Why Are People Into That? The Book is in bookstores everywhere!
Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink is available NOW in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook (read by me!)!
From spanking, strap-ons, and sluts, to taboos involving cake, chains, and cannibalism, WHY ARE PEOPLE INTO THAT? explores the universal drives that shape even the most specific erotic tastes, and the cultural context that molds and is molded by the way we conceptualize pleasure, gender, fantasy, and power. With buoyant prose, Tina invites us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about sexuality. How, for example, should we think about "consensual nonconsent" in a post-#MeToo era? How does cross-dressing fit in with our evolving cultural understanding of gender performance and identity? And what do foot fetishists, fisters, and FinDoms have in common?
Blending insightful cultural criticism, investigative journalism, and spicy anecdotes from Tina’s 15+ years of hard-earned expertise in the sex industry and beyond, WHY ARE PEOPLE INTO THAT? is a philosophical-but-fun exploration of the prismatic spectrum of human desire and the expansive possibilities of pleasure. For fans of adrienne maree brown and Emily Nagoski, this raunchy and rousing book is perfect for anyone who is interested not only in the intricacies of what we desire, but in how desire itself really works.
Deprog Vol 1 In Stores!
Tina Horn, Lisa Sterle, Gab Contreras, Dani Strips
Dead Sky Publishing, Sep 24, 2024 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 112 pages
https://deadskypublishing.com/portfolio-item/deprog/
Deprog is a new detective thriller from Tina Horn (SfSx) and Lisa Sterle (Witchblood) that' s John Constantine meets Jessica Jones with a kinky Midsommar twist. Meet Tate Debs, a hardboiled hard drinking leather loving dyke detective with an office in the back of Los Angeles' s last video store. Tate specializes in rescuing and deprogramming people from abusive groups with extreme beliefs -- like the one Tate herself escaped, that believed in inter-dimensional travel and taboo ritual sex. When a femme named Vera, who may just be fatale, hires Tate to infiltrate a group of mystical hippies out in the desert, she must decide if Vera' s charms are worth being re-traumatized. Soon, Tate must face her past out of devotion to the femme she may be falling for... and a single minded drive to avenge her family.
Role Play Workshop
Come learn how to get what you want by being someone you’re not!
Your favorite theater queer Tina Horn is back with a classic camp workshop: Advanced Role Play! The author of Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink goes deeper on negotiation, collaboration, and aftercare. In this online class, Tina will discuss the blurring of lines between scenes and 24/7 identity, and guide you through some inspirational close readings of taboo fantasy scenarios. Supernatural ethics, dirty talk techniques, fetish understanding, consent comprehension, authority figure dynamics, primal play, and special occasion party ideas are all in the script of this fun and dynamic workshop!
This class is for folks looking to deepen their fantasy lives in relationships, playing with friends at parties, or wowing their clients. Bring your favorite role plays and personas to expand upon, and be ready to start 2025 with a head full of thrilling new scene ideas! Tina's classes are always queer inclusive, sex work positive, slut-centric, and anti-racist.
This is an online class. A recording will be available to all ticket holders for 30 days.
Knuckle Up! A Fisting Workshop
Knuckle Up! A Fisting Workshop
Calling all size queens, all lovers of hands, those that love to gape and those who love to gush. The time has come to learn about the filthy art of fisting with Tina Horn, longtime educatrix and author of the new fetish book Why Are People Into That?! Let’s talk about how to fit your entire hand inside any hole, how to take a fist, and why people love to do this so damn much. This class will cover technique for tops and bottoms, including specifics for different holes, as well as positions, equipment, safety, and fantasy role play ideas. We’ll also fill you up with some cultural history about why fisting is such a significant symbol of queer and kink sexuality that anyone can enjoy. From poppers to slings, from squirting to enemas, this workshop will turn you inside out!
