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Hosted by Ali Weiss · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 43 episodes
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Tales of Taboo investigates, and celebrates, the stories we’re taught to keep quiet. Host Ali Weiss collects raw, honest, sometimes shocking anonymous confessions from her global audience and interviews public figures willing to speak candidly about their unconventional lives. Provocative, funny, and deeply empathetic, Tales of Taboo asks why we’re all so afraid to be different — and what might happen if we weren’t. Submit your own confession at confessions@aliweissworld.com, or follow Ali on Instagram & TikTok @aliweissworld.
Ali Weiss hosts Tales of Taboo, a society show with 43 episodes published.
Feel like blowing up your life? You’ve come to the right place. This week’s confessors range in age from 28 to 51 and reside in New York City, Los Angeles, Charlotte, San Diego, San Francisco, London, and the Netherlands
Kseniya Sovenko ( @ksenyeah ) is a former nationally ranked competitive ballroom dancer, writer, and the founder of NYC Rave Girls ( @nyc.rave.girls ). After being diagnosed with HPV, Kseniya discovered she had high-
Chelsea G. Summers is the author of one of my all-time favorite novels, A Certain Hunger . The story follows a sexy, successful, and sociopathic middle aged food critic as she travels around the world sleeping with, murd
It took me 10 years to graduate college. I mean, school sucks — when you’re a teenager, at least. It feels very different as an adult who actually chooses to be there. This week’s global confessors (8:55) reside in South
Colette Pervette is a professional Dominatrix, writer, and PhD in Education from UC Berkeley. A self-proclaimed “Educatrix,” she’s also the founder of MistressClass : an online course merging psychology-centric lectures
Would moving home with your parents be a dream or a nightmare? Depends on which confessor you ask. This week’s stories (11:38) come from people between the ages of 31 to 45 residing throughout New York, California, and O
I absolutely believe in marriage, but I also believe that marriage is inaccurately marketed as a one-stop solution for all of life’s problems. It’s no wonder why, as of 2024, about 43% of American marriages are said to e
I recently broke up with my boyfriend. Though extremely painful, I knew it was the correct decision - but I also wondered in my lower moments if, at 31, I was “too old” to start over again. I’ve never looked or felt bett
Affairs are by no means good or fair, but they rarely have malicious intent. More often, they’re about quelling the ways adult life can be lonely and disappointing. This week’s lustful anonymous confessors began their af
The Fashion episode was such a hit that I decided to revamp and re-release another set of industry-related confessions. With casting help from DeuxMoi, we're coming out from behind the scenes and exploring life in front
Which famous designer refused to pay for $100,000 worth of samples? What major eyewear company has a Chief Financial Officer with no credentials besides being a party magician? Where does being over a size 6 and an A cup
What do you think of when you think bisexuality? Promiscuous behavior? Polyamory? Lying, cheating spouses? Midlife crises? Burning Man? Or maybe you think of…nothing: perhaps the biggest misconception is that middle-of-t
I open this week's episode with my own candid confessions about the challenges of my former long-distance relationship, and how that experience + watching 90 Day Fiance led me to become uncharacteristically judgmental of
Couples with large age gaps can cause polarizing reactions. On the one hand, age is a number and love is love - it knows no bounds or rules. Should one be lucky enough to find it, it’s always worth diving into head first
Ethical Non-Monogamy and Polyamory are becoming increasingly popular relationship structures (or, at least, are now more commonly discussed), but they're controversial and deeply misunderstood. Most people see ENM as glo
Exercise gives many of us a sense of control, stability, and discipline. Boutique fitness, with its fancy methodologies and curated lights, scents, and sounds, capitalizes on another, more elusive (and highly monetizable
$10,000 bottles of wine! 15 hour workdays! All-night cocaine benders! Psychotic head chefs! It's Season 4 of Tales of Taboo! This week, we're exploring the high-octane world of high-end dining: the kinds of establishment
There’s a narrative jammed down our throats year after year, incessantly, everywhere we go, that the holidays are supposed to be “the most wonderful time." Ironically, such a narrative often ends up reminding us (or forc
What do you think of when you hear 'sex club'? Predatory men? Deviant behavior? An unhinged, unsanitary, Ancient Roman-style orgy? I would liken it more to highly participatory immersive theatre - a contained place to be
What do you think of when you think ‘porn star’? Party girls with f*cked-up childhoods? Sexual trauma? Misogyny and abuse? This week’s contributors, both anonymous and on-the-record, dismantle those stereotypes HARD by c
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Tales of Taboo is hosted by Ali Weiss. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 43 episodes.
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