In Episode 96, Jessie Sage talks to Marla Cruz, a proud Texan, stripper, and socialist who cut her teeth in the reproductive justice movement. They talk about reproductive and abortion care, SB315, the TX law that pushed 18-20-year-old strippers out of the club, and why strippers should support full decrim.  This episode is sponsored by Assembly Four.    

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Episode 96: Marla Cruz on Laws that Impact Strippers

We talk to Tiffini Truth (aka Femme Fatale), Social Media Manager, & Brand Ambassador for Arousr.com.  We talk about her modeling history, the expertise and training she brings to the company, the benefits of offering non-visual erotic performances and interactions in a porn-saturated market, and more. This episode is sponsored by Assembly Four and Arousr.

Episode 95: Visual and non-visual arousal with Arousr

This week Jessie Sage talks to Adrie Rose about being an out sex worker in academia, banking discrimination, sex work politics, and living in Pittsburgh. Episode sponsored by Trouble Films, Assembly Four, and After Adult Podcast. 

Episode 94: Financial Discrimination with Adrie Rose

In Episode 93, we talk to Trip Richards, trans porn performer, about transgender inclusion in pornography, destigmatizing sex work, sexual shame, emotional labor, and more. Episode sponsored by Trouble Films, Assembly Four, and After Adult Podcast. 

Episode 93: Trans Inclusion and Destigmatizing Sex Work with Trip Richards

In Episode 92, Jessie Sage talks to Dr. David Ley about the myth of sex addiction, the moral panic around porn, the need for comprehensive sex education, and much more. Episode sponsored by Assembly Four, After Adult Podcast, and Trouble Films.

Episode 92: Sex Addiction with Dr. David Ley

In this episode we talk to Zahra Stardust and Gabriella Garcia about the work they are doing to Decode Stigma.  We talk about the tech, intersectionality, and sex work values and solidarity, imagining an internet designed by sex workers.  This episode is sponsored by Trouble Films, Assembly Four, and After Adult Podcast. 

Episode 91: Decoding Stigma with Zahra Stardust and Gabriella Garcia

Recording from a Peepshow Live event, hosted by Jessie Sage and Courtney Trouble. They talk to guests Shy Spells, April Flores, and Destiny Diaz and fat politics and BBW porn.  This episode is sponsored by Assembly Four, After Adult Podcast, and Trouble Films.

Episode 90: Peepshow Live: BBW Porn and Fat Politics

This week we talk to porn star Joanna Angel about her new choose-your-own erotic novel Club 42. We also discuss the Atlanta shootings that took place on March 16 at massage parlors. This episode is sponsored by Assembly Four, After Adult Podcast, and Trouble Films.

Episode 89: Reading Erotica with Joanna Angel

In Episode 88, we talk to Heather Berg about her new book, Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism.  Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. This episode is sponsored by Assembly Four, Trouble Films, and After Adult Podcast. 

Episode 88: Porn Work with Heather Berg

In this episode, Mistress Blunt and I talk about our Mommy Domme origins, caregiver archetypes, communicating boundaries within relationships, rationalizing desire, and so much more.  The full transcript of our interview can be read on Blunt's website.  This episode is sponsored by Assembly Four, After Adult Podcast, and TROUBLEfilms. 

Episode 87: Mommy Dommes and Caregiver Archetypes with Mistress Blunt

Jessie Sage and guest-host Reese Piper talk to porn performer Dylan Thomas about his work, his F2M transition, coming out to his family as trans an a sex worker, and also the biometric technology that has been introduced at Pornhub and its potential impact on trans performers.  See Samantha Cole's piece on the biometric technology in Motherboard.  This episode was sponsored by Aorta Films, After Adult Podcast, Assembly Four and TroubleFilms. 

Episode 86: Biometrics scanning and trans porn performers with Dylan Thomas

This is a special episode on sex work and therapy, where Annie Solomon and I pull snippets of the interviews we did for our recent Pulp Magazine article on the same topic. Interviews include: femi babylon, Jet Setting Jasmine, Alan the Sex Chaplain, Mistress Blunt, and Emily Warfield. This episode was sponsored by Aorta Films, After Adult Podcast, Assembly Four and TroubleFilms. 

Episode 85: Why is it so hard for sex workers to find therapists?

Tracy Clark-Flory talks about her new book Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire.  We talk about sexuality, desire, grief, and love. Not to mention pregnancy, a maturing sexuality, and the neoliberal feminist myth of sexual empowerment and "having it all."  Tracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Marie Claire, The Guardian, Women's Health, and the yearly Best Sex Writing anthology. Prior to Jezebel, she was a senior staff writer at Salon, where she covered the sex beat for years. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.  This episode was sponsored by Aorta Films, After Adult Podcast, Assembly Four and TroubleFilms. 

Episode 84: From Sexual Explorations to Love with Tracy Clark-Flory

In Episode 83, we talk to Juniper Fitzgerald, author of the first children’s book to show a sex working mama, “How Mamas Love Their Babies.” We talk about sex work and motherhood, pregnancy, narrative, string theory, nostalgia, and more! We also talk about her essay in the new anthology, We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, edited by Tina Horn and Natalie West, and published on Feminist Press.  Episode sponsored by Aorta Films, After Adult Podcast, Assembly Four and TroubleFilms.  And special shoutout to Liara Roux and Frankie Rivers, our $50/month Patreon subscribers. patreon.com/peepshowpodcast 

Episode 83: Sex work, motherhood, and narrative with Juniper Fitzgerald

This is a special after dark episode where Courtney Trouble and Jessie Sage talk to Seska about aging in the sex industry, her multi decade career, the differences she felt between porn and escorting, why we all love threesomes, and more! You can check out Seska's work at seska.com. Episode sponsored by Aorta Films, After Adult Podcast, and the Old Pro Project. 

Episode 82: After Dark: Aging in the Sex Industry with Seska

Hosts Jessie and PJ Sage bring you news and stories from the sex industry featuring sex workers, artists, writers, academics, and activists . Each podcast features a roundup of recent news stories and interviews.

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