Season 2 of The Oldest Profession Podcast was a collaboration between host, Kaytlin Bailey, and Producer & Editor, Justine T. Mclellan, who brought an academic background and interest in culture change work to create a new tone for the show. Listeners can expect a thoroughly researched conversational monologue organized around a different old pro from history in each episode.

Kaytlin Bailey — Host

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Justine T. McLellan — Producer & Audio Engineer

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Leah Moon — Website Developer & Designer

Lou Graham

Lou Graham

Madam Lou Graham was so rich that she served as an alternative to banks, giving loans to business propositions deemed too risky by bankers.

Cardi B

Cardi B

The most famous sex worker of today’s music industry, Cardi B unabashedly flaunts her past as a stripper in her songs, videos, and social media.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Best known for his paintings of the moulin rouge, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was also a john who (literally) lived in brothels.

Ching Shih

Ching Shih

Ching Shih went from working as a full service sex worker to becoming the one of the most successful pirate captains in the history of the world.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe’s undeniable charisma, comedic genius, and iconic sensuality enchant and resonate with old pros and civilians alike.

Tlazōlteōtl

Tlazōlteōtl

Mesoamerican Goddess, Tlazōlteōtl, symbolically pardoned her followers’ sin in a never ending circle of life, sex, and death.

Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Wuornos

Infamous misandrist and queer icon Aileen Wuornos killed seven men while working as a hitch hiking sex worker in Florida.

Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels is an incredible self made woman and sex worker who had the audacity to tell her own story.

Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

Unbeknownst to most, six years before writing and starring in Rocky, Sylvester Stallone was the lead in a soft core porn film.

Bettie Page

Bettie Page

Bettie Page, iconic pin-up and bondage model of the 20th century, had an on-and-off again relationship with Evangelical Christianity.

Linda Lovelace and Andrea Dworkin

Linda Lovelace and Andrea Dworkin

Powerhouses of the “Porn Wars”; Linda Lovelace (star of Deep Throat) who later in life joined Andrea Dworkin in the campaign against porn.

Congressional Election Blues

Congressional Election Blues

In this special episode, Kaytlin talks about losing the NY12 Democratic Primary and next steps in the fight for sex worker rights.

Julie D’Aubigny

Julie D’Aubigny

In 17th century France, Julie D’Aubigny seduced aristocratic men and women, did some grave robbing, and burned a nunnery. A bisexual legend.

Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee

Special guest Jacq the Stripper joins Kaytlin Bailey to talk about American icon and patron saint of strippers, Gypsy Rose Lee.

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas

Ceyenne Doroshow co-hosts a discussion of the life and work of an unrepentant hustler, author, and attempted murderer, Valerie Solanas.