Peepshow Podcast

In Episode 4 we interview Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) and Reese Piper (@thenudereporter). We also talk about the new Patreon content guidelines.

We start by discussing Patron's new content guidelines, which many creators fear will lead to a crackdown on adult content. PJ reads an excerpt from the "Open Letter to Patreon" posted by Liara Roux. We recommend Samantha Cole's "Adult Content Creators: Patreon Is Doing 'the Exact Opposite of What We Asked For'" in Vice's "Motherboard."

We then interview Kashmir Hill, a San Francisco-based investigative reporter with Gizmodo Media Group, who writes about technology and privacy. She talks to us about her recent article on how Facebook's "People You May Know" feature outs sex workers.

We also discuss the many ways Facebook/Instagram algorithms may put marginalized people (sex workers, queer youth, domestic abuse survivors, etc.) at risk as well as possible ways of safeguarding your identity.

You can find the uploaded contacts feature mentioned in this segment at:

https://www.facebook.com/invite_history.php

Finally, we chat with Reese Piper, a stripper, autistic woman, and journalist, who reports on sex work challenges, migrant issues, and the secret lives of autistic women. We discuss her work as a stripper both in Australia and in Manhattan, and the challenges she has faced understanding the complex environment of strip clubs as an autistic woman.

We also talk about the FckShameProject (@FckShameProject), a platform she helped to create in order for sex workers to be able to talk about bad days or trauma that they experience in their work without condemning sex work as a whole.

We interview Classicist Sarah Alison Miller about leaky female bodies in Greco-Roman and Medieval literature, sexual assault in Greco-Roman myths, body fluids, mystics, and witches!

We also talk to queer photographer and content creator Isabel Dresler (@isabeldresler) about making smut. We discuss her photography career, how her experience as a sex worker informs her art, why she isn't afraid to take selfies, and what it means to do porn ethically.

We also discuss the Harvey Weinstein controversy and highlight Zoe Williams' article advocating for a bystander ethic.

Zoe Williams: Why Did No One Speak Out About Harvey Weinstein?

And we discuss Robert Asterman's article on sex positivism and what we can learn from porn search analytics.

Robert Asterman: Sex Positivism: Trying to Read the Truth From Porn Search Data Misconstrues Sexual Desire

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Hosted by Jessie Sage (@sapiotextual) & PJ Sage (@peejsage).

Thanks to Joe Kennedy for our music.

Produced by PJ Sage.

We interview cam model and clip producer Dahlia Dee (@xoDahliaDee) about sharing/selling sexy content on the Web, what should happen when people use the images without consent, and her experiences coming out to friends and family.

We also talk to to erotica writer Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry) about writing sex from the perspective of differently bodied people, using the word “pussy,” and more. Sunny introduces us to erotic works from Circlet Press (@circletpress), who is raising funds to publish their 25th anniversary anthology:

Kickstarter "Best Erotic Sci-Fi Fantasy" Anthology

A special guest, sex worker and performer Maggie McMuffin (@maggiemcmuff), join us for our news segment to talk about the piece she wrote for Tits and Sass on Hugh Hefner’s death: Hugh Hefner: Rapist and Revolutionary

We discuss the complicated feelings associated with Hugh Hefner the man and the legacy he left behind. 

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Hosted by Jessie Sage (@sapiotextual) & PJ Sage (@peejsage).

Thanks to Joe Kennedy for our music.

Produced by PJ Sage.

Our very first episode!

We discuss adjunct professors turning to sex work, feminist porn site Bellesa and piracy. 

Interviews with Kristina Marusic (@KristinaSaurusR) about bisexual identity and bi-erasure and MochaPuff (@xMochaPuffx) about blackface and racism on sex cam sites.

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Hosted by Jessie Sage (@sapiotextual) & PJ Sage (@peejsage).

Thanks to Joe Kennedy for our music.

Produced by PJ Sage.