“The second you make someone laugh, it’s so much easier to get money out of 'em!” / Live from McNally Jackson NYC in January 2018!We discussed colorism at strip clubs, #MeToo issues, Spread Magazine, how being a stripper prepares you to write single panel comics, and a certain portrait of Aya's mom wearing a leopard print fur bikini holding a snake! / From I Was A Teenage Dominatrix to The Happy Hooker , classic sex work books have been limited to pretty one-dimensional points of view. In ...
Jun 18, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast “If the thing you love to do is only seen in 'shame' porn, you may think that’s the only slot you fit into as a desirable person. That’s not cool, and that’s what I’m trying to fix.” / From ASMR to GIFS, comics to fan fiction, public screenings to photo sets of dudes who can suck their own dicks, this YAPIT Live from April 2018 at the Pleasure Chest in NYC explores all personal and political facets of modern pornography. / Special guests Math Magazine EiC Mackenzie Peck and Pleasure Chest s...
Jun 04, 2018•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast “When I’m editing my porn I love admiring the way my nails look wrapped around a dick.” / CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes frank, informed discussions of consensual non-consent fantasies, as well as two Jewish women unpacking what it means for trolls to invoke the Holocaust. / Artist, indie porn producer, and sex work organizer Arabelle Raphael is femme for a living. So what does it mean to be a queer lover of opulent extravagant finger adornments? Arabelle and I chatted about our mutual l...
May 21, 2018•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I didn’t how to kiss gently. It was always about grabbing the person, putting my hand around their throat, biting. Leaving as many bruises on a body as possible. I confused a lot of people!” How is being an actress like being a dominatrix? Tina spoke with the creators of the groundbreaking new webseries "Mercy Mistress" about BDSM as healing, sex work as a consent ritual, and the perks of crop tops in winter. Mercy Mistress is an episodic dramatic series that follows Mistress Yin, a queer first...
May 07, 2018•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The ultimate fantasy is love.” Live from Camp Ravish, a sexy outdoor event in rural Texas, comes this atmospheric YAPIT Live! My special guest was world renowned rope bondage expert JD from 2 Knotty Boys. We discussed bondage, exhibitionism and voyeurism, spanking, age play, and more! 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 18, 2018•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Chivalry is the kind of ritualized flirting that goes on and on and on." In this episode, iconic writer S. Bear Bergman makes a case for chivalry; a modern, bespoke, very queer kind. He compares it to high protocol BDSM, cruising, and good ole fashioned courtesy. Very much the kind of convo you’ll only find on YAPIT. S. Bear Bergman is a writer, storyteller, educator, activist and the founder and publisher of children’s book publisher Flamingo Rampant, which makes feminist, culturally-div...
Apr 09, 2018•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Back in the 90s, I touched so many pussies and so many penises while doing erotic awakening massage that eventually I noticed there was no fucking difference: People were responding as erotic beings!” Part 2 of YaPi Tantra begins with Barbara Carrellas guiding us through the first steps to full body blissgasms. She also explains how the 10th anniversary edition of Urban Tantra came to include trans and gender nonconforming erotic awakening massage, and tells a bit of the origins of her tantra p...
Mar 19, 2018•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The AIDS crisis was taking away our sexual freedom as well as our lives. I wanted to have sex in a way that was safe from HIV, but ecstatic as gay men in the all night disco palaces of your dreams.” Barbara Carrellas is a queer kinky sex educator whose work has been very influential on Tina’s personal and professional life. To celebrate the tenth anniversary edition of Barbara’s seminal book Urban Tantra, the two of them sat down to discuss breath and energy orgasms, their relative tolerate for...
Mar 09, 2018•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The part of sex that most people love is the letting go, the freedom of connection with themselves or another person, the expansion, literally the OMG of it. Most people feel that want more of that and they want it to go on longer. Tantra offers practical ways to get you there." Recorded in front of a particularly enthusiastic audience at the Pleasure Chest in NYC, December 2017, this is the Tantra Edition of YAPIT Live! Featuring Barbara Carrellas, author of the kinky queer sex guide Urban Tan...
