For years, bisexual comedian Margaret Cho has promoted sex positivity and LGBTQ visibility in media, unabashedly discussing sex in interviews and starring in numerous queer film projects.
But the Korean-American comedy queen is currently an executive producer of Mercy Mistress, an upcoming web-series that follows a queer Asian-American BDSM sex worker.
TV shows with positive, nuanced depictions of queer Asian sex workers are almost unheard of.
The series is based on a memoir by BDSM dominatrix and sex educator Yin Quan (who wrote and created the show). It follows “a queer, first-generation, Chinese-American professional and lifestyle dominatrix working in Manhattan,” according to IndieWire.com.
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Each episode in the beautifully shot series will show the mistress navigating her personal life while pushing her new client to fully integrate his kinky side into his dating life.
But it ain’t Fifty Shade of Grey.
“It’s not about some weird dude with a helicopter, you know? Those kinds of images don’t really ring true in my world of kink,” Cho told IndieWire. Cho grew up in the San Francisco queer kink and leather scenes.
“I think [‘Mercy Mistress’] is actually very true to the lifestyle and what people really do,” Cho said, “which is much sexier, and a lot more fun, and much more relatable and interesting.”
Quan, the show’s creator, was tired of seeing sex workers portrayed as glamorous “happy hookers” with hearts of gold or hard-bitten, amoral low-lifes. Asian sex workers in particular are often depicted as exotic, submissive sex-slaves with no agency of their own — Mercy Mistress could change all that.
You can watch the first episode below. The full series will premiere on January 7, 2019.
iamru2
Ugh I’ll pass on this one!
Tony1129
Liar!! You know you will watch to get new ideas.
Donston
It’s kind of hard to tell if most people want “queer” to mean a pan-sexual with no real sense of gender and who doesn’t have any particular sexual/romantic/relationship leanings and fulfillment, or as a general term for not being inherently 100% heterosexual and/or feeling 100% cis gender, or as just another synonym for “gay”, or as a synonym for “questioning”. Like all these other identities it seems to have different interpretations depending on the scene and the person you ask.
I do like Margaret Cho, though I’m not as into her as I was in my teens. However, based on the description and preview it seems to be another “queer” story that speaks more from a hetero-leaning and hetero-romantic perspective and looks to re-establish the beauty and diversity of cis hetero relationships. People don’t seem to get and be okay with there being many men and women who “gay”, primarily having relationships with and having general fulfillment towards their same gender but who still maintain “queer lifestyles”. Those stories have yet to be told. It seems many are actively squeezing the gay-ness out of “queer”.
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mz.sam
Oh puhleezz-z-z-z….NEXT!
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Yooper
“TV shows with positive, nuanced depictions of queer Asian sex workers are almost unheard of.” Of course, this is what has been missing in my life. WTF, next.
Xzamilloh
Maybe next time release this at the height of the 50 Shades like True Blood did with the Twilight crap. This doesn’t even look enticing.
HereIAm
How could anyone have so little self respect as to debase themselves by these dehumanizing sexual practices? It’s hard not to laugh at the stupid and perverse stuff these people are into. What is wrong with these people’s brain?
Kangol
Weren’t you the same one defending a creepy man who’d taken sexual advantage of poor young homeless men? Talk about “dehumanizing sexual practices”! And yes, you did do that a few weeks ago on a story on here. Girl, please!
Donston
Well, a lot of seemingly “normal” people are into some kinks and paraphilias. It’s not all people walking around in ass-less chaps and pretentious hairstyles who are willing to get fisted by everyone. But it seems some people (particularly certain people who have experienced sexual traumas) have a difficult time experiences arousal or persistent sexual pleasure without some type of extreme or subversive or painful aspect to the sexual act. Having a constantly contradictory orientation and sense of gender also seems to be a bit of trigger. Having some megalomaniac instincts can be a trigger. Some guys are straight/heterosexual/hetero-leaning but can only get off if they feel like female during sexual encounters. Therefore, their sexual lives tend to be more kinky. Some guys are more sexual and romantic interests in men but have an easier time getting aroused for women and/or to hetero sex and therefore indulge a lot of kink play with females. Some people don’t really have any value in themselves beyond their sexuality and sex appeal, and therefore are likely to get kinkier and kinkier to maintain that appeal and ability to sexually please others. There’s a lot of stuff going on out here and a lot of different reasons why people indulge whatever they indulge.
I was sorta on the “queer kink” scene for a couple years in my early twenties. But some stuff the people I hung out with wanted to indulge was just too extreme for me. While my romantic and relationship instincts and passions were too same-sex leaning (that scene can be anti same-sex relationships and kind of anti relationships in general). And I just got bored with being a hoe.
HereIAm
Donston, I just don’t understand the allure of all these kinky stuff. They appeal to the dark side of the human nature and does nothing to elevate our divinity. If your observation about people drawn to the kinky practices has any validity at all, then the right thing to do is for these mentally unbalanced individuals to purge their dark desires through therapy and prayer.
Donston
There are a lot of people who can use some therapy and self-reflection out here. But ultimately, if you’re not hurting anyone then it’s no big deal. It seems people who see kink-ness as a “lifestyle” and dedicate a significant portion of their being to it rather than merely looking towards it for an occasional sexual dalliance are the ones who can be emotionally, romantically, socially stunted by it and are controlled by it.
Tony1129
Because that’s what they are into and their clients. They get paid, most do shit for free.
I would say good for them, it’s a big business and there seems to be a need for it.
Good Dog
HereIAm, I don’t see the allure of all this divinity stuff. It appeals to the dark desires of human nature that feels that it is separate and somehow elevated from the natural world which we are all a part of and leads to arrogance and condemnation to those who do not share those views.
The right thing to do is for these mentally unbalanced individuals to purge their dark desires through sensuality and eroticism.
((see how pretentious and haughty I sounded; yeah, that’s you. Don’t like it? Cool you’re not kinky keep moving))
QueerTruth
Who is the audience? Doesn’t seem like it’s for gay men.
Tony1129
Why does it have to be specifically for gay men? Why not anyone who may show interest?
QueerTruth
Tony1129 – I never said it had to be. That was my question. DUH….