Why Are People Into That?!

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SNEAK PEAK: Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA

Please enjoy this exciting preview of an audio project I made with the Hacking//Hustling collective! It's called: "Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements

Jul 13
49 min

Nea Ching Live Pt2

“Most forced stuff is good, really.” — Nea Ching "Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink" THE BOOK IS OUT NOW wherever books are sold in hardcover,

Jun 11 2024
37 min

Nea Ching Live at Junior High (2021 Summer flashback!)

"Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink" THE BOOK IS OUT TODAY June 4th, 2024. Happy birthday baby! The episode you’re listening to now was recorded

Jun 4 2024
50 min

YAPIT Book Preview!

Welcome back to the first new feed drop in three years. I appreciate that you’re still subscribed, and I hope this was a nice treat in your podcast updates today. People

May 24 2024
1 h 11 min

WE TOO: Yin Q on Kink Out and Forgiveness

Yin Q, writer of the piece "We All Deserve To Heal" from We Too, discusses Spike Lee, Body of Workers, Kink Out Spaces at MOMA PS1, disassociation, complicity, power play

Mar 15 2021
1 h 23 min

WE TOO: Selena the Stripper

“They have no stakes. We have all of the stakes.” In the latest episode of my special series on WE TOO: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, I interviewed Selena the Strippe

Feb 22 2021
45 min

WE TOO: Natalie West

For the first episode of a special series celebrating the release of We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, I chatted with the book's editor Natalie West. (I associate

Feb 9 2021
1 h 23 min

YAPIT Update

Hey YAPIT fans! I'm focusing my energy on SfSx Volume 2, the hustle, and work/life balance in these turbulent times. Listen for a few words on my hiatus, and what to expe

Dec 14 2020
3 min

Annie Rose Malamet: Vampires

“No amount of assimilation or pride has shaken this sense of myself as an inverted dark predatory lesbian.” // Certified lesbian vampire Annie Rose Malamet joins me to e

Oct 21 2020
1 h 31 min

SX Noir on Black Sex Worker Liberation + more

"How can brands do more for social justice movements? Give people pleasure! Give people a reason to have a wet a$s p#ssy! Uplifting difficult conversations about Black Li

Sep 14 2020
1 h 27 min

Juno Mac: Interrobang?!

“Kink is an arena where I find tidiness.” // In Part 2 of my talk with Juno Mac, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes, we discuss: great books about sex work, rational tho

Aug 31 2020
40 min

Juno Mac: Revolting Prostitutes Pt 1

“Is it ok for 'Juno Mac' to be an anxious hooker and an advocate for sex worker rights? Am I allowed to be a messy, complicated person?” // The co-author of the indispen

Aug 10 2020
51 min

SfSx: Jen Hickman Interrobang?!

“The push and pull between clarity and imagination is something I think about a lot in visual storytelling.” // I called up SfSx series artist Jen Hickman to celebrate t

Jul 20 2020
1 h 10 min

Shine Louise Houston: Voyeurism

“The funny thing about Crash Pad is: you know that I know that you know that I know that there’s cameras in there." // In Part 2 of my interview with Shine, we focus in

Jul 6 2020
50 min

Shine Louise Houston: BLM + 15 yrs of Crash Pad Series

On May 11th, I recorded an episode remotely with Shine, about 15 years of Crash Pad Series, and a second part about voyeurism. On June 24th, I called her back to get her

Jun 25 2020
53 min

Whorearchy lecture 10.26.17 Catland Books Stigma Unbound

What is the Whorearchy? How can understanding it help us to combat whorephobia? This portmanteau meaning Whore-Hierarchy is a term originating from and used within the se

May 31 2020
24 min

Live! Eroticizing COVID-19 w Empress Wu

“There’s a part of me that’s going to enact a sadism on you from the inside.” // It’s YAPIT: COVID-19 Lightning Round Edition, recorded live on Instagram May 2nd 2020.

May 17 2020
1 h 14 min

JB Brager:Fascism pt2

"That’s the sex appeal of fascism: the desire to be violated. To be cut through like butter and spread... Fascism is sexy because it’s dangerous, confident, and... leathe

Apr 26 2020
1 h 12 min

JB Brager:Fascism pt1

“What does our desire endorse?” // Content Warning: This episode features two Jewish leftist queers in Brooklyn talking about the history, aesthetics, and complicated e

Apr 13 2020
51 min

Fancy Feast: Burlesque pt2

“I really like people to cry at my titty show!” // In part 2, Fancy and I get to the bottom of that age old debate: is burlesque stripping? Fancy recounts the plastic ba

Mar 23 2020
40 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

Every episode of this show has taught me something new, be it directly related to the listed topic or an adjacent conversation. Well-researched, enthusiastic, and sure to put a smile on your face. Cannot recommend highly enough.

ButchPuppy · Jun 2022

I love this podcast. Tina horns queer sex educational interviews are spot on. The discourse is deep, the questions are vast, and the kinky conversations are complex. It is so refreshing to have such an intelligent, considerate interviewer with a queer understanding doing these kinky interviews. I for one, am in need of this kind of in depth content. Please give us new episodes Tina!! We miss you! ❤️✨

moore mad(s!) scientists · Apr 2022

I have really been enjoying this podcast, ESPECIALLY during my COVID Quarantine. I found this podcast a few years ago and really didn’t seem to like it, but have returned and it’s finally the right time in my life. From listening to this pod cast I have had many personal breakthroughs around internalized shame, and many questions answered. I am especially grateful for the episodes on anal play that have so many good tips that I will definitely be trying! I also have found many of the resources she shares helpful and e, like links to other media in film and writing. This cast has also really helped me find language for sex/erotic life that I didn’t know I needed. So if you can relate to anything I’ve written I encourage you to give it a shot! (Side note : the episode on squirting with Ignacio Rivera literally taught me how to squirt and made me feel so much better about it as a trans masculine person! ) Also wonderful to hear from so many sex workers and queer people in the industry, writers, illustrators, providers and people of all trades. And so much humor. TRUE, the audio has much to be desired and sometimes the flow of the interviews seems stilted which can be very frustrating as a listener. I usually take a break from listening or choose a different episode when it starts to bother me, because there is so much good stuff in this cast! Thank you Tina!!!!!

Ricky-Rococo · Jan 2021

This podcast has been a key aspect of my sexual awakening. I am better informed, more creative, and more accepting because of it. I highly recommend even if you are not kinky because sex intersects with all aspects of life - race, gender, class, history, psychology, and more. Plus, Tina Horn is so charming.

Tina Horn Fan · Dec 2020

I listened to four episodes of this podcast, each time hoping it would get better. It didn’t. First of all: sound quality. In this day and age when you get very solid microphones for under $100 and there is excellent free editing software available, it is annoying to have to listen to what sounds like an iPhone was put on record and placed on a desk on the other side of the room. Mix in sirens and other background noise and it’s difficult to focus on what’s being talked about. My main issue is that the show is so improvised and without any notable structure that there are episodes that take 15-20 minutes to even get to the topic they’re supposed to be about if they even do at all. I listened to one episode that just sounded like two girlfriends talking about everything BUT the topic of the episode. The claim is that each episode brings in an “expert”. That does little good if that so-called expert is not asked any topical questions. I got little to nothing from this podcast and decided to unsubscribe.

RJAVHH · Jan 2021

I realllyyy lived this podcast but the sound quality on the episodes is soo sooo terrible it made it really difficult to continue listening which makes me really sad because the content is of high quality and the interviews are amazing but as a podcast the sound quality also has to be great and it’s unfortunately terrible.

amc619 · Jul 2018

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