Why Are People Into That?!

It's all well and good to play a video game or go on a tour of the ocean floor with a virtual reality headset: but if you're jerking off, you need that shit to seem really, really real! Ela Darling is here to make that happen: she's the world's first VR cam girl. Ela and her pioneering company are working tirelessly to assure not only that VR cam models have presence and immersion for the viewer,...

This is Interrobang! Available exclusively to Acast+ subscribers! Sign up now to get access to this and other bonus content from Tina Horn and Why Are People Into That?! An interrobang is when a question mark and an exclamation point are next to each other. Really. That’s the actual name for that. On this episode of Interrobang, my guest is Merrit K. She’s the host of the Woodland Secrets podcast...

Privacy! Boners! Feelings! THIS is a very special episode of YAPIT, in which we investigate the subject of Tina’s new book: Sexting: The grown-ups Guide of Sex Tips to Getting Dirty Digitally. Tina wanted to invite someone with fresh, smart, refreshing ideas about naked selfie pride, choosing your own SMS adventure, and the ethics of digital privacy. After reading Alana Massey’s “feeling journalis...

Is blood just another sexual fluid? Or is it dangerous paint? Canadian photographer Maxwell Lander (whose unparalleled new book, Carnal Anomaly, is out now!) is prepared to open veins and find out. Max is infamous for breaking through all kinds of barriers: between art and vulgarity, sex and violence, and sometimes the literal skin between human insides and the outside world. Tina climbed into Max...

"Kink is about exploring the uncontrollable in a controlled way. It's about feeling unsafe in a situation that is actually safe. That's the art of it." Erotic humiliation can be about so many different abstract things, and Princess Kali is here to break it down! This retired dominatrix, producer of Kink Academy, and author of Enough to Make You Blush explains how diminishing someone's ego can be o...

In this special bonus episode of YAPIT, notorious genderqueer performance artist Johnny Blazes answers sexting advice submitted by Tina's Patreon patrons. Tina may have written the book on sexting, but Blazes knows a thing or two about a thing or too! Johnny Blazes is a performer, educator, and author who is notorious for their exuberant and glittery approach to the stage and classroom. johnnyblaz...

“Making porn informed how I wanted to have sex for the rest of my life. I just want to have sex with my friends who understand craft and narrative and know how to empathize through art.” Tina was so excited that cam model and writer Milcah Halili wanted to talk about the erotic appeal of narratives and storytelling. They went extra deep in a discussion of the stories we tell ourselves, our partner...

Happy New Queer! Welcome to Part Two of a very special crossover episode of Why Are People Into That?! with Siouxsie Q of the Whorecast and Sam Solo of the On Your Face podcast! Tina spent New Years Day at the Whorecastle in Oakland. To get pumped about 2016, these three sex workin, indie media makin pals sat down to do a Year in Sex review of 2015. In Part Two, they talk Ashley Madison hack, Magi...

Happy New Queer! Welcome to a very special crossover episode of Why Are People Into That?! with Siouxsie Q of the Whorecast and Sam Solo of the On Your Face podcast! Tina spent New Years Day at the Whorecastle in Oakland. To get pumped about 2016, these three sex workin, indie media makin pals sat down to do a Year in Sex review of 2015. In Part One, they talk Jessica Jones, The Force Awakens, and...

This month's episode is, if we may say so, the kind of conversation you'll only find on Why Are People Into That?!. Poet Arielle Greenberg tells Tina Horn all about her fetish for hedonism. Arielle gets off on encouraging a partner to have another drink or another doughnut, to fuck a hot stranger, or to be in any way decadent. From an exploration of the seven deadly sins to a brand new way of thin...

Cooper Beckett has a media empire devoted to swinging – a form of non-monogamy in which couples play with other couples – and has devoted extensive blogging, podcasting, and now a book to the subject. So what is it about swinging as a kind of sexual adventure that is such a turn-on? DISCUSSED: The difference between polyamory and swinging / A case for choosing swinging over cheating / Why the swin...

Tina was pretty over the moon to talk to legendary comedian/storyteller/perv Kevin Allison about cruising. What do anonymous semi-public BJs have to do with gay male cultural heritage, and – more importantly – where are the best spots in NYC to get/give one? On his podcast, RISK!, Kevin is not shy about his erotic exploits, and this episode pokes around in the tons and tons of tiny little closet s...

