Ben and Robin welcome their friend Grizz (he/him) to the pod to finally get into the topic of sex work! Grizz aka GrizzAud makes adult audio content as well as audio content focused on SH harm reduction. He talks about growing up having to advocate for himself in a less-than-ideal (but not anti-trans) family situation, performing musical theatre while your voice is actively dropping, getting into voice acting, following your dreams and finding self-actualization in an often cynical world, and much more. Robin gives a big update on her customer/ally “Jaques”. Ben tries out an (unauthorized) ad read for Manscaped. Robin rants about the Myth of Sisyphus (full quote below). But first, a big ol’ clearance sale of trans joy!
Note: Though this episode doesn’t get super graphic there is a lot of sex talk and is intended for 18+ audiences. More detailed content warnings below.
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Content warnings: Suicide (15:11); Sex and sex work (most of the episode beginning at 33:55); Self harm (41:59; 1:06:50).
And finally, the full quote from The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus:
“If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning. When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy arises in man’s heart: this is the rock’s victory, this is the rock itself. The boundless grief is too heavy to bear…But crushing truths perish from being acknowledged. I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
