Loose: A Podcast About the History of Sex and Vice

Because I’m a Witch Oct 13, 2020

A brief history of witchcraft with a bit of sex history, a tarot reading, a discussion of climate and a bit of theorizing about why men are like this with my good friend Taylor.

To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter

To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content

Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time For a Riot by Honeycutts

Sources used in this week's episode included:

Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

Witches. Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J Sollet

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/witchcraft-penis-snatchers-history

Moonshine Queens Sep 22, 2020

Few times I been over yonder, and I ain’t no holler back girl. We take it back to my roots today to talk a little bit about the history of moonshine and the women who ran the streets, seas, and the roads back in Prohibition days and before.

To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter

To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode

Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Bluegrass Bean by The Undertowns

Sources used in this week's episode included:

What You are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

https://www.historycolorado.org/story/2020/03/12/openly-and-gusto-how-women-moonshiners-led-denvers-first-female-cop

https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/women-bootleggers/

Emma Goldman and Her Boys Sep 08, 2020

“You have to be a messy queen to change the world”. Join Quinn and Daria Kucher as we follow Cancer queen and radical anarchist Emma Goldman through her dating life reminding all of us out there in the fight for a better world that it’s okay to like flowers, dancing, and boys at the same time.

To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter

To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode

Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts

Sources used in this week's episode included:

Living My Life by Emma Goldman

Wet Ass P-Word: History of Bad Words Aug 25, 2020

WAPs, Dirty Blues, The Filthy Speech Movement and more. Camille and I cover all the embarrassing movements of people fighting for the right to swear and talk through respectability politics. The only acceptable WAP thinkpiece.

Sources used in this weeks episode were:

Make Love, Not War by David Allyn

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

“Shave Em Dry” by Lucille Bogan

http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt687004sg&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=d0e8112&toc.id=d0e353

Music was Time for a Riot by Honeycutts

Extra content is available on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Nola Drag Tours booking is available at noladragtours.com

The Lavender Scare Aug 11, 2020

Worried the gays might spill the tea to the Russians, the US Government spent most of the Red Scare not finding communists and ruining the lives of gay men and lesbians living in Washington DC, until the Mattachine Society of Washington finally fought back. With special guest Evan Spigelman.

To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter

To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode

Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts

Sources used in this episode were:

The Lavender Scare: The Cold Ware Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K Johnson

Sex and the Office by Julie Berebitsky

Anita Bryant: The Gays vs Orange Juice Jul 28, 2020

Episode contains homophobic slurs.

Well at least it’s a fruit pie. The original poor innocent cancelled free speech warrior Anita Bryant, the movement, and the myth. The story of how a hateful bigot galvanized two opposite movements and gay people stopped drinking orange juice.

There will be a one week break between episodes to put together some fascinating new projects.

Consider supporting Loose on Patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Get in touch with me at @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter.

Sources:

Youtube Clips of Anita Bryant in Interviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fABwascm12s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6i5Y6t1nI&t=130s

Fuck Anita Bryant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBe2Bq4jYPA

John BirdsallThe Orange Juice Boycott That Changed America

https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/the-orange-juice-boycott-that-changed-america

Emily Johnson, The myth that has shaped the Christian Right and the LGBTQ rights movement for four decades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/21/myth-that-has-shaped-christian-right-lgbtq-rights-movement-four-decades/

Get Over It Joanne: A Crash Course in Trans/Enby History Jul 21, 2020

If I can’t wear jeggings and a crop top, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution. Were there trans and nonbinary people in the past? Spoiler alert: Yes. This episode is a crash course in the deep and rich history of gender variance and the rise of the gender binary.

Sources for this episode listed on loosepodcast.com

To get in touch, find me on instagram @quinnlarouxdrag or on twitter @quinnlaroux

I am trying to get better at both.

Support Loose on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

A Slow, Pony Express Grindr Jul 14, 2020

Physique Pictorials, the fight to print gay smut, daddy culture, and terribly cringey old gay photos reviewed with critically aclaimed comedian Roman Ellis.

Photos Discussed in this episode can be found on:

https://www.advocate.com/media/2017/8/08/short-lurid-history-physique-pictorial-36-pics#slide-0

We specifically discussed slides: 10, 14, 16, 18, and 26

To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter

To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this week's episode

Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts

As well as the initial image appearing on Coitus magazine: https://coitusmagazine.com/

Sources used in this week's episode included:

Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepenuers Sparked a Movement by David Kyle Johnson

https://www.advocate.com/media/2017/8/08/short-lurid-history-physique-pictorial-36-pics#slide-0

Perversion for Profit (1965) Available on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om4kMTw-R6o

More Dangerous Than Any Fleet of German Airplanes Jul 07, 2020

The deeply hidden history of that one time the US government rounded up all the promiscuous women and forced them into quarantine camps. If you patriotutes needed one more reason to feel weird about celebrating the fourth of July you found it. Stalking, profiling, bad science, and most importantly, resistance.

