HeyJaredTales of Taboo
Tales of Taboo is a collection of ANONYMOUS confessions investigating, and celebrating, what happens behind closed doors. Ali Weiss dissolves the boundaries that traditionally exist between host and audience by creating episodes around her listeners' unique perspectives.
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- Aug 25, 2026
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Pain, Pleasure, Power (feat. Dominatrix Vea Vesper) (opens the original)
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Vea Vesper is a professional Dominatrix who “creates safe spaces to play dangerous games.” She was the first woman in Russia to publicly come out as a Dom, blazing a trail for sex workers on social media in her home country. We dive deep into sex and dating culture in Russia vs America (hello Russian Hooker trope!); what it really means to be a “good girl” and why intimidating women get further in life; how to “make the Universe your Mistress”; and all the ways in which BDSM can teach us about h
Big Life Change Confessions (opens the original)
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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. Each of them took enormous personal, professional, or physical risks in pursuit of a freer and more authentic life. We hear from an athletic trainer who elected to amputate half his leg; a high-end drug dealer turned stay-at-home mom; a sex worker turned corporate project manag
Japanese HPV Therapy (feat. Kseniya Sovenko of NYC Rave Girls) (opens the original)
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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-grade cervical dysplasia (CIN3), an advanced type of precancerous cells. She was offered only one option for treatment, called a LEEP - or Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure - but read many reports that the procedure offered inconsistent results and bad side effects. So, in
"Late" Marriage & Motherhood Confessions (opens the original)
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What the f*ck is a " timeline ?" This week’s global confessors (16:35) reside in England, Spain, California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Each got married — and in some cases had children — “late,” between the ages of 34 and 41. We hear from former party girls adjusting to quieter lives after decades of late nights and globe-trotting; a woman who moved abroad with her girlfriend before returning to the States in search of a heteronormative relationship; a queer woman married to a quee
Life Lessons From A Cannibal [Author] (feat. Chelsea G. Summers) (opens the original)
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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, murdering, and then EATING men who have wronged her. Even more iconic than the book is Chelsea herself — a former stripper, sex writer, wine writer, and academic who self-identifies as having been a “fuckup” in her 20s and 30s before going to grad school in her 40s and writing her fi
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