Stripping, Strap-Ons, Porn & Digital Intimacy

Andre Shakti joins Jess and Brandon to share their journey and story as a stripper, sex worker, educator and activist. They discuss:

What Andre loves about stripping and what drew her into the strip club in the first place

How to cultivate intimacy (in person and online)

Strap-on strategies for beginners

SANCTUARY, the virtual strip club

How strippers connect with their clients on a more personal level

How COVID and digital dates have changed connection for the better

Creating community for sex workers

Andre’s experience in the porn industry and prop 60

STI testing in the porn industry and what we can learn from

The Bella Thorne OnlyFan debacle

Follow Andre on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Also check out Andre's weekly advice column on non-monogamy, "I Am Poly(amorous) & So Can You!".

Andre's image was shot by Tristan Crane. 

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Stripping, Strap-Ons, Porn & Digital Intimacy

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You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jess, podcast sacks and relationship advice you can use tonight. Welcome to the sex with Dr. Jeff. PODCASTS I'm your co host. Brandon we're here with my lovely other half. Dr Jess I'm failing lovely. You're looking lovely. Just throwing the compliments at you this morning. Yeah. Well, IT'S A. It's a weird time of the year because for most entrepreneurs and students and parents this feels like a new. Year. Yeah I usually struggle leading up to the day after Labor Day because it reminds me of going back to school which was a long time ago. and all of these sorts of feels right now. Yeah and for folks who go back to school at a different time of year in in. Toronto we've always gone back to school the day after Labor Day it's always been the way it is, and of course, this year is different because some kids aren't going back to school. Some are doing a blended hybrid type learning some have been postponed until next week because I guess the government's in the school boards couldn't agree on what would be safe for staff and students, and I would say about fifty fifty percent I'd say fifty fifty in terms of our friends. in terms of sending their kids back to school or keeping their kids at home. Yet and I mean, maybe people are gonNA. Think I'm a lot younger than I am now that I said that I'm nostalgic about going to school no no, one thinks here. Yeah. Thanks. Before we dive in today, I want to say a big. Thank you to Provo Care, which is a natural way to restore the healthy bacteria and normal Ph level required for a balanced vaginal ecosystem, and so it perfectly has been clinically proven to treat and prevent recurring yeast and bacterial infections, and you can check them out online provo care dot. Ca and you can I believe you can find them on Amazon as well. Now today, we're talking a whole lot of things. You're talking sex work online stripping, which to me feels very intimidating but I'm interested to learn more the porn and Industry Sti testing maybe some strap on sex.