With special guest, comedian, and country club girl Camille Roane.

To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter

To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode

Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts

Sources used in this week's episode included:

The Trails of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveilance, and the Decades Long Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women by Scott Stern

https://www.history.com/news/chamberlain-kahn-act-std-venereal-disease-imprisonment-women

Crimes Against Nature Fact Sheet

https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/louisiana-s-crime-against-nature-law-modern

We Recruit! Lesbian Separatists and Avengers Jun 30, 2020

Lesbians lusting for power, separating, and eating fire, this week we remembers some lesbian movements throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s. This week we are joined by special guest Amanda G, Host of Near and Queer to My Heart. Be sure to check out Near and Queer to My Heart https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/near-and-queer-to-my-heart/id1330013683 To support Loose on Patreon go to patreon.com/loosepodcast\ To get in touch with me you can find me on instagram @quinnlarouxdrag or on twitter @quinnlaroux Music provided through Epidemic sound includes: Time for a Riot by Honeycutts Sources Used in this week’s episode included: http://www.lesbianavengers.com/about/history.shtml Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy A History of US Feminisms by Rory Dicker

The Coors Boycott Jun 23, 2020

A lil history of Rainbow Capitalism, corporate boycotts, badass coalition and the hokey pokey style of liberation with special guest Jenna Siegel @capitalismisgross

To support the show on patreon: patreon.com/loospodcast

Get in touch with Quinn: @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram @quinnlaroux on twitter

Sources for this weeks episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1JLv7zeNg&t=11s

The Queering of Corporate America: How Big Business Went from LGBTQ Adversary to Ally by Carlos A. Ball

Music provided through epidemic sound:

Time for a Riot by Honeycutts

Season 2: Notes on a New Sexual Revolution Jun 17, 2020

Get ready for a brand new season of Loose. If you are feeling as rebellious as I am, get ready for a whole seasons of the history of rebellious sex radicals, queers, and everybody not quite willing to follow the rules.

Music used in this teaser was Time for a Riot by Honeycutts provided through Epidemic Sound

Too Deep to Handle May 12, 2020

Too Hot to Handle mixed with a quick history of St. Augustine, the spice trade, the colonization of India, and anti-sex feminism

What does a reality show about chastity in 2020 say about us and our past? Listen to a discussion about religion, Orientalism, and feminism’s history with chastity and intimacy though the context of a mess of a reality show. with special guest Ashley Charest.

Support for Loose comes from listeners like you through Patreon. You can support the show at patreon.com/loosepodcast.

Loose is an independent podcast produced by Quinn Laroux who you can find on Instagram @quinnlarouxdrag

Sources for this weeks episode include but were certainly not limited to:

I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire

Blessed by Kate Bowler

Her Own Hero by Wendy Rouse

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India by Jessica Hinchy

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World by John H Halpern

Reasonably Believed to be Relevant: Strip Club Politics Part 2 May 05, 2020

This week we continue our coverage of strip clubs and the law. This week I’ll be reporting on a longstanding historical strategy to get rid of strip clubs by creating the myth that they are more dangerous and bring to light one of the modern villains suppressing vice

Loose is an independent production by Quinn Laroux. If you would like to get in touch you can find her on Instagram @quinnlarouxdrag

Like the show? Support it on Patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

The Strip club in Oregon running while social distancing: https://www.insider.com/oregon-strip-club-drive-thru-show-and-takeout-food-coronavirus-2020-4

Sources and Resources used in this episode include:

Behind the Burly Q by Leslie Zemeckis

https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/59v9x3/sex-scenes-times-square

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/nyregion/shuttered-clubs-scrambled-lives.html

https://www.ambushmag.com/rawhide-phoenix-an-investigation/

https://thelensnola.org/2019/02/01/the-case-for-cameras-a-smart-way-to-regulate-nuisance-bars-and-strip-clubs/

https://www.nola.com/news/business/article_43add0bc-e547-11e9-a8d5-fb61d5191f2f.html

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_33d94f3e-fb21-53e0-aa66-9b5ac85ad49e.html

https://www.projectq.us/atlanta/City_of_Atlanta_hires_anti-gay_attorney_to_fight_Tokyo_Valentino

City of Erie v. Pap's A.M. and the Future of Sexually Oriented Business Regulation, 41 Municipal Lawyer 6 (Sept/Oct 2000)

http://adultbusinesslaw.com/downloads/MLSeptOct02scancopy.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2UdyOLQAkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v2hnA0GtJk

The Public Interest: Strip Club Politics Part 1 Apr 28, 2020

The Small Business Association has denied pandemic relief to every strip club in the US, begging the question, why? The first of two episodes on strip clubs, we are covering stripper unions, bumping and grinding, and a recent discussion on the Lousiana State House of Representatives.

