whorecast

A mini-report back from the Podcast Media Expo, and my brain is turning towards public sex.  Erotica on my most intense public sex experience.  Tell me back yours, whorecast[@]gmail[.]com.

This is the podcast I've wanted to record ever since I started whorecast, a how-to on doing Internet-based sex work, covering the law, privacy, security, and the market. Now that I'm basically retired, I decided to open my private del.icio.us resources, turned off my Tor, and got down with the basics (and not-so-basics) of starting to advertise yourself as a sex worker on the web. This is me trying to mind the gap between PGP and GFE (not that you should ever, ever use that last one anywhere). ROLL CREDITS Music: "Nebula Dub", by _ghost, from ccmixter.org Samples: "Females for Hire" // "crypto-hooker," the one and only Tucker Carlson

whorecast 015: Going to Vegas with the Money, Babies Launching the Desiree Alliance liveblog coverage of our conference, "Re-visioning Prostitution Policy" in Las Vegas, 09 - 12 July 2006 Subscribe to the Conference Blog: Sex Worker Rights(I'll be making audioposts there as part of my coverage; go ahead, subscribe.)Also: the golden age and marginalization of sex blogging, tea drinking and Joss Whedon, thoughts on BlogHer, Susie Bright, Audacia Ray, Scarlot Harlot, Halley Suitt, Susan Mernitt (not enough on that), blowjobs at Gnomedex, and a little dance party in your pants (or pantlessness, don't hate) care of dj earworm.Subscribe: (rss) * (itunes) * (odeo) Vote: (itunes) *(podcast alley) * (yahoo) whorecast 2006, some rights reserved for my creative commons license, and archives of these podcasts, go to sacredwhore.org 206 33 WHORE WHORECAST @ GMAIL.COM this has been a work in sex by melissa gira

whorecast 014: An Invitation to "30 Second Sex" WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29TH, 2006 30 Second Sex: a collaborative camshow featuring Ana Voog, Echo Transgression, and Melissa Gira Simultaneously webcast live at boa, and performed live at the opening night of Sex Worker Visions. Art opening begins at 6PM EST; 30 Second Sex begins live with chat at 7PM EST. Sex Worker Visions is an art exhibition, gathering of sex workers and their allies, a celebration of $pread magazineÃïs first birthday and a collaboration with Sex Work Matters. Featuring visual art by and about people in the sex industry, curated by Audacia Ray, executive editor of $pread and former assistant curator of the Museum of Sex. Artists include Anne Hanavan, Charise Isis, Cristy Road, Fly, Heather Corinna, Molly Crabapple, Paul Sarkis and George Pitts. The opening will also feature book signings by Tracy Quan and Scarlot Harlot. (Yes, Ana, Echo, and I -- actually together like this for the first time!) Subscribe: (rss) * (itunes) * (odeo) Vote: (itunes) *(podcast alley) * (yahoo) whorecast 2006, some rights reserved for my creative commons license, and archives of these podcasts, go to sacredwhore.org 206 33 WHORE WHORECAST @ GMAIL.COM this has been a work in sex by melissa gira

whorecast 013: What We Are At War Three original non-fiction pieces, originally performed at "Bombshell: Queers on Sex, War, and Homewrecking," as past of SFinXile at Jon Sims Center, San Francisco, recorded during a storm and dark moon and set to the music and news in my head for the past few months. Word "What We Are At War" (February 2006) "Amends for An A-K" (July 2003) "The Luxury of Violence (fragment)" (February 2006) Soundtrack Aegis, "Cells Spy (My Love" (music.podshow.com) Disparation, "The Library of Babel" (music.podshow.com) Shadow C, "The Message" (ccmixter.com) Samples Rep. John Murtha on Meet the Press (November 20, 2005) SBS Dateline, Abu Ghraib (February 2006) "Come Join the Fun," Prelinger Archives Remix (2004) (archive.org) Subscribe: (rss) * (itunes) * (odeo) Vote: (itunes) *(podcast alley) * (yahoo) whorecast 2006, some rights reserved for my creative commons license, and archives of these podcasts, go to sacredwhore.org 206 33 WHORE WHORECAST @ GMAIL.COM this has been a work in sex by melissa gira

