You may know that November has been given a knickname by the internet, or, well, several knicknames all based around the same basic theme. First it was No-Shave November, then No Nut November, and honestly, if you have to give something up for a month leading into the winter holidays, I’m ok with shaving being on the list. Unless I have a hot date… Anyway, Whore School kicked off November by talking a bit about tease and denial, and how a little ‘NO’ can be good for you! From there we got deep into the pleasure, personalities, furries, and sissies. Let’s look at November’s wrap up!

Denial Is Good For You

Listen to “WS 471 Denial And Distress” on Spreaker.

I started off November on Whore School with a discussion about how denial can increase your distress tolerance. Of course, I did have to tell you what your distress tolerance is, first. You know me, I love to define some terms to make sure we’re all on the same page! Your ‘distress tolerance’ is your ability to maintain equanimity in stressful or distressing situations. By practicing your skills in a lower stakes situation you can build up the ability to weather all sorts of stressful situations. That’s how a little orgasm denial is good: it’s not going to harm you, you’ll get to cum really hard later, and it can make it easier for you to maintain your equilibrium in other, even more stressful situations.

Hedonism Is Also Good For You

After I spent so much time reminding everyone that a little denial is good for you, and why, I flipped the script the next week and endorsed Hedonism. The pursuit of pleasure can be wildly rebellious given how deeply anti-pleasure our firmly founded on Puritan ideals society is. Rebel, defy the powers that want you overworked and stressed, and masturbate! Do something nice for yourself, like indulging in a long hot bubble bath, eating delicious foods, and, yes, fucking. A lot. Screw you John Calvin!

Is The MBTI Worth Your Time?

Like a lot of things in life, personality tests are a big business that has been utilized to divide and separate us from one another, and to categorically deny some folks status and power. Those “type A” personalities so prized by Wall Street can be real a-holes, after all, and everyone who’s less driven is seen as less useful in a capitalist system. Personality testing can be a big money making scam, but, it can also help individuals understand ourselves better. Like a lot of the modern world, there is no ethical consumption and yet we still need to buy groceries and delve into our own inner worlds. If a personality test helps you, it helps, and therefore is worthwhile. Should you hang your entire self worth on the results? Probably not. It’s complicated!

Furries! Because Why Not

One of the more fun topics covered in November was all about Furries, Futa, and MORE. And let me tell you, that ‘more’ covered a lot of ground. This episode introduced the idea of anthropomorphized character roleplay, a Japanese term for intersex people that has taken over the porn, I mean, the internet, and Supernatural fanfic. You should go listen to it to get the full range.

Speaking of Complicated Things: Gender

The final live podcast for November on Whore School was all about Gender, and how Sissies make things complicated as fuck. Your gender is not located in your pants, your body shape, your genetics, or in your hormone levels. Your Gender is in how you identify yourself, and expressed by how you act in the world. It can be deeply complicated by societal gender roles, or, your cultures ideas about what a “man” or “woman” is supposed to act like. So along come Sissies, who may be men, or women, or non-binary, but they enjoy the Sissy aesthetic and possibly also some level of erotic humiliation, thereby crossing the ‘way you act’ bar for ‘how a man/woman is meant to act’. Fucking complicated! There’s a reason Whore School talks about this subject a lot.

November Wrap Up for Whore School

There you have it! November was a busy month for most of us, in the US we had Thanksgiving and the holiday shopping season got kicked off on Black Friday. We worked, ate good food, and enjoyed a live podcast every Sunday evening from 11 pm Eastern to midnight. Whore School covered a wide range of topics, and hopefully you learned something. Remember: practicing a little denial in order to increase your distress tolerance is good, indulge in some hedonism, take a personality test but don’t rely on it too much, and gender is complicated as fuck, so don’t worry if you’re confused by it.

Stick around for December, and learn even more fun and interesting things all month long! We’re staring with woodworking and BDSM Play Furniture!

Your Whore School Host, Harper