7733 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Obscenesters: Times Square Red Times Square Blue
The Obscenesters Book Club meets to discuss TIMES SQUARE RED, TIMES SQUARE BLUE by Samuel Delany, hosted by Tina Horn!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children’s theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there.
Samuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape.
This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany’s groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.
CNC Intensive
This October, do something that frightens you!
Learn how to get what you crave from human connection, pleasure, and power using the intensity of CNC play.
Take a deep dive into seemingly paradoxical yet profoundly vital kink concept of consensual non-consent (CNC). Whether you’re someone who entertains fantasies of force and surrender, or you simply believe that liberation for all can only emerge through collective grappling with eros, gender, and power, this intensive is for you.
Spots are limited so snag yours today!
Nitty Gritty
Three Tuesdays, 4pm-5:30pm PST, 90 minutes sessions via Zoom
October 8th, 15th, & 22nd, 2024
Every session will be an hour long presentation followed by half hour facilitated group discussion and Q&A
Sessions will be recorded (excluding group discussion to ensure discretion and open conversation): video and slideshow will be accessible after each session.
Sign up before September 30th to get an additional $50 off a one-on-one coaching session with Tina!
There will also be an in-person Meet and Greet discussion: location in North East LA will be revealed to folks who have signed up.
>>> SIGN UP HERE! <<<
Reviews of past workshops:
“I love Tina. She is so affable and comfortable to be around as well as funny and knowledgeable. I like that she always notes privilege and race in her classes.”
“I found Tina through researching my own sexuality, kinks, and fetishes. Her perspective and her work has really helped me personally and enriched my life for the better.”
“I loved the careful framing and context Tina gave! Sometimes it’s harder to talk about dark fantasies, but Tina created a positive space.”
FAQ:
What does it cost and what do I get?
$250 gets you access to all three live sessions and recordings, plus slideshow material, further reading, and group discussion. Anyone who signs up in September also gets $50 off a one on one coaching session with me!
There will also be an in-person Meet and Greet discussion session at a secret location in Northeast Los Angeles. Space is limited to facilitate an intimate discussion, so this portion is only available for the first ten SoCal-based students to sign up for this course. The Meet and Greet is $25 and will be available as an Add-On at check out.
Who is this intensive for?
Pervs and pros. The curious and the inquisitive. Tops, bottoms, and switches. All genders. Seasoned players will get tons of new skills and insight. Newbies are welcome, too: a Tina Horn Guide to BDSM Basics PDF will be sent out before class so we can assume familiarity with certain terms and how I define them within leather lineage.
My classes center queer leather experience and are designed to be equally useful for personal and professional play. My classes are always anti-racist and anti-fascist. I’m an experienced facilitator; community agreements will be clear, and disrespectful behavior will be dealt with ruthlessly.
What if I want to take this course but I can’t make the times?
Click the option for recording: for $125 all three lectures will be sent to you after the live session (discussion and Q&A component not included). If you sign up before September 30th, you’ll also get $25 towards an hour-long coaching session with Tina, so you can get the interaction you crave.
Why a CNC intensive?
CNC has been one of my most popular workshop and podcast topics over the past five-ten years. Even after writing a 10K word chapter on it for my new book Why Are People Into That: A Cultural Investigation of Kink, I’m still discovering new intellectual and emotional complexities to this controversial subject.
So I decided to offer a three part intensive: part lecture, part group discussion. We will cover consent politics, relationship ethics, cultural history, and erotic fantasy with a harm reduction framework.
This intensive is for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of CNC and kink desire, boundaries, negotiation, communication, fantasy, archetypes, aftercare, and much more!
Every time I teach this workshop I feel like I’m only scratching the surface. And there seems to be a hunger for this topic. I trust we’ll figure out why together!
What if I’m curious about CNC but the intensive cost doesn’t work for me?
