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The Hello, hello, hello, my little degenerate angels. Welcome back to another dark, dirty, dangerous week

inside the confessions booth. My name is Ali Weiss, for those of you who are new here, and this is

Tales of Taboo, an investigation into and celebration of what happens behind closed doors.

So each week, I invite my audience and their friends and their friends of friends to share

stories about their various out-of-the-ordinary

or downright socially unacceptable life experiences, all behind the shield of complete anonymity.

So the result is somewhere between daytime television, a therapy session, and like an expensive,

experimental lobotomy in the mountains of Switzerland. And truthfully, it all gives me more joy

than I can possibly begin to describe. But let's get into it. This week, bouncing off last week's Q&A with famous escort Vivian

Cole, we are now talking about and two sugar babies. I'm sure many of you have heard of the

website seeking arrangements.

And if you haven't, the site advertises itself as a place where, quote, beautiful, successful

people fuel mutually beneficial relationships.

So in other words, it matches wealthy men with young women who are willing to exchange

physical and or emotional intimacy for pay, but don't necessarily identify as sex workers.

Instead, they're real girls, if you will. Students, artists, budding entrepreneurs, mentorship is listed as a search

filter on the site right next to luxury lifestyle and discretion. So you can get an idea of how that

works. But that said, plenty of sex workers do also use the site. And what

fascinates me about this dynamic is that gray area. In some cases, there might be actual

girlfriends and boyfriends with rules and regulations, or they might be escorts and Johns, just like without the official

title of those things and connotation. And the core of what I wanted to investigate this week

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