Luke Malone – a producer of Great Photo, Lovely Life and expert on sexual abuse prevention – dissects how our society currently deals with child sex abuse, common misconceptions, helpful and harmful language around the topic, and ideas to help advance prevention efforts.

This episode was recorded before the release of Great Photo, Lovely Life.

Luke Malone is an award-winning journalist who writes stories and produces documentaries and podcasts about sexual harm. He has worked for outlets including TIME, The Washington Post, This American Life, Slate, FX, Gimlet Media, and Showtime. He is co-writing a book about child sexual abuse prevention and the history of U.S. sex crime laws with Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau, director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.