Taboo Trades

About Taboo Trades

A podcast about things we aren’t supposed to trade . . . But do anyway

Publisher

Kimberly D Krawiec

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Aug 2020

Latest episode

7 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

72 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Feb 2026

   Taboo Patents with Andrew Gilden & Sarah Rajec

   My guests today are Andrew Gilden, Southwestern Law School, and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, William & Mary Law School. They join me today to discuss their recent paper, Patenting the Taboo: Sex, Drugs, and Abortion, recently published in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. It’s a really fun article that looks at patent applications in three taboo spaces: sexual pleasure, illicit drugs, and abortion technologies. Some of the themes are very similar to ones Andrew Jennings and I highlight...

2. 

   13 Dec 2025

   Season 6 Sign Off

   My student co-hosts sign off, bringing Season 6 to an official close. Never fear, I'll be back throughout 2026 with exciting bonus episodes.

3. 

   11 Dec 2025

   Eggonomics with Diane Tober

   My guest today is Diane Tober, an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Department of Anthropology and Institute for Social Science Research. She is a medical anthropologist with a focus on biocultural aspects of health, gender and sexuality, the commodification of the body, science and technology studies, bioethics, and social and reproductive justice. She has been conducting research exploring egg donors’ decisions and experiences within the global market for human eggs since 201...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

52

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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