With twenty years’ experience as a professional dominatrix, adult filmmaker, journalist, intimacy coach, BDSM consultant, and sexuality workshop leader, I feel confident about the value of this price. I’m a queer woman and small business owner who has learned the hard way to ask for what I need and want, which I hope is leading by example for the topic of this class. I am offering some sliding scale spots to QTPOC and SWers; if that’s you, please message me (tinahornshowbiz at gmail dot com) for a discount code. If this isn’t you, and you want to negotiate, message me; you may have something else that I want. ;)
What is the focus of the three sessions?
Oct 8: What is CNC and Why Are People Into That?!
Oct 15: CNC Scene Ideas and Dirty Talk
Oct 22: The Evolving Politics and Ethics of CNC
>>> JUST LET IT HAPPEN! <<<
Writing Countercultures: from Leather to Ballroom w Sydney Baloue
Tina in conversation with Sydney Balou at Tom of Finland house
What does it mean for queers to write about their own countercultures? Join Tina Horn, author of the new book Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink, and Sydney Baloue, author of the upcoming book Undeniable: A History of Voguing, Ballroom and How It Changed My Life (and the World), for a conversation on nonfiction craft, infiltrating mainstream publishing, and the challenges of being true to your community while also telling compelling true stories.
YAPIT Book Event: Room of One's Own, Madison WI
A Room of One's Own is excited to welcome Tina Horn for a conversation on her newest book Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink in conversation with Room's very own bookseller G Romero Johnson. Join us for a deep dive into the world of kink!
This is an in person event at A Room of One's Own, 2717 ATWOOD AVE, Madison WI
https://www.roomofonesown.com/event/why-are-people-evening-tina-horn-and-g-romero-johnson
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC)
A free comics art & animation festival based in Columbus, Ohio
https://cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org/speaker/tina-horn/
SEPT 28, 11am: Spotlight on DEPROG, Columbus Metropolitan Library, with Tina Horn and Lisa Sterle - moderated by Justin Hall. Located in Room 1A.
YAPIT Book Event: Moon Palace, Minneapolis, MN
Why Are People Into That? book reading and discussion with Tina Horn and Lyn Corelle
Join Moon Palace Books and Tina Horn on Wednesday, September 25th at 6:00pm to celebrate the release of her new book Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink. Tina will be joined by Lyn Corelle, co-editor of Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!, for a discussion of the liberatory power of queer pleasure, spicy prose, and exhibitionist zines.
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**
Moon Palace Books / 3032 Minnehaha Ave. / Minneapolis, MN
Obscenesters Book CLub: Yes Roya
Join us for the 3rd meeting of the OBSCENESTERS BOOK CLUB, reading and discussing all things abject, obscene, smutty, and titillating, hosted by the great Tina Horn!
At our September meeting we will be discussing YES ROYA by C. Spike Trotman.
INFO HERE: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lzn94zft
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Wylie Kogan is an aspiring artist, stumping for work in 1963 California. When a fawning fan letter grants him access to his cartoonist hero, the wealthy and celebrated Joseph Ahlstrom, he’s quick to take advantage of a proffered portfolio review . . . but winds up learning more than he ever wanted to about Joe when he stumbles across some of his idol’s illicit fetish art.
His hasty, ill-considered theft of a drawing triggers a series of events he never planned on . . . most of which involve Joseph’s imposing and resolute partner, Roya.
This universally-lauded erotic classic of poly femdom, originally published in black and white, is now available in brilliant FULL COLOR!
Book Passage Corte Madera w Maxine Holloway
Marin County folks! Join me for a book talk and signing with my old friend Maxine Holloway at Book Passage in Corte Madera!
https://www.bookpassage.com/event/tina-horn-maxine-holloway-why-are-people-corte-madera-store
Maxine Holloway is a sex worker, advocate, and artist based in Oakland, California. She began her career in the Bay Area’s creatively-minded kink and Queer porn scene. Her writing and artwork explore themes of desire, Mommy archetypes, labor, MILF culture, commodification, and grief. Her in-person sessions specialize in the appreciation of pregnancy and Mommies. Her performances have earned AVN nominations, an XBIZ award, and a Feminist Porn Award, and have been showcased in film festivals worldwide. During her SOMArts curatorial residency, she created the multi-media exhibition “We’re Still Working - The Art of Sex Work.” As co-founder and co-director of Bay Area Workers Support (BAWS), she collaborates with a dedicated team to practice community care and mutual aid for local sex workers.
