Hello, lovely humans. I'm WIO Lee, and you're listening to Sex Stories, a podcast where we dive into the details of sex lives and sex work lives in an effort to take care of the sexy parts of ourselves and each other.

The focus today is professional and our guest is the CEO and founder of Pineapple Support.

Pineapple Support is a nonprofit organization providing mental health and emotional

support to adult industry professionals across the globe.

Connected to the adult industry for over 20 years, previously the owner of a BDSM toy store,

a fetish model, professional dominatrix, and many moons ago, a pole dancer.

Welcome Leah.

Hello. How are you? I'm just going to throw it out there. First and foremost, if anyone who is watching sees me waving my arms in the air,

there are mosquitoes in the office. Oh, man, I hope you don't get bitten too much. Start up by

telling us about your work. So how are you making the world a sexy or more loving place? And tell us what is your professional origin story? We got a little snippet, but give us the details, pretty please.

So we are making the world sexier by making people mental health better because sane is sexy. We provide persons working in the online adult industry with professional mental health care

and also 24-7 emotional support, which is run by trained peers, so anyone can sign up to do that.

We have loads of different resources, I'm sure we will no doubt dive into those later.

But as a little

backstory, I've been obsessed by sex forever. I mean, even as a young child, just I don't know.

I don't know why. I don't know where from. Just always this fixation on sex.

And so I somehow stumbled upon my first BDSM party when I was 15 or 16.

And they really looked after me.

I didn't see any of the kinky stuff that was going on for me.

It was just a fancy dress party, almost, you know, but with really caring wonderful people and that's kind of where the story started and from there you know as soon as i was 18 almost

i started uh i was dancing in the first strip club when it opened in um in my hometown and continued

dancing for a couple of years.

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