Sex Work, Shame, and Why People Are So Bad at Critical Thinking

This episode goes everywhere — but somehow still lands exactly where it needs to. I sat down with Elle Stanger, AASECT certified sex educator and longtime sex worker, to talk about the massive cultural confusion surrounding sex work, sex trafficking, criminalization, and morality. What unfolds is a chaotic, honest, ADHD-style conversation about: why society constantly conflates sex work with trafficking how criminalization increases harm the role of religion, shame, and social narratives why people struggle to hold two truths at once ADHD brains, stimulation, and unconventional career paths how autonomy and variety can make certain environments more accessible for neurodivergent people We also talk about masking, strip club economics, freelance life, trauma narratives, media portrayals, and why nuance is so hard for people to tolerate. No script, no clean outline....Just a real conversation about sex, power, stigma, and ADHD brains trying to make sense of the world. To find more on Elle: Website The Talk Sex Podcast IG