When Tina Horn thinks of bicycles, you know she thinks about sweaty, greasy sex. Luckily, she’s not the only bikesexual around. For this episode, Poppy Cox, the creative director of the Bike Smut film festival, came over to discuss the connection between bikes and civic politics, the history of women’s liberation, and what might be involved in taking a bike slut home from a bar. LISTEN: Poppy Cox...

Pop quiz: What did Tristan and Tina discover they both love while recording this episode? 1. Deep water penetration by enema 2. Using butt plugs to be lazy tops 3. The gender-bending potential of anal bottoming 4. Having a hotel room pajama party at a fancy women’s leather event 5. All of the above and more! LISTEN: Tristan Taormino is the author of 8 books, including The Ultimate Guide to Anal Se...

How is being an editor like being a voyeur? What advantages does erotic fiction have over visual porn? How can erotica be a tool for richer fantasies and hotter sex? Why do we associate written erotica with women and visual porn with men? All this and more comes up when Tina sits down with prolific erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. LISTEN: Rachel Kramer Bussel ( rachelkramerbussel.co...

Tina Horn and Girl Sex 101 Allison Moon both love to put their strap-ons in the butts of lucky gentlemen. What is it about this specific gender configuration (a cis-woman fucking a cis-man in the ass with a strap-on), this so-called “reversal of roles,” that has the incredible power to queer heterosexual intercourse? Some questions: What's in your pegging kit? / What does the third sphincter do? /...

You'll recall the meme featuring the great Iggy Pop wearing an evening gown alongside his quote: “I'm not ashamed to dress ‘like a woman' because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.” This month's episode is a discussion between two cisgender queer women who have both made a living for many years facilitating the fantasy of cisgender men to dress up in dresses, lingerie, heels, makeup,...

Can a size queen ever be satisfied? Maybe not, but why should she? This episode is a tribute to big cocks, giant hands, oversized vibrators, voluminous screams, zaftig bodies, and insatiable appetites. T.Pantherella has sold toys, instructed the sexually curious, and thrown her hip out during a burlesque act, so suffice it to say she knows all about things that take up space. LISTEN:   T. Pan...

Tina wrote an essay for Nikki Silver's upcoming book of photography,  Unshaven ,  which collects erotic images of hairy women from Silver's iconoclastic hardcore website,  Naughty Natural . In this episode, Tina snuggles up in Silver's four-poster bed to discuss everything they love about being hairy, and what other people love (and misunderstand) about unshaven women. Porn ideas brainstormed in t...

S-L-U-T: she may be a slut but she looks good to me ! That classic Todd Rundgren song may be stuck in your head after listening to Tina and Reid slosh around in a bathtub in Oakland California blowing bubbles and gabbing hard about sexual extroversion. Come for the orgy stories, stay for the cogent perspectives on love and dating from two of the world's sluttiest sex educators.   Discussed: T...

Sex drives technology, no doubt about it. In this week’s episode, journalist Melissa Gira Grant gives Tina a history lesson in cam girls: how they’ve gone from surveillance performance art to social media microcelebs to the future of sex work. From commercial hardcore Skype shows to nonconsensual revenge porn, this episode traces the evolution of naked digital representations. Discussed: Setting Y...

Why do we get off on the things that scare us? That's the question Tina posed to her old friend Mickey Mod, along with very special guest co-host Quinn Cassidy. As a long-time veteran in front of and behind the sex industry camera, Mickey has a lot to say about the reasons that fear sells porno. This dreamteam threesome ate a lot of nachos, sipped some fine liquor, and talked some serious talks ab...

Pain, discipline, rosy-red butts – there's a lot to love about spanking, and a lot of loaded questions to ask about it, too. One of the most prominent mainstream journalists to tackle those issues these days is Jillian Keenan, who has written extensively about her own spanking fetish. She reveals a bunch of emotionally honest and nerdily physiological explanations into why spanking is such a...

What’s your fantasy? Crack your knuckles and do your carpal tunnel exercises: it’s time to talk about porn! Journalist Anna Breslaw just might be changing women’s magazines from the inside, and in this episode she sits down with Tina to answer some tricky questions about nudie pics and blue movies. Why do people like watching other people have sex? Why do people keep trying to tell us there’s some...

International Ms Bootblack 2011 kd diamond is an accomplished artist: and she's also a card-carrying leather fetishist. In this episode, kd opens up her boot care kit and lets us peek inside. We learn how integral bootblacks are to the Leather Scene, and how taking care of leather clothes can represent service, worship, or simply hot kinky sex. Discussed: How To Always Smell The Glove; The Smokies...