Feb 26, 2018•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Part Two of my conversation with Melissa Dessereau, MFT, in which we discuss attachment theory, and why queers are especially well equipped for non-monogamy. 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 19, 2018•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast This February, let's rethink our idea about romance by focusing on self love and solo sex! Tania has been with the Pleasure Chest for 2 years managing the Lincoln Avenue location in Chicago. She loves poetry, cooking and crystals. She finds a lot of joy in helping folks find a way to love themselves and others. 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 09, 2018•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast “You can’t really control whether you’re having an emotional connection with someone." By popular demand, here is an entire episode on the topic of open relationships, with a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who also happens to be an out queer polyamorous badass. Is having a customized relationship really worth all that processing? Listen and decide for yourself! Melissa Dessereau is a perceptive and nuanced therapist with a refreshingly frank style. For over 20 years, she has been working...
Feb 07, 2018•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast “In summary, life is pain; submit to me!” Mistress Blunt’s professional practice incorporates devotional principles of yoga with classic BDSM training. In this highly intellectual and erotic episode, she talks with Tina about altered states of consciousness, the relationship between chronic pain and S&M, and her specialized femme induction sessions. Danielle Blunt is a New York City based professional and lifestyle domina. She is a classically trained dominatrix, a sex worker’s ri...
Jan 22, 2018•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast A freezer filled with vacuum-sealed dirty panties. Breeder gloves for fisting. How to turn a vibrator into a bondage toy. Putting feet in assholes. A mutual love of ruined orgasms. The dominatrix edition of YAPIT Live at the Pleasure Chest in NYC has all this and a whole lot more kinky shit. “I want you to feel like you can’t get away at all. I want a hundred locks. I want to chain you down. I want you to feel like a complete prisoner.” This all-BDSM sex worker panel features NYC-bas...
Jan 15, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cleaning things up so you can get extra dirty. That’s the philosophy of Ask A Clean Person columnist and podcaster Jolie Kerr. Tina had the misconception that a cleaning expert probably wouldn’t share some of her disgusting interests, but Jolie defies expectations with her dirty mouth and filthy mind. In this episode, Jolie gives tips for using ketchup to clean leather strap-on harnesses, and using meat tenderizer to clean up period blood; and Tina tells a very personal story about an anal catas...
Jan 09, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast NYC-based Sex educator Carly is sick and tired of shame-y New Years' Resolutions. So we decided to brainstorm body positive ways to start 2018! From watching yourself masturbate to treating your sex toys extra nice, this is the only resolution guide you'll need this January! 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...
Jan 01, 2018•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast “What I love the most about being a porn performer is the vulnerability." This summer while Tina was visiting Austin Texas, she had an extremely personal and poignant conversation on with her old friend Mickey Mod. Mickey opened up about his career as a porn star, how stigma changes when you fall in love, and why the double standard of the “interracial” porn genre is an economic justice issue. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yapit...
Dec 19, 2017•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this special holiday guide from the Pleasure Chest, LA sex specialist Tracy walks us through all sort of stocking stuffer ideas from vibrators that double as jewelry, to porn, books, bondage toys, massage oils, gift cards, gift packages, and special deals to give the gift of stress relief to all your loved ones! Tracy is the Supervisor and Sex specialist at the Pleasure Chest in West Hollywood. She has been working for the Pleasure Chest since 2015 and in the adult toy industry for 6 years. H...
Dec 15, 2017•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Theres a tendency for men in tech to trust machines more than they trust women.” For the first time ever, Tina tackles a speculative YAPIT: or as guest Rose Eveleth calls it: why WOULD people BE into that ? Rose is the host and producer of Flash Forward, a spectacular podcast about the future. She’s also written extensively about sex robots technology with feminist humor and scientific skepticism. In this episode, Tina and Rose muse on everything from the consent politics of machines, to h...
Dec 13, 2017•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lesbian vampires. Face-hugging aliens. Blue collar werewolves. Shitty boyfriend robots. Abject zombies. Mermaids with strap-ons. The devil’s ice-cold dick. These are just some of the hilarious ways we sexualized monsters on this Halloween edition of YAPIT Live at the Pleasure Chest in NYC. My gore whore guests Katie Skelly (author of the graphic novel My Pretty Vampire ), Kristen Sollee (author of Witches Sluts Feminists ) and Carly (sex educator at the Pleasure Chest and author of the Dildo Or ...
