Sex Club Confessions

Tales of Taboo

Ali Weiss

Society & Culture

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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 become a different person for the night, or the person you secretly wish you could be. With a definitive start and end and (often) a price tag, the transactional element allows for very real physical, emotional, even spiritual experiences, with less real-life consequences.

This week, we hear from both participants AND performers at sex clubs and fetish parties in Australia, Berlin, New York City, Spain, and the UK - including myself! To kick us off, I share my own Tales of Taboo about the uniquely safe space they offered me for self-discovery at an insecure period of my sexual life. (I discuss this more in-depth on last season's bisexuality episode, too.) Then, our anonymous contributors regale us with stories of fabled clubs like Berghain, Haven, House of Love, Kit Kat Club, NSFW, Playscape, Skirt Club, SNCTM, Torture Garden, and Wonderland.

Their experiences range from The Good, like niche fantasies coming to life in Eyes Wide Shut-esque settings, sleeping with famous soccer players, and exploring the kinky, adventurous possibilities that exist within environments placing consent front and center...to The Bad, like getting stuck in the middle of circle j*rks or feeling lesser-than as BIPOC, queer and alternative-presenting people...and The Complicated, like being fetishized as a pregnant woman, developing body dysmorphia as a Dominatrix, and getting stuck in the middle of an incestuous glory hole threesome at a gay sauna!

Our contributors also have fascinating insight into monogamy, the nature of jealousy and cheating, and what it really requires to achieve sexual liberation. For more information about V, the fire performer confessor at 33:08, visit https://www.thehivefire.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/Thehivefire. Her business is the world's first all-female fire breathing collective!

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].

Transcript

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0:00.0	Eve. Before I even introduce the podcast or myself, I have a very important message. No, it's not an ad. It's a plea with any family members or family friends over the age of 40 who have children
0:22.8	and are more of an authority or a family figure to me than a friend to please not listen to this
0:28.4	episode, especially if you are my parents. Mom and dad, love you, couldn't do anything without you,
0:34.0	but please turn this all the way off. I respect that y'all want to support my
0:41.2	work and be involved with every facet of my life, but I also really respect being able to sit at a
0:47.2	dinner table and look each other in the eyes. So may I recommend, or rather insist upon the escort or sugar baby or porn star confessions
0:58.2	episodes instead?
1:00.8	Music Okay, now that that's out of the way, hello, hello, hello, my degenerate angels,
1:26.6	and welcome back to Tales of Taboo.
1:30.4	With respect to those who have decided to work their way through this season backwards,
1:35.1	got to love a rebel, or who are joining us for the very first time,
1:39.8	thanks to the sizzling subject matter.
1:41.9	My name is Ali Weiss.
1:43.7	I am a native New York performer,
1:46.4	writer, an on-air host known for my big eyebrows, big opinions, and self-proclaimed title as the reigning
1:55.4	princess of taboo, which is thanks to my insatiable love of any and all topics, people, ideas, and experiences
2:03.1	that, for whatever reason, are outside the bounds of what is considered socially acceptable.
2:10.6	And this podcast is unlike anything else in the space, because stories about said taboo experiences
2:16.2	are told through anonymous confessions from our listeners
2:20.2	around the world who've actually lived through them.
2:23.8	And the reason I am desperate to divert family and family friends away from today's episode
2:29.7	is because I have also decided for the sake of context and relating to and engaging my audience,
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