Bisexuality Confessions

Tales of Taboo

Ali Weiss

Society & Culture

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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-the-spectrum sexual orientation doesn’t really exist. Au contraire, I believe that we’re ALL a little gay - some of us have just chosen, or found the freedom, to explore it.

In honor of Bisexuality Awareness Week, I decided to revamp and re-release this legendary episode from season 3. After my own on-the-record confessions (sorry mom & dad), our (VERY NSFW) anonymous contributors recount discovering their sexuality in a myriad of ways, like hooking up with their staff, rendezvouses with strangers from Grindr, or deep in the trenches of Berlin nightlife. We also hear tidbits about the LA orthodox Jewish gay community - so cool - and Skirt Club, a now-infamous, all-female sex party specifically for bicurious women around the globe. Bisexuality doesn’t mean hypersexuality, though: for every story involving polyamory or threesomes, there’s one about choosing the comfort of a committed heterosexual relationship and wondering if it’ll be stifling in the long run.

While some contributors deeply wish for acceptance from the LGBTQ community, others don’t feel the need to ‘prove themselves’. What they can all agree upon, however, is that bi-erasure and judgment - and a subsequent lack of identity - is real. As one of them so aptly said: “Hell is other people. Not because they inherently suck, but because their judgments rule how we act.”

Tales of Taboo is produced and narrated by Ali Weiss. Follow Ali on Instagram & TikTok @aliweissworld. Audio production by Isabel McMahon & WTF Media. Theme song by Chris Stathopolous. Cover photo by Erika Flynn. Cover art by Kristen Montenegro. GOT A SECRET TO GET OFF YOUR CHEST? Share your own confession - or thoughts and feedback - at [email protected].

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0:00.0	I'm Ali Weiss and I'm obsessed with the people, ideas, and experiences that break the rules, beat the odds, or are considered socially unacceptable.
0:28.9	And this is season four of Tales of Taboo. Each week, I gather anonymous confessions from my listeners around the world who've existed in elusive subcultures,
0:41.5	ventured down the road less traveled, made serious mistakes, and achieved extraordinary victories.
0:48.3	Some of them call my hotline and others will send written stories for me to read.
0:53.2	These confessions are raw, they're honest,
0:56.1	they're even downright shocking sometimes,
0:58.7	but they always deliver the most incredible life lessons
1:02.9	and encourage us to consider why we're all so afraid to be different.
1:08.2	In honor of Bisexuality Awareness Week, I've decided to revamp and re-release this
1:14.3	episode about bisexuality from season three, starting with my own No Holds Barred on the record
1:21.5	confession. Let's get into it. I found myself sexually attracted to women starting in high school. Not in the same way
1:31.3	I've always been attracted to men, which is the all-consuming infatuation of a crush or fantasies
1:38.8	of romance, saying I love you, long-term domestic happiness, etc cetera, et cetera. But I knew that there was a
1:47.3	magnetic pull there and I still remember exactly who those girls were. And I still remember how
1:54.6	madly in love I was with my high school boyfriend too. At the time, I knew plenty of gay men and a select few lesbians, but no one who was just
2:05.8	exploring with the same sex. And even though I grew up in New York City, opportunities to experiment,
2:13.7	and more importantly, to experiment with the types of people I felt physically attracted to
2:19.3	were actually very slim.
2:22.4	I had friends propositioned me for threesomes with them and their boyfriends, but I didn't
2:27.4	want to risk screwing up any of the relationships in that dynamic, so I said no.
2:32.8	I started going to gay clubs to party when I was around 16 and have been dozens, if not
2:38.5	hundreds of times since, but I always found them intimidating to assert myself in for any
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