Laila Mickelwait
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 503. One Woman’s War on P*rnhub | Laila Mickelwait · 2 Dec 2024
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It's so much better where I'm at today because, you know, after that moment, I began to read more. I began to, I mean, there was one book that was really influential in my life called Inspiration by Dr. Wayne Dyer.
It really opened my eyes. It It helped me kind of develop spiritually. I began to understand where true happiness was going to come from. Yeah.
That it was in service. It stopped looking inward with your selfish ambitions and all of those things that you want to do.
I think it's when you're kind of articulating what I haven't articulated about that moment in my life and that
kind of season of time but yeah i realized that when did you get married kind of oriented uh when i was let's see uh 27 i believe i was 27 and how many children do you have i have two i have a son and a daughter a four-year-old and a seven-year-old right that makes you smile yes that's good yeah they are just the best thing i've ever done in my life i mean um
He had a huge influence on my life.
No, I had no idea.
I was so blessed. I mean, he was just, and he passed suddenly in 2014. But, you know, it was him who, you know, it was during this season of time when I was searching and I was realizing that where I was going to find real happiness in life and purpose was to start looking outward and seeking to where I can invest myself, right? And it was at this time when my dad showed me a documentary.
He called me into the living room and showed me a documentary that he was watching about child sex trafficking in Calcutta, India. And I was so horrified by what I saw. I was so impacted by what I saw that I began to research and I began to investigate this particular crime. It wasn't that many people were talking about it at the time.
It's a really good question. Why did that particularly arrest my attention? I think it was a combination of kind of the innocence. It was about child sex trafficking and how I felt like it was almost the...
...thing that you could do.
That's the worst possible crime. I think it was a combination of understanding the innocence and then the the devastation of that innocence through this particular means of something that I didn't know existed, right? Was this modern day slavery, right? We thought this was gone and it was at a time, most people are familiar with this now, right?
And human trafficking, most people know this, but at that time it was not very common to speak about. And so it was shocking, but it was the combination of the innocence. And then it was this, you know, I, It was this combination of horror at what was going on, and I felt drawn to investigate it, to learn. I began reading, you know, a book by Kevin Bell.
I mean, I kind of came into it. I was an acrobat when I was, you know, from the time I was eight years old. And I was an accomplished acrobat. And I had actually was accepted to Cirque du Soleil in Montreal. My dad wouldn't let me join the circus. Surprise, surprise. But I had gotten involved with a local acrobatic group. And part of the group was this friend that I made that was a pole dancer.
So she was an amazing acrobat. She was amazing at the ribbon. And she invited me to jump on the trampoline in Jimmy Kimmel's Man Show. So I... went for a few hundred dollars and I started to jump on the trampoline in a bikini for a few hundred dollars on Jimmy Kimmel's band show and that's kind of where I kind of just started to meet different people and ended up
Well, I mean, for an acrobat at the time, Cirque du Soleil was kind of like the Olympics. Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, they actually didn't have acrobatics in the Olympics at the time. So, like, the best thing you could do as an acrobat was to try out for and get accepted to Cirque du Soleil. Yeah, right.
It is. It's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, definitely. So, anyway, that was the trajectory into Hollywood. Right, right. Yeah, and so that's exactly how it happened.
Good questions. I don't think the law needs to be altered. I think it's sufficient with regard to child exploitation. We have very clear laws prohibiting that. We need to enforce that law. We even have a very powerful, underutilized sex trafficking statutes in the United States and Canada that need to be enforced. In the case of Pornhub and MindGeek, you know,
in Canada, in the United States, it's illegal to knowingly benefit from a sex trafficking venture. This is a sex trafficking venture. They need to be criminally held accountable.
Yes. And as far as new laws to address this, I mean, we have issues with non-consensual image-based abuse. So, you know, revenge porn laws, you know, those could be strengthened, I think. You know, we now have the emergence of AI now and user, you know, sorry, you know… pornography that is AI-generated.
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