Why Are People Into That?! show

Why Are People Into That?!

Summary: A long-running indie conversation show that centers queer, kinky, slutty, and pervy cultures to discuss sex toys, BDSM, non-monogamy, porn, intersectional feminism, and much more. Through conversations both intellectual and raunchy between host/producer Tina Horn and her expert guests, the podcast explores science, psychology, social dynamics, and history, as well as deeply personal stories and pleasure-centered education. Support this show at http://supporter.acast.com/yapit

Podcasts:

 Live! Cannabis w Sophie Saint Thomas & Carly | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:40:34

Decriminalized & destigmatized cannabis use is entering a new American era, and that means there's more ways than ever to incorporate this classic aphrodisiac into our love lives. For another live episode at the Pleasure Chest in NYC, Tina sat down with sex and weed journalist Sophie Saint Thomas and pleasure educator Carly to break down the science of the endocannabinoid system, weed lube, stoner porn, rose petal joints, the difference between THC and CBD, how to objectify someone by turning them into a human bong, ashtray, or edible, forced intox, adult baby diaper stoners, how cannabis can help us heal from sexual trauma, and the importance of cannabis-related social equity programs for currently or formerly incarcerated people. / Plus we field some questions about double-sided dildos, erotic hypnosis, and sounding! / Sophie Saint Thomas is a queer Brooklyn-based writer originally from the Virgin Islands. Brooklyn Magazine named her one of their 30 Under 30, and High Times selected her as one of their 100 Women in High Places. She is a regular contributor about sex and cannabis for Allure, Playboy, GQ, Vice, Glamour, High Times, Marie Claire and more. She is currently writing a book for Simon & Schuster called Finding Your Higher Self: Your Guide to Cannabis for Self Care which comes out this November. / Carly S. has been a sex educator since 2010 and runs the blog dildoordildont. If you ever meet her, she loves strong coffee and even stronger vibration. She's called the Queen of Wands, and it's easy to figure out why. Check the Pleasure Chest calendar to see her teach!  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Rocket: Puppies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:35

Whether it’s been a few years since you heard it or you’re getting slobbered on by it for the first time, please enjoy this rerun of Why Are People Into Puppy Play! with Rocket/Yandy. Fetch! Speak! Roll over! This episode is all about people who love to role play as dogs. Sometimes their puppy persona becomes a part of their sexual identity, a way to access innocence, playfulness, and carnal passion. DISCUSSED: Puppy-on-puppy Love / Scooby Snack Graham Crackers / Butt Plugs with Tails / Elbow Pads / Halloween Store Finds / Saran Wrap / Love until the Heat Death of the Universe / You Know if You’ve Been a Fucking Goddamn Good Ottoman or Not / Positive Reinforcement DS / Walkies / Rocket/Yandy is a gender-ambivalent, futureshocked nice Jewitch pupper who prefers “it” pronouns and is, at present, exploring the interplay between poetry, time travel, countermemory, and trans identity using a combination of sadomasochism, rhinestones, and strategically applied pyromania. Rocket works on the Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation, Mythical Events, and the Agdistine Order and teaches at places like the Queer Porn Film Festival, the New England Leather Alliance, and Columbia University.   Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Stoya: Books, pt2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:44:27

In Part Two, Stoya and I discuss: The Reunion by Laura Antoniou (and psychological erotica), Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski (and arousal non-concordance), The Guide to Getting It On (how Stoya masturbated to it and why Tina hates it), Mercedes Lachey's book that has a scene where people fuck on some rocks (that Stoya can't remember the name of), Sam Delaney (and a story you've probably heard Tina tell 20 times), House of Holes (two tickets please!), and which one of us has actually been railed in the stacks. / Stoya has been working with sexuality for over a decade, on camera and off. She has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, Playboy, and others. Her first book, Philosophy, Pussycats & Porn, was released through Not A Cult in 2018. She contributes to Slate's How To Do It every week, and runs a sexuality focused book club in Gowanus the third Sunday of the month. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Stoya: Books, pt1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:47:35

Porn legend, writer, and avowed sapiosexual Stoya joins me for a talk about musty-smelling paperbacks, big fat library shelves, and randomly also necrophilia?! We ask: Is it classist to only want to date someone who knows what "Wherefore" means in "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"?! Would John Waters want to top Stoya? Who is going to make a venn diagram of people who prominently display but have not read Infinite Jest and people who eat pussy? Will Stoya dog ear my page? Where can you see orgasms inspired by Supervert and Bataille? Can you ethically donate your corpse to perverts? Crack open our dust jackets and find out! / Stoya has been working with sexuality for over a decade, on camera and off. She has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, Playboy, and others. Her first book, Philosophy, Pussycats & Porn, was released through Not A Cult in 2018. She contributes to Slate's How To Do It every week, and runs a sexuality focused book club in Gowanus Brooklyn the third Sunday of the month. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Live! Ashley Paige & Corey More: Families | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:18:15

