Episode 286: Tina Horn

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It's Valentine's Day, and the pod is serving up a hot 'n spicy episode with educatrix, writer, and former AVN-nominated director, Tina Horn! Regarding her sexuality, Tina says "as soon as I knew that I had a crush on Fox Mulder, I knew I had a crush on Dana Scully." Unfortunately, she was growing up in a small, homophobic town in Northern California, and so the majority of her early sexual partners were restricted to cis men. Tina categorizes those early experiences as "all right," but even as an adolescent, she was already aware of a fundamental truth: "I knew that I really liked sex, and I wanted to do it all the time, and I wanted more variety and, like, different kinds of sex." Tina discusses becoming a sex worker at a time when the Bay Area had a thriving queer and feminist porn scene, and explains why it is so important for her to be out as such, even though her time in the sex industry has "waxed and waned over the years." We also talk about Tina's comic series, "Deprog" (which features a hardboiled leatherdyke detective and a genderqueer femme fatale!), and her upcoming book of fetish cultural criticism, "Why Are People Into That?" based on her long-running podcast of the same name. All this, plus Lauren gives a special Queer Root Shout-Out (TM) to the most sapphic music video of ALL TIME!

Go to tinahorn.net to find out where you can pre-order both "Deprog" and "Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink" (and while you're there, sign up for Tina's newsletter as well!). Also follow Tina on Twitter and Instagram at @tinahornsass, and check out her podcast "Why Are People Into That?!" on all the usual platforms!

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:09.4	Happy Valentine's Day, if you are listening to this, the day that it drops.
0:15.1	Because it is Valentine's Day, I'm going to do a, I wanted to do a love story.
0:19.8	Queer root shout out. And this is one that is
0:22.1	very personal to me. I've been saving it for a special occasion. Shout out to you, if your
0:27.8	queer root, is the video for Aerosmith's crazy? This is a 90s deep cut, but if you've never seen this video, please promise me you will watch it.
0:41.3	It stars a young Alicia Silverstone and a young Liv Tyler, daughter of Stephen Tyler, of Aerosmith.
0:51.3	At the height of their popularity, it weaves a beautiful story of two
0:56.6	friends. I'll put friends in heavy air quotes. It is the most sapphic music video of all time.
1:03.2	It is unreal. It's like they skip school. They go on a road trip. They end up at a strip club
1:08.9	and live Tyler stripping and Alicia Silverstone's
1:11.5	wearing a men's suit and a hat and throwing money on the stage and then they go into a hotel
1:16.7	room or a cheap motel room and it like fades to, it's like they close the door. It is very sexy for
1:24.4	the 90s. I used to, as a young one, watch TV with a blank VHS in the VCR so that if the video
1:33.2	came on, I could record it.
1:35.0	This is how starved we were for queer content in the 90s.
1:38.9	So just, you know, when we say respect our ancestors, I'm the ancestor who sat with a VHS trying to record
1:46.1	Erosmith's video for crazy.
1:48.1	Shout out to you if you are an elder queer like me, and that video was part of your
1:55.0	queer awakening.
1:56.3	Y'all, continuing with Valentine's Day, I am very excited for today's episode. We are going to do
2:02.8	something a little different. My guest is Tina Horn. Hello, Tina. Hi, I'm so happy to be here.
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