Dec 06, 2017•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast “I’m imagining a sperm-soaked pulsating os right now.” Tina hopped on the phone with Stephanie Berman, creator of the Pop! ejaculating dildo. They discussed the reproductive origin story of this innovative toy, as well as kinky and gender affirming uses. @TheSemenette 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....
Nov 29, 2017•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast For the latest in my special series from the Pleasure Chest, Mary joins me to chat about Domination and Submission. Mary has worked in various aspects of the adult industry for nearly two decades. Through pleasure education, pro domination, and outfitting premier adult stores, her focus has always been on validating fantasies and relieving humans of sexual oppressions. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her partner, two kids, and often teaches kink oriented workshops at the Pleasure...
Nov 22, 2017•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Pub Day Jaclyn Friedman! Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All is now available everywhere! To celebrate, enjoy this recording from our live crossover podcast at Sex Expo NYC. We discussed Ted Cruz’ “staffing issue,” the reproductive rights actions of the Satanic Temple, psychic dicks, masturbation, our favorite vibrators, adult baby diaper lovers, tentacle porn, and how to start the resistance from your bedroom Recorded live in front of an audi...
Nov 14, 2017•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast G spots, 69’ing, custom porn, crystal massage oil: It’s YAPT Live at the Pleasure Chest with Misha Battle and Carly! Recorded on Sept 7th in NYC, this panel also covered NURU, pegging, magic wands, how sword swallowing helps you to improve your oral sex skills, and why Carly wants to be on News12 The Bronx for beating up an intruder with a certain sex toy. Recording engineered by Justine Mclellan and sponsored by Acast. @TinaHornsAss @ MyishaBattle @ Makeupandsin @ PleasureChestNY ...
Nov 11, 2017•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sex coach Ev’yan Whitney joins Tina on the phone from Portland Oregon to discuss the sex appeal of crystals, polyamory, demisexuality, masturbation, self care, and more.Ev’Yan Whitney is a writer, sensualist, and sexuality doula—a person who helps facilitate, educate, and hold space for women who are seeking to come into the full expression of their erotic selves. When she’s not writing or taking sexy selfies on Instagram, she’s helping women step out of sexual shame and into their erotic power ...
Oct 23, 2017•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Oct 5th NYC! Sexy Monsters at the Pleasure Chest! Kristen Korvette (Witches Sluts Feminists) & Katie Skelly (My Pretty Vampire) join me to discuss why witches, vampires, werewolves, and other monsters are so erotic. TinaHorn.net/LIVE! See you there! “Magic is shifting perception and consciousness. That happens during sex whether you like it or not,.” In this episode, Kristen Korvette aka Kristen Sollee shares tips for masturbation magic, activist incantation, and the historical connection be...
Oct 05, 2017•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Halloween is the one time of year you can wear fetish gear or lingerie in public, and the Pleasure Chest is the perfect place to shop for those dark and sexy accessories. But what about when you find yourself wanting to be a dominatrix, or a human puppy, or a stocking lover all year round? The Pleasure Chest has you, ahem, covered for all of your erotic wearable needs. Join Koko of the PC store in WeHo LA for an exploration of collars, schoolgirl skirts, packers, cat eye masks, and more outfits ...
Oct 02, 2017•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Picking up cash with your pussy. Pulling bills out of your butt. Torturing men until they reveal where they've hidden your money around the room. Tina and Lorelei have witnessed some wild intersections of finances and sex in their time. In Part Two, they continue their discussion of financial domination and cash fetishism. 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....
Sep 20, 2017•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Money makes the world go round, or so it's been sung. So what about when cash makes your pussy wet and your dick hard? Pornographer, writer, and activist Lorelei Lee understands both sides of the transactional fetish known as financial domination. In this episode, Tina and Lorelei explore the circumstances in which sex work is and is not "findoming," plus all the different ways to fuck on top of a pile of money. “You exist only to prop me up. This is the entire reason you go to work. You’re just...
Sep 14, 2017•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast NYC! Come out TONIGHT to see sex coach Myisha Battle and Tina Horn in conversation at the East side Pleasure Chest (TinaHorn.net/Live). If you're not in New York, then enjoy this Interrobang interview recorded the last time Myisha was in town...Sex coach Myisha Battle — who also hosts her own sex podcast Down For Whatever — has plenty to say on the subjects of threesomes, dirty talk, and squirting. But she really blew Tina's mind when she started describing dinosaur role plays and her taste for ...
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