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Sex testing in international sporting events. What exactly is it? Where did it come from? The International Olympic Committee claims it was created out of a desire for “fair play.” The grim reality is that the testing is deeply rooted in sexist and imperialist attitudes. Dr. Ian Ritchie of Brock University helps the F Word expose the dark history of the testing.  Followed by a discussion between F Word host Ellie and Ashley McGhee, elite-level soccer player, feminist and critical thinker.

The dark history of sex testing in international sport podcast.

“For more than 40 years, the push to legalise or decriminalise everything from adult shops to strip clubs, escort agencies, pornography and the mail-order bride industry has been presented as a defence of liberty and free speech. But have we become enslaved by a new, largely unregulated multi-billion-dollar global market that is born in poverty and deals in misery? Countless numbers of women and children are traded and enslaved every year for the sex trade, while the internet has pervasively changed the way pornography is delivered and sexuality is imagined in the 21st century.”

Guests

Sheila Jeffreys
Feminist scholar and political activist Associate professor of political science at the University of Melbourne

Robbie Swan
Founder of the Eros Association Public Officer of The Australian Sex Party

via radfem hub

(Source: abc.net.au)