WHORECAST 012 An Orgy of Meta My partner, J, joins me to share his commentary on my listener mailbag -- the best (and craziest) of the year's email -- expounding over port and a smoke on the very first "whorecast," lazy overusage of the word "whore," the viciously awesome force of third wave feminists, efforts to find new words for polyamory, how to really be a good boyfriend to a stripper, the continuing question of how "fake" sex workers are on the job, and even tells us his favorite podcasts, all on this year-end self-referential orgy of meta. Podcasts cited: Rope Weekly, Bedroom Radio, Podnography, Fox and the City, Democracy Now, Yeast Radio, (((noisydaughter))), Effects Corner Podcast. Blogs: TouchYourself.org. Film J couldn't remember the name of: Cradle Will Rock. Listener Feedback 206 33 WHORE whorecast at gmail dot com

WHORECAST 011 The Virtues of "Fake" Women Recorded more-or-less live from my last shift at the peep show, talking strippers and porn performers and the naked truth therein. A customer agrees to be podcasted! Clips played from Bedroom Radio and some pseudo-stripper-lovin' dude's podcast as he interviews a dancer. Righteous strip-und-drang, all in expensive lingerie.

WHORECAST 011 The Virtues of "Fake" Women Supplement: Fake Video Podcast Recorded more-or-less live from my last shift at the peep show, talking strippers and porn performers and the naked truth therein. A customer agrees to be podcasted! Clips played from Bedroom Radio and some pseudo-stripper-lovin' dude's podcast as he interviews a dancer. Righteous strip-und-drang, all in expensive lingerie.

WHORECAST 010 Yet Another Sex Magic Social Network The not-so-secret origins of my well-networked sexual explorations, from Usenet to webcams, Tantra to porn. Optional homework exercise included for the adventurous. Send your results and other commentary for air next time to: 206 33 WHORE whorecastATgmailDOTcom

WHORECAST 009 And God Is A Celebrity Like Myself ... in a sweet little shoutout to Soccergirl, with whom I'm so glad to share the title of First Naked Podcaster. Listen in now to And God Is A Celebrity Like Myself, both the name of whorecast 009 and the title of the piece I read (and discuss the delicately controversial history of). Photo: my wet setup. "It's always showtime, here at the edge of the bath." Turn me on stats-style by subscribing to whorecast with Odeo, and voting via Podcast Alley.

WHORECAST 008 Sex, Power, Money, God (whoresutra) The meat of this podcast is a piece I keep changing the name of: Whoresutra, Doing and Undoing a Sacred Whore, Unruly Meditations on a Sacred Whore, etc. I also keep swapping out the sutras therein. These four cover whoring with your lover, the dot-bomb Tantra implosion, whores and the war on terror, and finding goddess in a leather sling. Strap-on's & "sacred spots" really figure in this one, for some reason. Seems to be one of the common denominators in all the sex work I've done: more and more men -- more than some would assume -- really just want to have their legs spread and be "opened to the mystery within," ahem. Also, a smidge of commentary on the whole iTunes Music Store "porncast" phenom

WHORECAST 007 Featuring: Aphrodite's Hymen I lent my voice and a profile of a spiritual customer gone awry to this gorgeous piece by Aphrodite's Hymen, with gutsy, operatic vocals and found city sex sound filling the mix.

WHORECAST 006 Talking Those Philosophical Whoring Blues A bit of commentary and replay from an appearance on KALW's Philosophy Talk, also featuring Tracy Quan.

WHORECAST 005 A Cop and Two Whores An excerpt from our mock-takeover of KPFA, wherein a vice cop from a "large metropolitan California city" calls in to talk shop with us. The cop is not mock. Only our 2:30 in the morning tones is, at turns. (History, be kind.)

WHORECAST 004 Whore Culture Rising A wrap-up of the Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival and Whore College. Everyone from Scarlot Harlot to Jay Leno and a few more surprises.