“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it!” / In this hilarious and boundary-pushing live episode, recorded in March 2019 at the 2nd Ave Pleasure Chest in NYC, I'm joined by two other queer sex workers, Ashley Paige and Corey More, to discuss the persistently taboo yet insurgently popular concept of incest fantasies! We deepen our ongoing discussion of leather families, while also exploring power dynamics between siblings, whether twincest is homosexual and/or masturbatory, and ponder that age-old ethical chestnut: if you discover the person you're having really hot sex with is your cousin, how long do you wait to tell them? We also get literal about queer parenthood, since Corey was 7 months pregnant when this was recorded and has some stunning insight into trans and nonbinary birthing bodies. / Ashley Paige is a ProDomme, AlphaFemale, and Kinky Travel Companion based in NYC. She’s been engaging professionally in pleasure and perversion for more than a decade and specializes in the art of catharsis created by her ethereal understanding of visceral connection through Holistic Kink and Companionship. The femme daddy of your leather dreams and filthy fantasies…! / Corey More is a chameleon with tits. A carnal detective and longtime provider of erotic odds and ends, they are a porno newbie and a stripper grandpa. Wielding a cancer sun and virgo rising, they specialize in curating the perfect experience to make you want your mommy in the worst way. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Andrea Glik: Consensual Non-consent | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:18

“We are made to feel powerless non-consensually all the time. This is an opportunity to take the power back.” / Content warning: This is conversation between two queer women about erotic fantasies that involve themes of force and violation.  Rape scenes are the most fundamental yet thorniest of sexual fantasies. Whether it's force and resistance, psychological control, or emotional humiliation, why are we drawn erotically to things we don't actually want to do or have happen to us? In this episode, we unpack the paradox of consensual non-consent. Andrea brings her training as a therapist to help us understand the difference between abuse and kink play. She also gives some tips for healthy communication within a BDSM power dynamic. / Andrea Glik, LMSW is a psychotherapist, somatic healer, sex educator, and witch. Andrea specializes in treating trauma and PTSD for queer & trans folks, using body based and feminist therapy practices to help clients come home to themselves. Andrea practices at The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Collective in NYC. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Katie Skelly: Comics, pt2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:33

“Every time she’s stimulated it’s utter chaos!” / In Part2 of my conversation with Katie Skelly we discuss whether erotic comics benefit from stories, Italian class dynamics in Milo Manara’s Click, grotesquery in Lisa Hanawalt, Go Nagai, Gina Wynbrandt's Someone Please Have Sex with Me, Dave Cooper's Ripple, the un-dying allure of the comic book store backroom, and Skelly's newest project including possibly incestuous killer maids! / Katie Skelly is an award-winning cartoonist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her comics work includes Nurse Nurse, Operation Margarine, and Twisted Romance #1. Her most recent comics, My Pretty Vampire and The Agency, are available from Fantagraphics. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Katie Skelly: Comics, Pt1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:47:26

“I get away with a lot!” / Katie Skelly and I discuss puffy bulging vulvas, the “dark whimsy” of her psychedelic erotic comic books, why people think her phantasmagoria is a personal ad, how she got away with showing a certain superhero eating ass on a spaceship, and how she was influenced by looking at Vogue in her parents’ newsstand. / Katie Skelly is an award-winning cartoonist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her comics work includes Nurse Nurse, Operation Margarine, and Twisted Romance #1. Her most recent comics, My Pretty Vampire and The Agency, are available from Fantagraphics. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Interrobang: Andrea Glik LMSW on BDSM Healing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:52:43

"Trauma and shame show up in the body in the same ways.” / In this Interrobang, Andrea Glik, LMSW discusses her therapy practice, how BDSM can help us to heal from trauma, what depression looks like in your nervous system, and which Cate Blanchett character she would want a sex robot to impersonate for her. / Andrea Glik, LMSW is a psychotherapist, somatic healer, sex educator, and witch. Andrea specializes in treating trauma and PTSD for queer & trans folks, using body based and feminist therapy practices to help clients come home to themselves. Andrea practices at The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Collective in NYC. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Interrobang: Ashley Paige on HoTeling while Black | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:16:02

"I was called a ho long before I became an actual sex worker.” / The brilliant and deviant Ashley Paige joins me again to discuss the Marriott hotel’s classist sex worker profiling, the racial difference between a slut and a ho, and Ashley’s personal history in the sex industry. / Content warning: at about 40 minutes this episode gets extra real: w/r/t abuse and violence. / Ashley Paige is a ProDomme, AlphaFemale, and Kinky Travel Companion based in NYC. She’s been engaging professionally in pleasure and perversion for more than a decade and specializes in the art of catharsis created by her ethereal understanding of visceral connection through Holistic Kink and Companionship. The femme daddy of your leather dreams and filthy fantasies…! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Ashley Paige: Daddies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:46

