You Will Please Me

Matthew of Baron Books: Joan Collins, Sex Shops, Imprisonment and The Death Book

You Will Please Me

Show Notes

Matthew of Baron Books joins Eva Oh on her play space sofa to indulge us on the pornographic origins of Baron and how the influence of powerful women shaped his views on identity and sexuality. They also chat sex shops, cruising apps, The Death Book, medical fetish, feeders, Versace, Bruce La Bruce and so so much more. Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/evaoh More on Eva Oh: https://eva-oh.com HIGHLIGHTS: Here are the timestamps for the video episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Welcome. What is #teakink (00:23) - Meet Matthew of Baron Books (02:15) - How Baron Books Began (03:35) - What is P*rn at Baron? (04:30) - We Won The Baron Prize - with our P*rn, Grief Encounter (06:30) - Sex, Sexuality and Powerful Women (09:15) - Femininity and the Lack of Representation of Gay Men (11:30) - It Started with a Photography Project on Cottaging (15:00) - The Bruce La Bruce Book Launch in a Sex Shop (17:15) - The Baron Sex Shop? (18:55) - My Ongoing Gripe About the Lack of Queer Cruising (20:15) - The Digital vs the Physicality of Books (23:25) - Jackie Collins, Versace, the Bitch and Sarah Baker (26:34) - Baron’s Impact on Matthew’s ‘Dynasty’ (28:15) - My Interest in Rage (29:04) - Baron and BDSM: Forniphilia with Namio Harukawa and Medical Fetishism with Romaine Slocombe (34:50) - How Baron Chooses Books (37:55) - Fat Bodies, Feeders and Control (40:10) - How Books and Baron are Evolving (43:50) - The Past, Present and Future of Sex Shops (46:40) - The Death Book, HIV, and Gay Identity (49:35) - Sex, Death, Control (52:25) - Problematic Projects, Publishing and Imprisonment

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