halima and contributing culture editor Misha MN sit down with director Ninja Thyberg to discuss her debut feature film, Pleasure. A raw and groundbreaking exploration of the adult film industry, we chat with Ninja about her decision to use actors from the adult industry, maintaining safety on set, challenging conceptions about porn, how she went from anti-porn activist to advocate, and much more.
We've also teamed up with MUBI to offer 30 free days of MUBI to all podcast listeners, meaning you can check out the film and join in our digital watch party this Monday, 20th, over on our instagram @polyesterzine. Click here to watch the film! Pleasure is now showing on MUBI in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Turkey and Latin America
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.2 | Hi, Iioni. |
| 0:02.3 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:03.9 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Ayoni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of The Four Little Sick Girls. |
| 0:11.4 | And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Zine and the co of Poliester Podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | This is a very special bonus episode day of the Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast, |
| 0:23.3 | we pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:27.3 | Before we get started, please like and review. It helps us so much. Do we have any reviews? |
| 0:32.4 | Do we want to read them out for this episode? We do, and I do. So five stars always a vibe. I love the Pliester podcast so much. |
| 0:40.9 | I like how they talk about very relevant topics, but the length of the podcast is a nice |
| 0:45.0 | bite-sized chunk so you can listen on the go. Always captivates my attention and I look forward |
| 0:49.7 | to each episode. Keep Up the Great Work Girls from Kinky job in great britain thank you i'm interesting |
| 0:56.4 | that they say they like that they're not very long i had some people tell me they wanted to be much |
| 1:00.7 | longer who so my friends said they want the protest to be longer well sound off in the comments |
| 1:05.4 | tell us what you think um so if you did want more then this is a special bonus episode. So that is great news. And we are talking about the film Pleasure. We have done a collaboration with Meb, UK, about pleasure, which is a feature film. We have lots of content on the website, including an interview with Sophia, who is the main character, and also an essay on the film's themes. |
| 1:33.4 | Halima, would you like to tell me a bit about the film? |
| 1:36.4 | It is, I think it's so hard to describe. |
| 1:39.2 | It's all about sex work, but it's also about how, I about how people think that sex work is so outside of |
| 1:46.3 | quote on quote regular work and it shows that they're the exact same that we're all suffering |
| 1:51.7 | the exact same under capitalism and i guess the truth about the sex industry or sex work or you know |
| 1:58.1 | the porn industry kind kind of in America. |
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