Loose is hosted and produced by Quinn Laroux who you can get in touch with on instagram or through email at @quinnlarouxdrag or quinnlarouxdrag@gmail.com

Support for Loose comes from patrons at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Sources for this week’s episode include:

Behind the Burly Q by Leslie Haret Zemeckis

Make Love, Not War by David Allyn

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/lobbyists-strip-clubs-stimulus-loans/index.html

https://www.thebillfold.com/2016/09/why-an-exotic-dancer-is-financially-just-like-your-hairdresser/

Announcement Apr 21, 2020

For several reasons, Loose is taking a one week break. We'll be back next week with a brand spanking new format that tackles current news using the history we've been talking about.

Get Your Filthy Hands Off Me Apr 14, 2020

Queerness and pro-wrestling have a long and fascinating history. Today we cover everyone from Dizzy Davis, to Gorgeous George, to Goldust. Learn about dick flips, Exoticos, and more with special guest, local drag queen and wrestling enthusiast Dolly Pardon? (@dragimprov and @dollypardondrag)

Be sure to also check out local New Orleans Drag Wrestling Chokehole @choke.hole

Loose is produced and hosted by Quinn Laroux (@quinnlarouxdrag)

Support for Loose comes from listeners like you through patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Sources and further reading for this weeks episode include but are not limited to:

Wrestling’s Gay History and Fabulous Future by Christa Pagliei

https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-wrestling-stories/wrestlings-gay-history-and-fabulous-future/

Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men by Jane Ward

Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement by David K Johnson

Wrestlers Mentioned:

Dizzy Davis

Gorgeous George

Paul and Ron Dupree

Chris Colt

Pat Patterson

Goldust

The West Hollywood Blondes

Billy and Chuck

Joey Ryan

Sonny Kiss

Nyla Rose

Effy

xoxo Victoria Woodhull Apr 07, 2020

XOXO Victoria Woodhull. The original Gossip Girl, notable spiritualist, free love advocate, and first woman to run for President, was also involved in blowing one of the biggest sex scandals in US History. Live, Laugh, Free Love.

Loose is an independent podcast by Quinn Laroux. Get in touch at @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or through quinnlarouxdrag@gmail.com

Support for Loose comes from listeners like you, if you like to support an gain access to more content. Loose is on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Sources for this weeks episode include but were not limited to:

Lust on Trail by Amy Beth Werbel

The Beecher-Tilton Affair by Robert Shaplen https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/12/the-beecher-tilton-case-ii

Most of Victoria Woodhull’s speeches are public domain and available online if you would like to understand why she thought the way she did

The Sexual Circus Mar 31, 2020

Epcot, but it’s brothels. Today we’re talking about sexual performances, “exotic” dance, “fancy foreign girls”, and the French Shows. We’re talking Orientalism oyster dancing, and creating all kinds of incriminating soundbites.

For an example of the kind of dance imitated by Victorian Burlesque girls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nd5NLbUu44

Loose: A History of Sex and Vice is produced and hosted by Quinn Laroux. If you would like to get in touch you can find her at @quinnlarouxdrag and at quinnlarouxdrag@gmail.com

Support for Loose comes from listeners like you on patreon. If you would like to support Loose, you can at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Sources for this weeks episode include but are not limited to :

Storyville, New Orleans by Al Rose

Empire of Sin by Gary Krist

Guidebooks to Sin by Pamela Arseaneaux

Desiring Arabs by Joseph A Massad

Pleasure Bound by Deborah Lutz

The Baby Dolls Mar 24, 2020

Which came first the baby or the baby? A lengthy discussion about the Baby Dolls, a Mardi Gras tradition started by black sex workers in the Storyville Era with special guest Camille Roane, New Orleans based Comedian and woman about town (@camiloren).

You can get in touch with Quinn at @quinnlarouxdrag or through email at quinnlarouxdrag@gmail.com

Support for Loose comes from listeners like you. You can support Loose on Patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Music for this week’s episode was Taste of New Orleans by Golden Age Radio provided through Epidemic Sound.

