Why Are People Into That?!

“Sex that takes up a lot of time doesn’t contribute to capitalist production. Anyone who comes into the Pleasure Chest is already saying; I’m taking back time for myself." In this special Pride episode, Ryan DiMartino talks with Tina about queering sex. From fabulous toys like golden strap-on dildos, to queer porn and literature, to gender affirming gear like gaffs and packers, the Pleasure Chest is the perfect place to find everything you need to queer your sex life all year long! Ryan DiMartino coordinates education at the Pleasure Chest NY. Inspired by sharing the stage with community leader Miss Major at age 17, their work is in pursuit of justice at the intersections of sexuality and gender with a focus on sex workers rights, body autonomy, and education. When they're not working with humans, they can usually be found beneath a pile of dogs.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"I want the feeling of being forced but still be in control. You gave that to me, and it was the best day of my life." CW: This episode contains audio footage from a porno set and is even more explicit than usual. In February 2017, Tina traveled to San Francisco to shack up in the Armory and observe the final week of Kink porn being filmed within that cavernous landmark. The day after the final Hard Core Gang Bang shoot, she snuggled up in her room with director Maitresse Madeline Marlowe and her partner Will Havoc to discuss their queer DS sex work love story, and... what else? Gang Bangs! Part Two is cumming on June 15th. Maitresse Madeline Marlowe has been a porn director, performer and professional dominatrix for over 13 years. Her primary focus has been BDSM and fetish. She's a lifestyle top with a knack for prostate milking, orchestrating gangbangs on and off camera and findomme. She currently directs Hardcoregangbang.com, Tsseduction.com and Divinebitches.com. Will Havoc is a Bay Area native...

“Intimacy gets my rocks off.” My friends Joe, Fran, and Dennis (along w Tommy who couldn’t make this taping) host my fave new podcast Food 4 Thot, which is about queer literary sluts. Sound like anyone you know? In this rambling, rosé-fueled episode, the boys answer a litany of why are people into that question: poppers, nipples, virgins, piss, rim jobs, the politics of race play, and much more! Then we play a swipe left swipe right game from F4T, revealing our opinions on Susan Sarandon, spandex, and karaoke.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“I deserve to dance in the fields of Dionysus!” In the first edition of a new bonus segment sponsored by the Pleasure Chest, I speak with Pleasure Chest educators about the subjects the store is celebrating every month. Since it’s Masturbation May, I spoke on the phone with Antoinette Elizabeth, the manager of the Pleasure Chest in the Lakeview area of Chicago. We discussed why people are into: vibrators, dildos, butt plugs, and erotica, and how masturbation can help you to process the depressing and anxiety-provoking news!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hair pulling, face slapping, tit torture, parasympathetic nervous responses, Lola’s kidnapping fantasies, trauma processing, and the surprising shapes that bruises can take. Part Two is an episode that takes a licking and keeps on tickin... Dirty Lola is a storyteller, sex educator, sex toy peddler, and the creator and host of the live sex Q&A / go-go show and podcast Sex Ed A Go-Go. During the last six years, she has shared her distinctive brand of kickass body and sex-positivity and her personal journey into the kink and polyamorous lifestyles with the masses on and off stage.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Biting. Flogging. Tickling. What is the relationship between erotic pain and sensuality? What’s to love about enduring pain to please someone else? What happens when a masochist stubs her toe? What makes someone a classic brat? Sex Ed A Go Go producer and kink educator Dirty Lola sat down with Tina to discuss all the pain that don’t hurt. Dirty Lola is a storyteller, sex educator, sex toy peddler, and the creator and host of the live sex Q&A / go-go show and podcast Sex Ed A Go-Go. During the last six years, she has shared her distinctive brand of kickass body and sex-positivity and her personal journey into the kink and polyamorous lifestyles with the masses on and off stage.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Should you pie a Nazi in the face? What's the best JELL-O for wrestling? What are the class implications of bringing food into your sex life? These are the kinds of questions Tina and Lorelei have been asking each other over the years in dungeons, porn castles, and cocktail bars. They figured the least they could do for their fans was to record it for once! Lorelei Lee has been an adult film performer, a bachelor party dancer, a professional dominatrix, a waitress, an advice columnist, and a writing teacher. She has been nominated for 11 AVN awards. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, WIRED, Denver Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Buzzfeed, $pread Magazine, and elsewhere. She cowrote the independent film About Cherry, in distribution through IFC films. She is a member of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee and was the Free Speech Coalition’s 2015 Woman of the Year.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jenny Zhang’s poetry is disgusting; and, if you know me, you know that nothing makes me wetter than obscenity. Jenny Zhang is the author of Dear Jenny, We Are All Find (Octopus Books), Hags (Guillotine), The Selected Jenny Zhang (Emily Books), and the forthcoming Sour Heart (Lenny). She was born in Shanghai and raised in Queens.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"I feel exposed by how wet I can be." Jenny Zhang's poetry is delightfully obscene, so it's no surprise she describes herself as "a very goopy person." In this episode, Tina and Jenny (the brilliant author of chapbooks, essays, and an upcoming book of short stories called Sour Heart) explore all the fluids the human body can produce, from spit to sweat to piss to cum. Along the way, they investigate the phenomenon of dirty panty sniffing, gushers candy, and the erotic potential of words like drained. Warning: this is one of the most visceral and frankly disgusting episodes of YAPIT! Jenny Zhang is the author of Dear Jenny, We Are All Find (Octopus Books), Hags (Guillotine), The Selected Jenny Zhang (Emily Books), and the forthcoming Sour Heart (Lenny). She was born in Shanghai and raised in Queens.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Gurza is a writer and podcaster who specializes in queerness and disability. In this episode of Interrobang, he reveals what pisses him off about dating, gives advice on how to talk (and how not to talk) to cute disabled people, and explains how queer cripple can be a term of empowerment Andrew Gurza is a Disability Awareness Consultant and Cripple Content Creator working to make the lived experience of queerness and disability accessible to all. His written work has been featured in Huffington Post, The Advocate, Everyday Feminism, Mashable, and Out.com He has presented all across North America on what it means to be a Queer Cripple. He is also the host of the DisabilityWithDrew and DisabilityAfterDark Podcasts. Andrew resides in Toronto, Canada. You can find out more about his work at www.andrewgurza.com  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Part Two, Tina dares to ask the AORTA queer experimental filmmakers: Why Are People Into Porn?! Does anyone actually jerk off to high-concept porn? Can porn be rehearsed? What if you have an experimental dance background and a radical queer political agenda? AORTA Films wants to explore these questions and more with their milk-guzzling queer erotic videos. Mere days after the American presidental election opened a hellmouth, Tina got together with Max Capacity, Ginny Wolf, and Parts Authority to drink whiskey and get to the bottom of these issues and many more. Part Two coming soon. AORTA films makes experimental queer/feminist porn - lusty, opulent, ethical, fuckery. Led by creator/director/performer Mahx Capacity, and performer/producers Parts Authority and Ginny Woolf, AORTA films seeks to create porn that disrupts boundaries and glitches desire. Working out of DIY and experimental performance contexts, they are interested in creating content that centers performers across a wide range of bodies... &

