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The Hello, bonjour, chow, and how you doing, ladies and gentlemen, and everyone who identifies as neither.

My name is Ali Weiss and welcome back to another episode of Tales of Taboo.

This show is an investigation into and celebration of what happens behind closed doors,

and it focuses not on me, but around your stories, wants and needs.

Today, I have a very special guest with me, blonde bombshell, master nogroni maker, comedy enthusiast,

and my dear friend Vivian Cole.

Vivian also happens to be a very successful and well-known independent escort.

Say hi, Viv.

Hi.

Everyone do a polite PGA clap for Viv.

That was honestly too hard to be a polite PGA clap.

For starters, is that how you like to identify yourself professionally as an escort?

Because I know some women identify as providers or companions.

Is there a difference between all of those terms?

I personally prefer escort, but depending on who I'm speaking to and whether or not,

I think that they will understand what that word means.

I think sex worker sounds kind of gross, like you're mopping up semen or something.

You work in a peep show.

Yeah, it's like, it sounds like you're in a hazmat suit.

Like, I don't know about it.

So, but, like, the other day I was getting a facial and the woman asked what I did and I said I'm a sex worker because I figured she wouldn't know what an escort was necessarily.

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