Porn Star Confessions

Tales of Taboo

Ali Weiss

Society & Culture

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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 creating and participating in adult content that empowers them, provides them with bodily autonomy...and makes them very wealthy. We’ll hear from Marykate Moss (formerly Mackenzie, IG & Twitter: @marykate_moss), a Hustler covergirl whose videos have over 100 million views on PornHub; (19:03) a BBW performer using ‘body worship’ to re-frame how men see and treat fat bodies; (26:37) an erotic artist who took the plunge into porn during COVID (and became a master at online brand-building in the process); (35:22) Alice Callipyge (IG: alicecallipyge), a former teacher who dreamt of more income and a place to explore sexual fantasies; (46:34) and Amanda North (IG: amandanorthstar), a current sex therapy student with complicated feelings towards the adult industry she used to be a part of.

Whether mainstream power players or small independent creators, they all have equally valuable insight into relationships, fetishization, safety, wealth management, the path to sexual expression and liberation, and creating the self you’ve always wanted to be - online and off.

Marykate's OnlyFans: https://onlyfans.com/marykatemoss Alice's OnlyFans: https://onlyfans.com/adorable_alice Amanda's film "Moist": https://vimeo.com/ondemand/moist

~ 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	Eve
0:02.0	Eve Hello, my degenerate angels.
0:30.7	Welcome back to another episode of Tales of Taboo, your longtime favorite fast track train into the underworld. My name is Ali Weiss.
0:42.0	I'm a native New York performer, writer, and on-air host, known for my big eyebrows, big opinions,
0:49.8	and title as the reigning princess of taboo. Thanks to my insatiable love of any and all topics,
0:58.0	people, ideas, and experiences that for whatever reason are considered outside the bounds
1:04.6	of what is socially acceptable. This podcast is an exploration of elusive subcultures and the road less traveled and life on the wrong or misunderstood side of the tracks, so to speak, as told through anonymous confessions from our listeners who have actually lived through it. Tales of Taboo is not just meant to shock,
1:31.3	although I do absolutely j adore shocking all of you squares, but rather it's an exploration of
1:37.5	why we are afraid to be different and why certain people are seen as less human than others simply because of choices they make,
1:48.0	especially when those choices often deliver the most meaningful life lessons.
1:55.0	So I created Anonymous Confessions episodes.
1:58.2	That was like an incredible voice crack.
1:59.9	I feel like my balls just dropped on air.
2:01.9	What was I saying? Right. I created anonymous confessions episodes in the last two seasons about
2:08.5	escorts and nightclub bottle waitresses. Two controversial ways in which women are flipping gender power dynamics by consciously profiting off of their bodies
2:20.4	and their sexuality to incredibly successful degrees.
2:25.2	And this week, we're continuing that conversation through the lens of porn.
2:31.7	Like most other things in this world, the ethics of porn are very nuanced. It is truly
2:38.8	impossible to make one broad stroke statement about whether or not the industry is harmful
2:46.6	because there are so many different types of people who are working in it.
2:52.3	Like for every exploitative agent or manager, there is a production company with a strict
2:58.9	set of onset behavioral codes and who has their performer's best interests at heart.
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