297 | Learning as Self Love: Yeh Ka-ching on Woo

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.

 

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

 

📈 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

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