Why Are People Into That?!

Why Are People Into That?!


Latest Episodes

Shine Louise Houston: BLM + 15 yrs of Crash Pad Series
June 25, 2020

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 perspective on the Movement for Black Lives. This is part one, including our talks...

Whorearchy lecture 10.26.17 Catland Books Stigma Unbound
May 31, 2020

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 sex worker rights movement describing social stratification within the indu...

Live! Eroticizing COVID-19 w Empress Wu
May 16, 2020

“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. // In which I really try my best to game-ify YAPIT even though I don’t have a game ...

JB Brager:Fascism pt2
April 26, 2020

"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... leather! It’s scary and comforting at the same time, because you don’t have to make...

JB Brager:Fascism pt1
April 13, 2020

“What does our desire endorse?” // Content Warning: This episode features two Jewish leftist queers in Brooklyn talking about the history, aesthetics, and complicated erotic allegories of fascism. Some graphic references to torture from fictional film...

Fancy Feast: Burlesque pt2
March 23, 2020

“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 bag routine that won her Miss Coney Island 2016, as well as some of her favorite ac...

Fancy Feast : Burlesque pt1
March 11, 2020

“I don’t experience my naked body as inherently erotic. It’s my body, and I like it. It has so much more to do for me with the glamour and the transgression. That’s the part where I’m comfortable and excited. Burlesque was the first time I ever saw an ...

Live! Fetish Aesthetics w Lanee Bird
February 24, 2020

“All subcultures use aesthetics to establish community." // Fetish artist and aesthete Lanee Bird joined me the day after her film Laboratory was screened as part of Kink Out: Spaces at MOMA PS1. We talked fetish as: obsession, reverence, precisio...

Empress Wu: Cannibalism pt2
February 10, 2020

"Riding someone while biting them is like consuming them from both ends.” / “The esophagus is the thinking man’s rectum.” / Worship, biting, vampirism, feeding frenzies, body farms, eating pubes, menstrual blood, ripping into each other, the act...

Empress Wu: Cannibalism pt1
January 27, 2020

“While my mouth is open, he gets lost among my teeth, sliding down my throat, not being able to escape my mouth.” // In truly one of the most deranged episodes in the history of this podcast, Empress Wu and I speculate about the thrall of cannibalism, ...