The Oldest Profession Podcast

Infamous misandrist martyr and queer icon Aileen Wuornos killed seven men while working as a hitch hiking sex worker in Florida. To say that her life was defined by hardship would be an understatement. She started exchanging sex for resources at 11, was kicked out of her family house at 15. At 35, after killing a number of johns, one of whom a convicted rapist Wuornos shot in self-defence, she was...

In this new special segment, Kaytlin responds to the alarming but predictable trend of single women traveling alone being targeted by companies who are spending millions to train their staff to spot 'trafficking victims'. Surprise surprise: the training doesn't actually help trafficking victims, but rather targets old pros. Kaytlin also addresses the recent wave of arrests on seeking.com. 

This week we're doing something a little different- we compiled heartbreaking and heartwarming coming out stories from Coyote Fawn, Allie Oops, and many more.   

  To commemorate the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers on December 17th we pass the mic to Ceyenne Doroshow who interviews long time friend & activist JyAsia Kylee about her experience with violence & the police. For more information about vigils & events in your area visit  http://www.december17. org/

In this episode Kaytlin focuses on the life of unlikely national hero, Stormy Daniels. The uneventful sex she definitely had with Donald Trump might be the least interesting part of this incredible woman's story.        

In the second part of this two part series about prostitution in  colonial   Nigeria,  Kaytlin pulls back to discuss the shared goals and developing rivalry between the Colony  Welfare Office, which was run by British colonialists, and upper class Lagosian women working toward a broad feminist agenda.   Beginning in the 1920's, these women demanded that the  colonial  state work to eradicate prost...

Segilola Eleyinju Ege was an immensely popular Nigerian prostitute who wrote what is considered by many to be the first Yoruba novel,"The Life History of Me Segilola Endowed with Fascinating Eyes, the Sweetheart of a Thousand and One Men". Between 1929 & 1930, Segilola published tales from her exciting life as a monthly column in the Lagos Herald. This is part one of a two part series based on Sah...

Six years before writing and starring in Rocky, Sylvester Stallone was the lead in a soft core porn film originally titled 'Party at Kitty and Stud's', which was re-released and renamed 'The Italian Stallion' after Stallone became famous.   

Bettie Page, one of the most iconic pin-ups and bondage models of the twentieth century, had an on-and-off again relationship with evangelical christianity. While her involvement with the church led her to become 'reformed', she never repented her nude modeling days, believing that that since Adam and Eve were created naked in the Garden of Eden, then God probably didn't have too much of an issue...

This week begins a series on "reformed whores," people who publicly campaigned to prevent others from entering the sex trade. Kaytlin breaks down the context that brought together two powerhouse icons of the "porn wars."  Feminist intellectual Andrea Dworkin and Linda Lovelace who starred in the 1972 blockbuster success that thrust porn into the mainstream, Deep Throat. 

Kaytlin talks about losing the NY12 Democratic Primary and next steps in the fight for sex worker rights. She talks about substituting "the electorate" for her parents approval and chasing numbers to feel alive. She also talks about the "end" of #SurvivorsAgainstSESTA and asks her listeners to get in this fight if they aren't already. Shout out to Survived and Punished, SWOP Behind Bars, Support (...

Kaytlin and "whore of all trades" and activist Tai dive into the life of bisexual legend Julie D'Aubigny, who  fought, fucked & sang her way through 17th century France.  An expert fencer and opera signer, D'Aubigny seduced aristocratic men and women, did some grave robbing, and burned a nunnery.

Jacq the Stripper joins Kaytlin Bailey to talk about American icon, Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy was born into a multi generational family of scrappy independent women. After realizing she couldn't support the family as a vaudeville performer, Lee turned to the more lucrative craft of burlesque, which she transformed with her wit and wisdom. Like Jacq, Gypsy was a brilliant stand up comic & author in add...

June 2nd is International Whores Day, so fly your thong flag high and listen to Kaytlin Bailey & Ceyenne Doroshow dish on the french whores who helped inspire the sex worker rights movement. On June 2nd, 1975 over 100 sex workers occupied the Church of Saint-Nizier in Lyon, France. They hung a banner which read "Our children do not want their mother's in jail." They sparked an international conver...