Fabulosa Books w Miah Jeffra
Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
Miah Jeffra is author of four books—most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley and Robert C Jones Book Prizes) and the novel American Gospel, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award—and is co-editor of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart. Work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Anomaly, DIAGRAM, storySouth and many others. Miah is co-founder of Whiting Award-winning queer and trans literary collaborative, Foglifter Press, and teaches writing and decolonial studies in universities around the Bay.
Info here: https://www.fabulosabooks.com/events.html
YAPIT Live at Good Vibes Berkeley w Annie Rose Malamet
East Bay folks! Join me for a YAPIT? Live and book signing with my fave perv Annie Rose Malamet at the legendary pleasure product shop Good Vibes on San Pablo in Berkeley!
3pm, July 28, Good Vibrations Berkeley / 2504 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, CA 94702
Annie Rose Malamet will be joining Tina for this event. Annie is an internationally recognized lesbian vampire expert, freelance film writer, and perverted aesthete. She is the creator of the popular podcast Girls, Guts, & Giallo, where she examines controversial and subversive cinema through the lens of queer leather and sex work history and sensibilities. Annie has lectured and presented work at festivals and colleges in both the United States and Europe. She has appeared as a cultural expert in the Shudder documentary Queer for Fear and on the PBS show Historian’s Take. Her essays and reviews have been in various publications over the last decade. She has published essays and audio commentary for special editions released through Second Sight, Severin Films, and Vinegar Syndrome.
Refreshments will be available at 3:00pm prior to the event.
Kinky Dirty Talk Workshop
Dirty talk and sexual communication are challenging for all people, but kinksters and queers in particular have an imperative to work on these skills. Language in relation to gender, bodies, sex acts, and identity has the potential to be triggering, empowering or re-claiming for queers and those who love them. The more we know how to communicate desires and boundaries, and know what to consider, the more fun we can have with our mouths opened AND closed!
Join professional smack talker Tina Horn as we share basic tools for great dirty talk and discuss the importance of desire and boundary communication for kinky play. You will gain something from this class whether or not you identify as kinky and/or queer, and regardless of your gender.
Refreshments will be available at 4:30pm prior to the workshop.
Deprog Issues 1-4 Bundle on Sale at Dead Sky now!
Issue 2 of my newest comic book crime thriller is in comic book stores now! Call your local comic book store to put the series on your pull list to get Issues 3 and 4 when they’re released over the next two months. The first trade collection will be out in September 2024 and you can preorder that now wherever books are sold!
Issue 2: The hunt for Vera's brother leads detective Tate on a desert road trip with her apprentice Les, where they are stalked by a figure with a mysterious tattoo. As Tate and Vera fall more in lust, they narrow in on their target: the abusive cult from Tate's past.
Kinkyoke w 7 Days of Domination at HMU NYC
Featuring an opening talk with queer writer Joseph Osmundson and ofc an opening performance from Tina herself. Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore will be onsite selling copies of the book and a selection of other kinky texts.
It’s a karaoke party with a kinky twist: you get to sing whatever you want as long as you’re doing a scene during your song. Perform for fun! For Glory! For PRIZES! Think a ‘wrecking ball’ rope scene. Singing Jewels “hands” while fist deep in another person. Needle play to "Last Resort," “99 Red Balloons” but with poppers....you get the idea. This can be the whole crew singing or just you (or your bottom!) Let your inner exhibitionist out while the whole crowd sings along.
