Today's conversation is with Dr. Megan Tyler, a senior lecturer in the research education

and development team at Australia's La Trobe University. Megan's research delves into the complex intersections

between pornography, gender inequality, and violence against women. In this episode, we explore

the ways pornography has become normalized in mainstream media, the systemic exploitation embedded

within platforms like only fans, and how these trends erode our understanding of consent,

empowerment, and healthy relationships.

With that, let's jump into the conversation.

We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Well, Megan, thank you so much for joining me today.

I am delighted for our listeners to get an opportunity to hear about the work that you've done, the research that you can speak to.

Do you mind introducing yourself to our listeners?

I can. Dr. Megan Tyler, I am a feminist academic and I've been researching the sex industry in various

forms, including pornography for almost 20 years. I added it up just yesterday to figure that out.

And often looking at the intersections between the sex industry and violence against women.

I mostly look at that from the level of like cultural constructions and inequalities of power.

So not so much the level of individual experience because I have a background in political science.

So it's often kind of that high level power and structural analysis.

But I've also done work across sociology, public health and most recently marketing with some colleagues in business.

So I've kind of, I guess, applied that analysis in lots of different ways and have looked

at pornography and violence against women in particular from a number of different perspectives over

the last couple of decades. Yeah. Amazing. The research you can speak to is so fascinating and I'm really excited for our listeners to get to hear more about it.

Can you share what inspired your focus on the intersections of pornography and gender inequality and violence against women?

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