Best known for attempting to shoot Andy Warhol, Valerie Solanas' SCUM manifesto became a rallying cry for a generation of feminist thinkers. Valerie was a vagrant working as a panhandler, prostitute and provocateur. From this position of presumed powerlessness Valerie sees through the thin veil of civility to call bullshit on patriarchal power. The ladies admire this old pro with nothing to lose a...

Your favorite mouthy broads Kaytlin Bailey (@kaytlinbailey) and Wendi Starling (@wendibird82) are safe, alive and BACK with a fresh new episode and, once again, are joined by the incomparably fabulous Ceyenne Doroshow (@doroshow) to unwrap the tumultuously tantalizing life of Dorian Corey. As documented in the film "Paris Is Burning", Corey was one of the queens of the NYC Ball Culture that went t...

French courtesan  Marguerite Marie Alibert, otherwise known as Maggie Meller, was the lover of Edward the VII. After her affair with the British prince, she married a rich, snotty and young Egyptian aristocrat, whom she killed in a fancy hotel room in London. The girls talk about homeopathic vadge stuff, how murder is not okay even if the victim is a man, and hipsters who snap instead of clapping....

The ladies are once again joined by the fiercely funny Ceyenne Doroshow ( @doroshow ) and these 3 mouthy sound off about Stormy Daniels' latest bad bitch moves, the slippery subject of fondling foreskin AND discuss whether or not Bailey Davis (recently fired Saints cheerleader) was laboring under conditions eerily similar to trafficking.  Then, Kaytlin ( @kaytlinbailey ) and Wendi ( @wendibird82 )...

It's a gabfest to the max this week when Kaytlin ( @kaytlinbailey ) and Wendi ( @wendibird82 ) are joined by founder of the SOAR Institute, Melissa Sontag Broudo ! They talk a little shop and retrace the bold steps that brought Melissa to a fateful meeting with life-long trans sex worker activist Sharmus Outlaw and exactly how Sharmus' legacy lives on through the tireless harm reduction and outrea...

History almost always repeats itself, and we are currently witnessing and living through another major attack on the livelihood of sex workers by way of the FOSTA/SESTA bill. Kaytlin ( @kaytlinbailey ) and Wendi ( @wendibird82 ) kick off the episode with updates on which companies have started cracking down in compliance with the impending law, then jump into the details of Timarchus, a male sex w...

The whores are back with the fantastically feisty Ceyenne Doroshow ( @doroshow ) in Part II of their snow day extravaganza. Kaytlin ( @kaytlinbailey ) and Wendi ( @wendibird82 ) respond to a listener email and remind us that racists can be sex workers too, then get down to business by singing the praises of trailblazing trans woman Miss Major.   After being misgendered and housed with male inmates...

This week, the ladies are trapped indoors due to a snowstorm with a fabulously special guest, fellow old pro and founder of GLITS (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society), Ms. Ceyenne Doroshow ! Ceyenne recounts her experiences with the legendary Flawless Sabrina. Born in 1939, Flawless (given name: Jack Doroshow) became the queen of drag and originator of the ultra glamorous Ballroom s...

Prepare to be inspired by the life and barrier shattering work of  Georgina Beyer. This bad bitch went from survival sex worker to radio host and ultimately took her place as the first trans politician in New Zealand (Mayor of Carterton and Wairarapa MP). PLUS, the ladies break down the difference between legalization and decriminalization, read a listener email AND this episode just might make yo...

This week, the ladies take a break from history lessons in an effort to highlight a present day movement to suppress and disable sex workers from willingly supporting themselves and their families by way of society's oldest profession. SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) is a bill that will, most likely, be passed by the time you hear this episode. Kaytlin and Wendi break down exactly why an...

Erotic literature tantalizes the senses in a uniquely specific way, even more so when the salacious stories are derived from real life. This week, the ladies recount the steamy and sordid tale of author Anais Nin and her many lovers. It turns into an especially raw episode as Wendi (@wendibird82) spills the specifics of a very recent unpleasant encounter with a former SD and Kaytlin (@kaytlinbaile...