Social Sex Revolution | Cindy Gallop
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Social Sex Revolution | Cindy Gallop
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Location: New York
Date: Friday, November 15th 2019
Company: Make Love Not Porn
Role: Founder & CEO
Cindy Gallop is an ad agency executive who is spearheading a social sex revolution through Make Love Not Porn, a website that is 'pro-sex, pro-porn, pro-knowing the difference'.
Like YouTube, Make Love Not Porn's aim is to be a social website where users upload their content in a revenue-sharing model. However, the platform has encountered significant hurdles that have inhibited its scalability.
While all startups encounter difficulties, Make Love Not Porn has had more than their fair share. Despite being an entirely legal industry, running a business that falls under 'the adult industry', leads to complications such as acquiring banking services. The company also struggles to find investors willing to step outside of their comfort zone and help scale a thriving business within the multi-billion-dollar adult industry.
In this interview, I talk to Cindy Gallop, the founder of Make Love Not Porn, a website dedicated to spearheading the social sex revolution. We discuss what drove Cindy to develop the platform and the challenges of getting investment and banking.
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More from Cindy:
The Independent: Pamela Anderson is wrong: we shouldn’t stop watching porn. We just need to change our attitude towards it
The Independent: It's not that porn degrades women, it's that business degrades porn
Mentioned in the show:
Bitdefender: One in 10 visitors of porn sites is under 10 years old
Wikipedia: Me Too movement
Wikipedia: Roll Red Roll
Reuters: Women's sex toy maker sues New York City subway, calls ad ban sexist
Business Insider: A £5 million company with a female CEO hosts underground, masked sex parties in cities around the world — and it just raised nearly £600,000 to launch an app
TechCrunch: Sex the final frontier: Cindy Gallop raises $2m from mysterious investor for social sex tech
Wikipedia: Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act
Business Insider: Congress' awful anti-sex-trafficking law has only put sex workers in danger and wasted taxpayer money
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