About this episode
Philosophical musings on art and voyeurism through the lens—Yeh shares how his “lack of emotion” inspired a life of trying out different personae and his transition from street photography on the Las Vegas Strip to stepping into the world of survival sex workers. 📈 STATS | 33 heterosexual queer Chinese man, he/him pronouns, monogamous, freelance photographer, classics scholar, lifer, from Las Vegas, into: sex, sexuality, voyeurism, documenting sexual experiences, philosophy, nihilism. ⏰ TIME CODE 00:00 Documenting strangers’ sexualities and his personal academic reading habits 06:54 Noodling on narcissism and approaching every interaction as significant 09:37 Masking, social alienation, and exploring taboo 14:25 Why his masculine role models are the “cowboys of porn” and the different sides of his Self 18:30 Directing a dominatrix during a shoot and how his shame changes based on his active persona 21:23 Reflections on the social construction of taboo and becoming desensitized to what was once “forbidden” 26:21 Photography origins: surveillance-style photography, gonzo journalism, and erotica 30:38 Voyeuristic inspiration from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and learning as self love 35:25 Feeling disconnected and experiencing social intimacy through information exchanges 38:31 His analytical approach to human connection 44:28 Pinning down what excitement actually is and how learning is always in support of his actions 47:12 The secret to being a good voyeur and physiologically reactionary sexual attraction 51:21 Ultimate voyeurism dreams + hypocritical health, safety, and consent practices 54:35 Following assumptions and social scripts to achieve his desires 56:15 Big reactions to his art and being shunned for documenting subjects on the edge of society 59:32 Signaling shame and using context clues to assume peoples’ lines 1:02:23 Being ostracized by clowns for his provocative work 1:05:37 Approaching life with humor and why he likes being a "nice sociopath" 1:08:15 Desires informed by Greek classics and the sexiness of androgynous femininity 1:12:10 Putting on personae and his day-to-day asexuality 1:15:48 Preferring exercise to ejaculation and post-photography masturbation 1:18:29 How weightlifting leads him to easier arousal 1:20:21 Enjoying sensations of lips and softness on his balls 1:24:46 Discovering his queerness with the local puppy play coalition + his take on the Erotic and Eroticism 1:28:58 Turned on by extremes as a photographer and a hands-on dildo experience 1:32:27 An anonymous open-door fisting session and hiding in a makeshift gloryhole 1:35:22 The thrill of documenting unpredictable situations and his "cognitive basis for morality" 1:39:48 His most shocking stories and writing vignettes of each encounter 1:44:17 Dreams of sissy porn, capturing the feminine mystique on film, and leaving space for the unknown 1:48:46 Ideological lines, normalizing taboo desires, and why he wants to know what drives you 🤩 TOPICS | Academic voyeurism, alienation and intimacy, analytical arousal, androgynous femininity, anonymous encounters, artistic identity, asexual lifestyle, balls and softness sensations, body awareness, capturing taboo subjects, cognitive morality, consent culture, contextual desire, creative self-expression, desensitization to taboo, dildo exploration, directing dominatrix, documenting sexuality, erotic anthropology, erotic curiosity, erotic photography, erotica as art, exercising instead of ejaculation, extreme arousal, fisting session, following social scripts, forbidden desires, Greek philosophy and sexuality, hidden desires, hiding in a gloryhole, humor and self-perception, hypocrisy in sex culture, intellectual desire, intimate observation, learning as self-love, libido and lifting, masking and persona, masculine archetypes, moral philosophy, narcissism reflections, nice sociopath persona, nihilistic philosophy, observing human behavior, open-door encounters, performance of masculinity, philosophy of sex, physical reactions to arousal, physiological attraction, porn aesthetics, post-photography masturbation, provocative documentation, puppy play discovery, queer realization, reactionary desire, reality versus fantasy, rejection from peers, role of shame, romantic nihilism, sadomasochistic imagery, scholarly voyeurism, self-awareness through others, self-observation, self-perception in sexuality, sexual alienation, sexual curiosity, sexual philosophy, sexual surveillance, shame and exhibitionism, sissy porn fantasies, social construction of taboo, social desensitization, social intimacy, societal boundaries, soft dominance, spontaneous arousal, street photography evolution, taboo fascination, taboo psychology, voyeur fantasies, voyeurism and ethics, voyeurism through art, weightlifting and arousal, writing erotic vignettes. 🔥 PARTNERS | Make your world a sexier place—get a discount & support the pod! 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