The Oldest Profession Podcast
Old Pros
The Oldest Profession Podcast reminds listeners that sex workers have always been part of the story. Each episode focuses on an “old pro” from history, contextualizing that figure in their own time and connecting their story to the ongoing struggle for sex worker rights.
Your host, Kaytlin Bailey, is a nationally touring stand up comic, notorious old pro, and sex worker rights advocate. She’s partnered with the whole team at Old Pros to create an accessible and entertaining resource for anyone who wants to learn more about sex workers and our place in history.
https://oldprosonline.org/the-oldest-profession-podcast
Your host, Kaytlin Bailey, is a nationally touring stand up comic, notorious old pro, and sex worker rights advocate. She’s partnered with the whole team at Old Pros to create an accessible and entertaining resource for anyone who wants to learn more about sex workers and our place in history.
https://oldprosonline.org/the-oldest-profession-podcast
Episodes
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Oct 30, 2020 • 52min
Old Pro Panel: Victoria Woodhull
Dr. Charlene Fletcher (Historian for The Oldest Profession Podcast) hosts a discussion with EPB (Writer, Visual Artist, and Researcher for Liminal Praxis) and Kaytlin Bailey (CEO + Founder of Old Pro Productions) about Victoria Woodhull and what we can take from her story in terms of sexual freedom, and the complexities and multitudes that women contain.
Oct 21, 2020 • 31min
Victoria Woodhull Part Three
In part three, host Kaytlin Bailey recounts the end of Woodhull's life, and notes her impact on the Suffrage Movement that has somehow (yet also intentionally) mostly been forgotten. Victoria Woodhull was a suffragette, stock broker, rumored sex worker, and first female candidate for the President of the United States. A woman who wore many hates and was called many names. Stock Media provided by sounddogs / Pond5
Oct 14, 2020 • 37min
Victoria Woodhull Part Two
In part two, host Kaytlin Bailey notes Woodhull's crucial involvement in the Women's Suffrage Movement, and recounts the events that ultimately lead to her trouble with law enforcement. Victoria Woodhull was a suffragette, stock broker, rumored sex worker, and first female candidate for the President of the United States. A woman who wore many hates and was called many names. Stock Media provided by sounddogs / Pond5
Oct 7, 2020 • 47min
Victoria Woodhull Part One
Discover the groundbreaking journey of Victoria Woodhull, a trailblazer in women's rights and the first woman to run for president. Explore her transformation from a struggling mother to a pioneering stockbroker who challenged societal norms in the Victorian era. Delve into her intriguing connection with spiritualism and insider trading alongside her sister, as they launched the first female-owned brokerage firm. Uncover the duo’s lavish gatherings that merged elite social circles with revolutionary ideas, including the first American translation of the Communist Manifesto.
Jul 11, 2019 • 17min
Lou Graham
At a time where full service sex workers in Seattle euphemistically called themselves seamstresses, Madam Lou Graham was so rich that she served as an alternative to banks, giving loans to business propositions deemed too risky by bankers. She was also largely responsible for the funding of Seattle's school system. At the height of her power, Graham got arrested by a rookie cop who clearly did not know who he was dealing with. She was so influential that she was cleared of all charges AND had the police commissioner fired.
Apr 30, 2019 • 23min
Cardi B
The most famous sex worker of today's music industry, Cardi B unabashedly flaunts and celebrates her past as a stripper in her songs, music videos, and social media.
Apr 10, 2019 • 20min
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Best known for is commercial paintings of the moulin rouge, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was also a john who (literally) lived in brothels. As a tenant and client, Toulouse-Lautrec created compelling portraits of the full service sex workers with whom he socialized. His empathetic gaze captured the elements of their lives often missed by more sensationalist or romanticized depictions of sex work by other artists of his time.
Apr 3, 2019 • 18min
Ching Shih
Ching Shih went from working as a full service sex worker on a floating brothel in Canton to becoming the one of the most successful pirate captains in the history of the world.
Mar 7, 2019 • 26min
Marilyn Monroe
In 1949, Marilyn Monroe, struggling to make ends meet as an actress, got paid 50$ to pose nude for a calendar. She worked as a pinup and, some say, as a prostitute before becoming an internationally recognized sex symbol & box office sensation. Her vibrant, sensuous charisma, her comedic genius and witty flair deeply resonates with old pros and civilians alike- over fifty years after her death, we're still obsessed with her.
Feb 21, 2019 • 20min
Tlazōlteōtl
This Mesoamerican Goddess was the deity of vice, filth, purification, steam baths, lust, fertility, adulterers and, you guessed it, sex workers. She symbolically castrated priests in elaborate rituals, and provoked and pardoned her followers' sin in a never ending circle of life, sex and death.
