Sexology

Welcome to episode 402 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to be speaking with a professional dominatrix and author - Tina Horn. In this conversation, we discuss her book, Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink, the evolution of Internet platforms for sex workers, and the politics surrounding sex work and bodily autonomy. Tina Horn is a writer, educatrix, and media-maker. Her book of fetish cultural criticism based on her long-running indie podcast Why Are People Into That?! will be out in June 2024 from Hachette. Tina is the creator/writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series Safe Sex (Image), and the cult detective thriller Deprog; she was also the host/cowriter of the phone sex podcast Operator (Wondery). Her reporting on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Hazlitt, Glamour, Jezebel and elsewhere; she is the author of two nonfiction books and has contributed to numerous anthologies including We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she also c