No Strings Attached: Casual Sex

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07/21/22 • 72 min

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We're talking about casual sex, baby! Haley and their housemate Ari hand-selected several personal ads looking for something sexy, passionate, and hedonistic--hold the emotion. The queers who wrote these ads are looking for a good time, not a long time.
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Music strummed by Omar Nassar. Cover art by Bekah Rich.

Sources
Oxford English Dictionary, Accessed online July 2022.
"Casual Sex" Urban Dictionary, created 2014. Accessed July 2022.
Philadelphia Gay News, 30 April 1982. JStor, Reveal Digital

On Our Backs, Summer and Fall 1986, stored at Brown University Special Collections, Accessed 2021.
Gay Community News (Boston, MA) 1 June 1974. JStor, Reveal Digital
LongLostPersonals Instagram, Dan Low, from 1976, posted on 18 June 2022.
Nuntius (Houston, TX), August 1976. Houston LGBT History Website
Outweek (NYC) 28 August 1989.
Outweek (NYC) 31 July 1989.
The Blade, (Washington, DC) September 1977. DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021).
Learn more about Techno Pagans at Dr. Alex Ketchum's Digital Project "From Tech Wizard to Cyber Witch" on Airtable.

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Interested in being on the show? Contact us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

Music strummed by Omar Nassar. Cover art by Bekah Rich.

Sources
Oxford English Dictionary, Accessed online July 2022.
"Casual Sex" Urban Dictionary, created 2014. Accessed July 2022.
Philadelphia Gay News, 30 April 1982. JStor, Reveal Digital

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Collecting [Queer] Personal Ads

This week, Haley geeks out with fellow personal ad aficionado and collector, Dan of @LongLostPersonals. His Instagram account contains hundreds of unique, sexy, and sometimes bizarre personal ads across the decades. Learn about the coded language men used to meet other men in the 1940s, and experience the dirtiest ad Dan has ever seen (so far).

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Music strummed by Omar Nassar. Cover art by Bekah Rich.

Sources:

The Link, 1920.
Hobby Directory, 1948.
Hobby Directory, 1948.
The Girlfriend and the Boyfriend, 1951.
Southern Voice, April 21 and 27, 1994. Digital Library of Georgia.
The Providence Phoenix, 1994.
Outweek, 31 July 1989.
Philadelphia Gay News, December 1976. JStor, Reveal Digital
Philadelphia Gay News, 30 April 1982. JStor, Reveal Digital
Skins, c. 1990s.

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Kinks with Kai

This episode, Haley teamed up with Kai of @Rotten_Treasure for one of the kinkiest episodes of the entire show. Sometimes it’s difficult to find a partner into the same things, in the same general geographic area--before Grindr, Craigslist, or KinkD, there were personal ads in the local LGBTQ magazine. Listen as we match with voyeurs, foot worshippers, Gumdrop Danglers, and more!
(Personal ads begin around 1 hour and 2 minutes.)
We mentioned:

Amanda Hess, “The Foot Fetish Brain Map,” Washington City Paper, 13 April 2010.

Justin Lehmiller, “Rats With Jacket Fetishes? What Animal Sex Studies Reveal About The Origin Of Unusual Sexual Interests,” Sex and Psychology, 16 January 2015.

Gayle Rubin, “South of Market Gay Leather History: A Short History and Walking Tour,” San Francisco Frontiers, 20 September 2001.

Kelsey Borresen, “The Difference Between A Fetish And Kink, According To Sex Experts,” Huffington Post, 25 July 2018.

“English Rockers in Leather” Gay Leather Fetish History,

"Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice" by Caroll Truscott.
JP Larocque, “A brief history of BDSM: From Sparta to Weimar Germany, kink has always been part of our sexuality” 13 November 2014.

Cameron Glover, “It’s Time to Recenter Kink and BDSM as Part of Radical Queer History” Slate, 7 November 2018.

J Raúl Cornier, Hanky Panky: An Abridged History of the Hanky Code, 23 April 2019.

Palmer Haasch and Canela López, “The debate over 'kink at Pride' divides the internet, but the kink community has been part of queer protest and celebration since Stonewall” Insider, 7 June 2021.

We read:

Drummer extras, “Tough Customers 4” published c. 1990s.

The Washington Blade (Washington, DC) , 27 November 1998.

OUT FRONT (Denver, CO) 15 February 1991

Outweek (NYC) 11 July 1990

Outweek (NYC) 8 Sep 1990
Southern voice (Atlanta, GA) February 17 and 23, 1994

The Body politic (Toronto, Canada), March 1984

The San Francisco Bay times. (California), Sep 1989

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