Pleasure Chest is a Virgo just like Tina Horn! To celebrate the 46th anniversary of this legendary sex toy retailer, Tina interviewed National Head of Business Operations Sarah Tomchesson about why people are into sex shops! Sarah explains why the biggest hurdle is walking through the door, why it's important to get a tactile feel for your sex toys, and why her grandmother got mad at her for working in this industry (but not for the reasons you might expect!).Sarah Tomchesson is Head of Business...
Sep 01, 2017•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I’m really interested in stories where the sex worker doesn’t die and end up in a garbage bag.” Antonia Crane was one of the women working at the Lusty Lady when they made their historical unionization. Now she has cowritten a script called The Lusty based on her experience. Tina caught up with her during a trip to LA to talk about Westward and their favorite sex work writers. Antonia Crane is a performer, 2-time Moth Story Slam Winner and writing instructor in Los Angeles. She has written for ...
Aug 23, 2017•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tired of storing your vibrator in a sticky drawer? Entrepreneur Lidia Bonilla certainly was! That’s why in 2013 she left a career in banking to found the House of Plume, creating beautiful storage solutions for all of your sexual accessories. Lidia sat down with Tina to discuss the Women of Sex Tech group, why Facebook won’t allow ads for sexual wellness products, and how the sex toy industry is even whiter than banking. LIDIA BONILLA: Covered by Fast Company, Tech Crunch, and Huffington Post, t...
Aug 18, 2017•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In Part 2 of Why Are People Into Female Dominance?!, Midori explains the appeal of compassionate sadism and details the unusual ways that graduates from her ForteFemme women’s dominance intensive use their training.Dan Savage calls Midori “The Super Nova of Kink”! She is an artistic visionary who has touched lives across the globe with her expertise in sexuality, personal fulfillment, and kinky adventures. Using her “head-heart-hands” methodology she facilitates tackling challenging topics and c...
Aug 15, 2017•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I like a long flirtation stroking the crevices of the mind and the back alleys of the imagination.” Midori certainly knows from femme seduction. This sex ed legend joins Tina for the 50th episode to talk about her women's dominance intensive ForteFemme and topping from a feminine space. Tina tells the full origin story of Midori’s inspiration for her power femme name. A truly evocative storyteller, Midori basically had Tina flustered and blushing the entire conversation. Stay tuned for Part two...
Aug 07, 2017•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast August is Anal Month at the Pleasure Chest! Tina was stoked to sit down with Brandon B, manager of the flagship West Village Pleasure Chest store (yup, the one from the rabbit vibe episode of Sex and the City) to discuss all things butt-related. This episode includes a butt-load (had to!) of toy recommendations from Brandon, including plugs, vibrators, beads, lube, even electro-stim! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Hosted ...
Aug 01, 2017•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast “In the whore economy, you’re constantly aware if you’re common or you’re rare.” If you enjoyed Tina's talk with Jenny Zhang in the Why Are People Into Fluids?! episode a few months back, then you'll love this Interrobang all about exclusion, meaningful cores, and Jenny's short story book Sour Heart (which comes out in August!) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 24, 2017•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast "The freaks were at the Lusty. They wanted to be seen. They were shoving zucchinis up their asses and tying themselves into pretzels They were wearing santa hats and coming in as a gang of clowns and all jerking off together. Does it come from shame?” When Tina was in LA, she dropped by writer Antonia Crane's place to dig into some questions about erotic shame. Why are people so attached to their own erotic shame? Can sex help you overcome the power that shame holds over you? Do we NEED shame fo...
Jul 18, 2017•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you think Sex Toy, chances are you’re thinking of a vibrator. But with so many different sizes and styles and gizmos, it can be overwhelming to find the vibrator that’s right for you… or to know how to expand your collection. Well, now is the perfect time to get your vibe on, because for the entire month of July at every Pleasure Chest store in NYC, LA, and Chicago as well as on the website pleasurechest dot com, everything that vibrates is buy one get one half off! Victor Tobar, the Nation...
Jul 14, 2017•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I'm attracted to dark misunderstood women. There's no moral valence to darkness.” Slutist editrix Kristen Sollee is the author of Witches Sluts Feminists, the new book everyone needs (creative directed by Tina Horn). Whether you’re curious about the history of persecution against women or the modern political activism of the Satanic Temple, or just wondering why everyone has crystals now, Kristen is your new favorite guide to the female occult. How does all of this relate to Pizzagate, Marcia C...
Jul 01, 2017•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast "I like to rub their dicks together in my mouth a little extra." In Part Two of our Gang Bang episode, kinky porn power couple Maitresse Madeline Marlowe and Will Havoc further discuss the technical, romantic, artistic, and queer potential of creating gang bang porn. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 15, 2017•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast “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 DiMartin...
Jun 08, 2017•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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 he...
Jun 02, 2017•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast “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, spande...
May 22, 2017•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast “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 depressin...
May 18, 2017•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 persona...
May 15, 2017•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 la...
May 02, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 wri...
Apr 24, 2017•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 17, 2017•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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 dra...
Apr 03, 2017•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Huff...
Mar 28, 2017•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Mar 15, 2017•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 02, 2017•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 portrai...
Mar 01, 2017•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast In which Ellen Stagg tells the art school tale of somewhat unintentionally exposing her asshole... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 15, 2017•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jan 23, 2017•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tattoo artist Tamara Santibañez reveals her body mod fetish fantasy in Part Two of Why Are People Into Tattoos?! with Tina Horn Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 17, 2017•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Support thi...
Jan 06, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 al...
Dec 15, 2016•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 l...
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