Have We Got the Sex Industry All Wrong?: The Stigma of Sex Work with Amanda Goff
08/06/23 • 34 min
Amanda Goff is a bestselling author, journalist, and former escort under the alter ego name of Samantha X. Amanda started her career as a tabloid journalist in her hometown of London before moving to Sydney in 2000, where she worked in TV and magazines. Then at 37, after two kids and separation, Amanda completely changed her life.
After walking out of her nine-to-five job. Amanda became Australia’s most high-profile escort Samantha X. Since then, Amanda has written two best-selling books and was the focus of constant media attention, gaining fans and critics worldwide. Deciding to leave the escort business, Amanda now lives life unapologetically, despite facing global judgement and stigma. Now, Amanda continues to inspire women to lead the life they want without explanation. And most of all, Amanda encourages vulnerability, so that all people can be their unique and original stigma-free selves.
Description:
Amanda Goff was once Australia’s highest paid escort. Talking about the sex industry can be societally jarring. Those who opt for a career “selling sex” are often frowned upon, but why? In this episode, Amanda Goff shares the sides of the industry we rarely understand, how the sex industry is more intimate than we've been led to believe, and why as a society, we need to start talking about sex and shame.
Topics:
In this episode, Ally and Amanda discuss:
- How society views the sex work industry
- The art of sexual disconnection
- Is being an escort just about sex?
- The relationship between sex and shame
- Debunking the myths around selling sex for money
Follow:
You can find Amanda on Instagram @amandagoffofficial, via her website www.amandagoff.com.au and her podcast Xposed with Samantha X
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Amanda Goff is a bestselling author, journalist, and former escort under the alter ego name of Samantha X. Amanda started her career as a tabloid journalist in her hometown of London before moving to Sydney in 2000, where she worked in TV and magazines. Then at 37, after two kids and separation, Amanda completely changed her life.
After walking out of her nine-to-five job. Amanda became Australia’s most high-profile escort Samantha X. Since then, Amanda has written two best-selling books and was the focus of constant media attention, gaining fans and critics worldwide. Deciding to leave the escort business, Amanda now lives life unapologetically, despite facing global judgement and stigma. Now, Amanda continues to inspire women to lead the life they want without explanation. And most of all, Amanda encourages vulnerability, so that all people can be their unique and original stigma-free selves.
Description:
Amanda Goff was once Australia’s highest paid escort. Talking about the sex industry can be societally jarring. Those who opt for a career “selling sex” are often frowned upon, but why? In this episode, Amanda Goff shares the sides of the industry we rarely understand, how the sex industry is more intimate than we've been led to believe, and why as a society, we need to start talking about sex and shame.
Topics:
In this episode, Ally and Amanda discuss:
- How society views the sex work industry
- The art of sexual disconnection
- Is being an escort just about sex?
- The relationship between sex and shame
- Debunking the myths around selling sex for money
Follow:
You can find Amanda on Instagram @amandagoffofficial, via her website www.amandagoff.com.au and her podcast Xposed with Samantha X
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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People Pleaser Recovery: The Stigma of Saying No with Natalie Lue
Natalie Lue is an author, artist, and creator of one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world, Baggage Reclaim, and The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast. The England-born, Ireland-raised author helps people understand how their emotional baggage is interfering with their ability to live their lives happily and authentically. Natalie’s authored five books, including Mr Unavailable and the Fallback Girl and The Joy of Saying No (Jan 2023, HarperCollins). Her advice has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, and the BBC, among many others. Natalie lives in Caterham, Surrey, on the edge of south London with her husband, two daughters, and cockapoo.
Description:
Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Guy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Do you save the word no for emergency situations only? Are you always putting others’ needs above yours even at the expense of your mental and physical health? Are you unable to deliver a guilt-free no even when you desperately want to establish a healthy boundary? If so, you are not alone. The Joy of Saying No is your ticket out of toxic patterns and into healthy relationships and experiences that foster more love, care, trust and respect.
Topics:
In this episode, Ally and Natalie discuss:
- The 5 styles of people pleasing
- What is the social stigma around saying “no”?
- The dangers of becoming a “yes” culture?
- What motivates our decisions to constantly please
- Is “FOMO Fever” harming our “no’s”?
If you love this episode, please share and leave a review — let’s smoke out stigma and make truth-telling the next biggest trend!
Follow:
You can find Natalie on Instagram @natlue or via her website www.natalielue.com, and long running blog and podcast how, Baggage Reclaim
If you love this episode, please share and leave a review — let’s smoke out stigma and make truth-telling the next biggest trend!
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OK, It’s Time to Talk Difference: The Stigma of Intersex with Sean Saifa Wall
Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and has since lived and worked in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Atlanta, Georgia. Currently, he is a Marie Skolowdska-Curie fellow at the University of Huddersfield in England examining the erasure of intersex people from social policy in Ireland and England. As an activist, Saifa is committed to racial equity and a radical vision of bodily autonomy for people with intersex variations. He is co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project whose #EndIntersexSurgery campaign pressured Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to become the first children’s hospital in the United States to denounce and further investigate genital surgeries on Intersex infants. Above all else, Saifa is determined to end harmful and invasive genital surgery on intersex children and advocate for affirming healthcare for all people with intersex variations.
About this episode:
Sean Saifa Wall was diagnosed with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome, subjected to a gonadectomy at age 13, and necessitating lifelong hormone replacement therapy. As a teenager, Sean Saifa Wall was told that he was to live as a “girl”, however, conformity wasn’t something Saifa or his mother would allow. Now a thirty-year old man, Saifa explains the devastating surgeries performed on babies and young people to medically assign and “correct” people born with an intersex variation. With global recognition as an Intersex activist, Saifa explains why different bodies are beautiful bodies, how we can safely hold the conversations that matter, and why stigma needs to end with “assuming gender”.
In this episode, Ally and Saifa discuss:
- Understanding intersex physically, emotionally, mentally and societally?
- Breaking down body parts and the differences we know
- Is it OK to ask about a person’s genitalia?
- What is social etiquette when your body doesn’t have a drop-down menu?
- Tackling the taboo about bodies: fixed, broken, or perfect?
- Talking pronouns and how they’ve evolved
You can find Saifa on Instagram @saifaemerges @intersexjusticproject
If you love this episode, please share and leave a review — let’s smoke out stigma and make truth-telling the next biggest trend!
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