Sex, Lies & Lies About Sex
Women always face conflicting cultural narratives in which our sex plays a central role, and much of the time the rhetoric in the foreground is there to cover up a very different reality in the background.
In this episode Elle jumps into three hotbed areas - prostitution, surrogacy and the transgender movement - with Swedish journalist and author Kajsa Ekis Ekman, who has made a career out of tearing down the stories we're being sold, digging deep into complicated issues, and revealing greater truths about why we are being sold those false stories to begin with.
Journalist, Author & Lecturer
Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Swedish author and journalist who writes on topics including capitalism, geopolitics, Latin America and Greece, surrogacy, adoption, prostitution and economic crises for a variety of Swedish and international publications. Kajsa is the author of several books, all translated into multiple languages - Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self, Stolen Spring: The Euro-Crisis Seen From Athens, On he Meaning of Sex: Thoughts on the New Definition of Woman.
Kajsa lectures internationally on prostitution, surrogacy, capitalism and women's rights and is the Chief Editor of Arbetarbloggen, an online forum for Swedish workers.