Sources for this episode include but were not limited to:

The “Baby Dolls” Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition by Kim Marie Vaz

https://www.npr.org/2013/02/16/172165237/the-baby-dolls-of-mardi-gras-a-fun-tradition-with-a-serious-side

Lulu White and Willie Piazza Mar 17, 2020

Lies, drama, and mostly, more lies. This week’s episode profiles Lulu White’s more… complicated behavior over her time reigning as the Diamond Queen of New Orleans’ red light district Storyville.

My special guest this week is Billie Jean, @billiexojean

Get in touch with me @quinnlarouxdrag or quinnlarouxdrag@gmail.com

My Patreon is patreon.com/loosepodcast

Music for this weeks episode is provided through Epidemic Sound. This week’s song is Strolling Through Town by Ofelia Moore

Sources for this weeks episode include but are not limited to:

Spectacular Wickedness:Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville New Orleans by Emily Epstein Landeau

The Great Southern Babylon by Alecia P. Long

Storyville, New Orleans by Al Rose

For a more general overview of the creation of the district, I recommend Empire of Sin by Gary Krist

The Icebox: Post-Reconstruction Sex Work Mar 10, 2020

Abandon yourself to the absolute limits of obscenity. Sex murders, early clubs, and a woman who is paid literally to act bored while sleeping with men. We’ll survey clubs and saloons from the roughly forty years following the Civil War and discuss #SHEroes like Kate Townsend, Gertie Livingston, Josephine Icebox, the women of Smoky Row, and so much more

Note: I forgot to mention the Great Southern Babylon as a major source for this week’s episode.

Music for this weeks episode was Ragtime Afternoons by Rich in Rags available through Epidemic Sound.

Get in touch with me @quinnlarouxdrag or through quinnlarouxdrag@gmail.com

If you would like to gain access to extra episodes and support the podcast, I am on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast

Resources used in today’s episode include but are not limited to:

The Great Southern Babylon by Alecia P Long (Directly quoted in the episode)

The Accident of Color by Danile Brook

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

Storyville, New Orleans by Al Rose

The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee

America for Americans by Erika Lee

More info and photos can be found at:

http://www.storyvilledistrictnola.com/kate_townsend.html

More info on use of word fat (It’ll come up a lot in more episodes in the future)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-women-on-why-they-are-reclaiming-the-word-fat_b_57eec8d0e4b0972364deb2e4

Chamber Pots and Bread Riots Mar 03, 2020

Let's get this bread. Today's episode takes a deeper look at sex and sex work during the civil war. We're talking General Order No 28, sex boats, bread riots, and really weird ideas about masturbation.

Get in touch with Quinn @quinnlarouxdrag or at quinnlarouxdrag@gmail.com

Patreon is patreon.com/loosepodcast

Music for today’s episode provided through Epidemic Sound and include:

"The Star Spangled Banner (Marching Band Traditional)" Epidemic Sound

"The Joyous and the Sad" by Nico Dickens

Sources used in today's episode's research include but are not limited to:

Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality Judith Giesberg

An Evening with Venus: Prostitution during the American Civil War John Gaines

A History of American in Ten Strikes Eric Loomis

Storyville, New Orleans Al Rose

“(Mis)Remembering General Order No. 28”, Occupied Women Alciea P Long

The American Slave Coast Constance and Ned Sublette

The Great Southern Babylon Alicea P Long

Revolt Against Chivalry Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Wiggling Insultingly and Other Revolutionary Acts Feb 18, 2020

The Lorette Laws and the coalition of sex workers and their allies who beat them back in 1859. Victorian ideas, early Mardi Gras, and a rebellious sex worker protest on the middle of Canal Street. In part one we’ll dive into why the sex workers were able to have a booming economy, the laws that targeted them, and the court case they defeated, ending with the sex workers immediately reclaiming Mardi Gras back from the terrible white men. In part two, I review modern Mardi Gras parades, probably start some drama, and end with a discussion about who is allowed to be assumed as an artist. Loose is an independent podcast hosted and clumsily produced by Quinn Laroux @quinnlarouxdrag The website is loosepodcast.com and the patreon is at patreon.com/loosepodcast Pleasure Bound by Deborah Lutz Unmentionable by Therse Oneill Sultry Climates by Ian Littlewood Sex and the Civil War Judith Giesberg Lords of Misrule by James Gill An Evening with Venus by John Gaines Love in the Time of Victoria by Fracoise Barret-Durocq The “Baby Dolls” by Kim Marie Vaz The Trails of Nina McCall by Scott Stern Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women by Judith Schafer Neworleanshistorical.org Reason for the local controversy I mentioned: https://www.ambushmag.com/rawhide-phoenix-an-investigation/

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