"He called me Daddy and I've never felt my lips quiver so hard in my life." / I figured since we started the year off talking about Leather Mommies, it would only be fair to give some space to masculine nurturing dominants. And who better to embody that queer Daddy vibe than professional dominatrix Ashley Paige? / We discussed what it means for women to claim the title Daddy, whether this is or is not about incest, and how sex work helped Ashley get in touch with her inner vulnerable androgynous top. / Ashley Paige is a ProDomme, AlphaFemale, and Kinky Travel Companion based in NYC. She’s been engaging professionally in pleasure and perversion for more than a decade and specializes in the art of catharsis created by her ethereal understanding of visceral connection through Holistic Kink and Companionship. The femme daddy of your leather dreams and filthy fantasies…! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Live! Arielle Egozi: Menses | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:17:58

A storytelling heavy flow celebrating some under-appreciated things many people find mystifying and/or disgusting: menstruation, the full internal structure of the clitoris, body scents, and hair! / Recorded November 2018 at Pleasure Chest on 2nd Ave in NYC. Live engineered by Ben Weber, co-sponsored by Acast. Music by TreZure Empire! / Arielle Egozi is a writer and social influencer who uses her platform to destigmatize and decolonize sex, bodies, and society. She believes our personal liberation is entwined with everyone else’s, and that feminism isn’t a thing unless it’s intersectional. She’s written for and been featured in publications you’ve probably heard about, and just launched a video campaign with a brand helping teens navigate their first periods. She is now Director of Content at RAXO, a WOC-owned and run creative agency. She’s also a witch. / Bahar Baharloo is a sex educator and the Assistant Manager of the Pleasure Chest in the Upper East Side. She is a Queer, Femme-sy, Iranian-American, Power-Slut! Her favorite topics include normalizing sexuality/kink, busting myths and demystifying taboos, and the dogs she just can’t own right now. Her favorite toy in the whole store (besides the nJoy Pure Wand) is the B-Vibe Rimming plug. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Margaret Cho on Mercy Mistress | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:55

“Kinky people have the upper hand!" Queer icon Margaret Cho is now executive producing Yin Q’s webseries Mercy Mistress, so I got the honor of interviewing her when I was in Los Angeles. We chatted about the importance of seeing yourself represented in pop culture, how hard it is to be a good dominatrix, and what BDSM can teach us about consent. / An accomplished performer in all formats, Margaret Cho could be called the “Queen of all Media” having conquered the worlds of film, television, books, music and theatre. She has five Grammy Award nominations (two for music albums, Cho Dependent and American Myth) and one Emmy nod for her groundbreaking work on 30 Rock. Never one to shy away from a difficult or 'taboo' topic, her socially aware brand of stand-up comedy has made her both a thought leader as well as a teacher to those with open minds and open hearts. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine named one of the 50 Best Stand-Up Comics calling her “the sort of funny, sex-positive feminist and LGBT activist younger comics continue to look up to.” Equally as important as her creative side is the causes she is passionate about. Margaret is widely recognized for her charitable work with gay rights and anti-bullying campaigns. In every segment of her life, Margaret is honest, forthright, passionate, uproarious and always entertaining. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 @TheGayChingy: Mommies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:51:41

"Why be ashamed of my fetishes when I can fetishize my shame?" / My conversation w Chingy continues with this deeply personal dive into kinky Mommy lust. Leather Mommies are the new Leather Daddies in this funny and taboo episode. / Chingy is a writer, actress, humorist and all-around funny pervert based out of Los Angeles and Oakland, CA. Her work focuses on kink lifestyles, queer media, and lesbian thirst and has been featured at Autostraddle, VICE, and BuzzFeed. Chingy is currently working on an informational comic about BDSM love languages, regular columns on kinky lesbian sex, and a workplace comedy about queer sex workers that was featured at Lambda LitFest 2018’s main stage. She is also a much better bottom than you. She can be found slinging rampantly homosexual memes and ensnaring femme tops on Instagram and Twitter as @TheGayChingy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Chingy Fucks the Whole Damn House | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:55

Chingy is one of my favorite queer meme makers, so when I was out in LA I got together with her to discuss comic book fetish art, what makes her the bottom supreme, and why she wants to devote herself utterly to an artificially intelligent house. Tune in next week for our deep dive into Why Are People Into Mommies?!. // Chingy is a writer, actress, humorist and all-around funny pervert based out of Los Angeles and Oakland, CA. Her work focuses on kink lifestyles, queer media, and lesbian thirst and has been featured at Autostraddle, VICE, and BuzzFeed. Chingy is currently working on an informational comic about BDSM love languages, regular columns on kinky lesbian sex, and a workplace comedy about queer sex workers that was featured at Lambda LitFest 2018’s main stage. She is also a much better bottom than you. She can be found slinging rampantly homosexual memes and ensnaring femme tops on Instagram and Twitter as @TheGayChingy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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