In this weeks episode Maria is joined by Dr Val Webber. They discuss the new regulations in the adult industry brought forward by payment processors such as Mastercard. They evaluate whether or not these new regulations are making the industry safer, or if they are causing more harm.

Dr. Val Webber [they/them] is a community health and sexuality researcher with a focus on health & safety in porn production and the need for policy development to be led by porn workers. Dr. Webber is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sexual Health and Gender (SHaG) Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Board Chair of PASS, a non-profit dedicated to the health and safety of adult industry workers; and an advisor to Ethical Capital Partners, the equity firm that recently acquired MindGeek. Val worked in the adult industry for 15+ years as a cam and fetish performer, voice actor, film crew member, and studio manager

You can find out more about Dr Webber's work here: @publicpubics and www.valeriewebber.com 

In this weeks episode Maria is joined by Freyja's head of marketing; Sofiia. They discuss what their biggest misconceptions were about the porn industry prior to working in it, and what it is actually like running an adult business.