Queer porn star Chelsea Poe explains how her sexuality is like an everything bagel, how making trans BDSM porn is like being in a blasphemous metal band, and what really turns her on  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The shot of me in my underwear on top of a guitar amp? You know the one on the YAPIT logo? Yeah, Ellen Stagg took that. She also took the ones of me in blue protector light smoking a cigar, and the ones of me lounging on a leather couch in a blazer. She's also taken classic pictures of porn stars, burlesque dancers, pro-dommes, and hundreds of other professionally naked babes. In this episode, Ellen and I compared notes as photographer and model about the stories people project onto nude portraits, the distinction between objectification and exploitation, and the infamous creepy Model Mayhem GWCS (Guys With Cameras).  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In which Ellen Stagg tells the art school tale of somewhat unintentionally exposing her asshole...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Does anyone actually jerk off to high-concept porn? Can porn be rehearsed? What if you have an experimental dance background and a radical queer political agenda? AORTA Films wants to explore these questions and more with their milk-guzzling queer erotic videos. Mere days after the American presidental election opened a hellmouth, Tina got together with Max Capacity, Ginny Wolf, and Parts Authority to drink whiskey and get to the bottom of these issues and many more. Part Two coming soon. AORTA films makes experimental queer/feminist porn - lusty, opulent, ethical, fuckery. Led by creator/director/performer Mahx Capacity, and performer/producers Parts Authority and Ginny Woolf, AORTA films seeks to create porn that disrupts boundaries and glitches desire. Working out of DIY and experimental performance contexts, they are interested in creating content that centers performers across a wide range of bodies, genders, races, and identities. They work collaboratively, prioritizing safe and enthusiastically... &#

Tattoo artist Tamara Santibañez reveals her body mod fetish fantasy in Part Two of Why Are People Into Tattoos?! with Tina Horn  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The intimidatingly tough babe covered in symbols. The buzz of a vibrating machine. The endorphin rush of welcome, purposeful pain. These are just some of the ways that tattoo culture intersects with underground sexualities. Nobody knows that intersection better than Tamara Santibañez, a Brooklyn-based tattoo artist and the indie publisher of Discipline Press. Tune in to Part One as Tina and Tamara discuss the paradoxes of body art that is at once exhibitionist and a big fat FUCK YOU.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

PART TWO: Ever since Jacq the Stripper invited me to an all-sex-worker drinking game screening of Showgirls, I knew I had to have her on the podcast to explore the appeal of strip clubs: the lap dances, the cash hustle, and of course the neon spandex. Jacq just Kickstarted a coffee table book called Striptastic: part sociological study based on a survey of 300 nude and semi-clad dancers from around the world, and part full-colored illustrated comics extravaganza. Listen now to learn about the alluring power of naked entrepreneurs, and how even you can be a feminist strip club patron!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

THIS EPISODE DOESN'T SUCK! Ever since Jacq the Stripper invited me to an all-sex-worker drinking game screening of Showgirls, I knew I had to have her on the podcast to explore the appeal of strip clubs: the lap dances, the cash hustle, and of course the neon spandex. Jacq just Kickstarted a coffee table book called Striptastic: part sociological study based on a survey of 300 nude and semi-clad dancers from around the world, and part full-colored illustrated comics extravaganza. Listen now to learn about the alluring power of naked entrepreneurs, and how even you can be a feminist strip club patron!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Part Two: Struggle as much as you want: this episode has got you right where it wants you! Bondage is often used as short hand for kink, but that doesn’t make it any less profound. Troy Orlean’s professional bondage practice takes people far beyond the world of fuzzy pink handcuffs into a realm of meditation, transcendence, intensity, and even freedom. Tina visited Troy in her decadent Manhattan studio to talk about hemp rope, leather cuffs, latex bodybags, iron cages, and much more.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.