#353 Meet the Trailblazing Pornographer (Formerly Butt Girl) - with Tristan Taormino

Shameless Sex

Amy Baldwin

Self-improvement, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Education

4.3 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Fan girl moment! In this episode we interview one of our idles, Tristan Taormino. We learn all about her life from her upbringing to what lead her to become a trailblazing feminist pornographer and why she's proudly known as Butt Girl. Tristan also shares advice for folks who want to watch ethical porn, as well as how to navigate shame around being turned on by rough or objectifying imagery or fantasies. Get ready to laugh, learn, and listen to an inspiring life story! About our guest: Tristan Taormino is a writer, speaker, sex educator, and host of the podcast Sex Out Loud. A former syndicated columnist for The Village Voice, she is the author of numerous books, including Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships, Down and Dirty Sex Secrets, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, and her recent memoir A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten. She is the founding editor of the annual Best Lesbian Erotica anthologies, editor of The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play, and the Erotic Edge, and coeditor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. Taormino has won four Lambda Literary Awards and eight Feminist Porn Awards, among other awards. She lives in Los Angeles. To learn more go to tristantaormino.com Join us for our live Topless (and tapas) book reading in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 15th! Tickets are limited to snag yours ASAP here Pre-order our book now! Go to shamelesssex.com and get free access to our online workshop How to Pamper Your Partner for every book preorder (offer/workshop is exclusive to preorders). Other links: Start meditating now with 40% off a Calm Premium subscription at calm.com/shameless Get 20% off The Personal Massager by Butter Wellness when you go to butterwellness.com and use the code “SHAMELESS” at checkout Get 10% off + free shipping with code SHAMELESS10 on Uberlube AKA our favorite lubricant at uberlube.com Get 10% off while mastering the art of pleasure at OMGyes.com/shameless Get 15% off all of your sex toys with code SHAMELESSSEX at purepleasureshop.com

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0:00.0	I'm Amy, Sex Educator, Sex and Relationship Coach, and co-owner of Pure Pleasure Shop.
0:07.0	And I'm April, Sex Toy Maven, VP of Hot Octopus, and I've dedicated my life to the business of sex.
0:13.0	We're two people with a passion for educating and inspiring shame-free conversations about sex and relationships.
0:19.0	Welcome to the Shameless Sex Revolution.
0:25.0	Want to learn more?
0:26.0	Go to Shameless Sex.
0:28.0	And for 15% off of some of our favorite sex toys,
0:31.0	use coupon code Shameless Sex pure pleasure shop.com.
0:34.7	You were listening to a pleasure podcast. For more from our sex podcast collective,
0:40.7	visit pleasure podcasts.com. Well hello everyone. Hi pleasure podcast. dot com.
0:43.0	Well hello everyone.
0:44.0	Hi everybody.
0:46.0	Welcome back to the Shameless Sex Podcast.
0:48.0	If you are listening on the day this is released, it's Halloween.
0:51.0	Moa ha, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, time. It's Halloween. on an airplane going to Costa Rica for our first retreat or sold out retreat for
1:05.0	shameless sex retreat yes for Vova owning folks for women and we're very
1:09.2	excited and just stay tuned we won't talk too much about this but we are planning
1:12.3	our next retreat for late
1:13.4	April which will be in Touloum so stay tuned we will share more later on.
1:17.3	It's so nice and also we I just want to say this we forgot to tell people for the
1:22.1	scholarship we chose someone for
1:24.1	the scholarship spot for this retreat that we're doing in Costa Rica right now as we
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