Powerhouse Industry City Brooklyn w Tamara Santibañez
Tamara Santibañez is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and oral historian living and working in Brooklyn. Their practice is rooted in storytelling and the visual language of identity construction, exploring subcultural semiotics and the meanings we make from bodily adornment. Their work has been exhibited at JTT Gallery, Selenas Mountain, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, and in performance at MoMA PS1, among others.They are author of Could This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Work (Afterlife Press), and were a recipient of Duke University’s DocX Fellowship for 2024.
Damiana Studios Philly w Sophie lewis
https://www.queerbooks.com/product/why-are-people-into-that-a-cultural-investigation-of-kink/
To get a limited seat to this intimate party at a private Philly dungeon on June 21th — featuring a talkback with Sophie Lewis and a special BDSM performance — purchase YAPIT the book from Giovanni’s Room at QueerBooks.com at the link above. Then, email your receipt to damianastudios@protonmail.com for address and details. Location details will be emailed back to you. Or, email Damiana Studios (damianastudios@protonmail.com) for access to the virtual livestream from the event for $10-30 sliding scale!
Little District Books DC w Mistrix Sunmi
https://littledistrictbooks.com/products/book-launch-with-tina-horn
Thursday June 20 @ 8:30pm
Little District Books / 737 8th St SE, Washington, DC 20003
Mistrix Sunmi (she/they/Daddy) moves through the world as a professional dominatrix & leather dyke multidisciplinary artist. Currently based in Washington DC, and soon moving to NYC summer 2024. Mistrix Sunmi is known for their energetic perverse presence, throwing whips & slinging strap. Her passion for training, corruption, & intimacy guide her domination style and art work. Stay connected at MistrixSunmi.com , IG: Serve.Sunmi Twitter: ServeSunmi
Into That Live at Junior High
Join us for a celebration of Tina Horn's new book Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink, where some of the best performance artists in the biz titillate you with acts inspired by the book’s fetish themes! Raunchy readings, dark burlesque, in your face drag, and much more!
PLEASE NOTE: this event will take place at Junior High LA, located at 603 S Brand Blvd, Glendale, with North Figueroa Bookshop selling books on-site.
TICKETS ARE HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/into-that-the-experience-tickets-894067258237?aff=oddtdtcreator
7:30pm doors, 8pm show
*Your ticket includes a copy of the book plus free admission to the show including complimentary wine and seltzer.
*No Tricks Just Treats will be selling tasty snacks!
Featuring:
Tina Horn
Spike “Prince of Cats”
Via L’ Once
Charles Galin King
Bytch Nastee
YAPIT Book Launch
Intimate launch party at a fabulous local bookstore featuring a conversation between Tina and leather community organizer (and fisting enthusiast) Rogelio Ruckus! Free and low key in Highland Park, Los Angeles
Info here: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lvmy1oy2
Very special epsiode of the podcast
In this exclusive preorder reward podcast episode, Tina is interviewed about the emotional process of writing Why Are People Into That? The Book, Sam Delany, brats, vials of blood, and more — by a VERY SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST. This episode is extra intimate and will never be released on the main feed!
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: Knuckle Up: Fisting w Tina Horn
Get your tickets here -> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-knuckle-up-a-fisting-workshop-with-tina-horn-tickets-865944692887?aff=oddtdtcreator
Calling all size queens, all lovers of hands, those that love to gape and those who love to gush. The time has come to learn about the filthy art of fisting with Tina Horn, longtime educatrix and author of the new fetish book Why Are People Into That?! Let’s talk about how to fit your entire hand inside any hole, how to take a fist, and why people love to do this so damn much. This class will cover technique for tops and bottoms, including specifics for different holes, as well as positions, equipment, safety, and fantasy role play ideas. We’ll also fill you up with some cultural history about why fisting is such a significant symbol of queer and kink sexuality that anyone can enjoy. From poppers to slings, from squirting to enemas, this workshop will turn you inside out!
This is an online class. A recording will be available to all ticket holders for 30 days.