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DC Talk. Jennifer Knapp. Joshua Harris. These are the “celebrities” of purity culture, an American movement of shame-based abstinence-only education that peaked from the mid-90’s to the early 2000’s that swept across the nation . . . and the Disney Channel. Purity rings were championed by child-celebrities like Brittany Spears, the Jonas Brothers, and Miley Cyrus before they abandoned their family-friendly reputation for more honest, adult sexually repressed ones.

Join me to investigate the origins of purity culture beginning in Nashville, TN; home of the Southern Baptist Convention and True Love Waits, the institution behind the purity movement. With my podcast buddy Dr. Ryan Clark, we interview many voices across the purity culture spectrum, from known supporters from the peak of the purity movement to new rising voices of today speaking against it; a conversation that unexpectedly threatens the podcast!

During a dinner with a friend at a Filipino restaurant in Queens, New York; I experienced a spiritual awakening that changed the trajectory of my life, a phenomenon known as a Kundalini Awakening, a fierce opening physiologically, spiritually, and may I also say SEXUALLY. It was like the scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally when Meg Ryan feigns an orgasm at Katz Deli, but with filipinos and chicken adobo. Something about me was different. My clinical fear of sex and women was gone, but the physiological residue of trauma remained. This is how my journey into Tantra began resulting to a 5-year apprenticeship and a collaboration with my mentor Dr. Kristina Kincaid to host Tantra Science workshops.Join me and my mentor Dr. Kristina Kincaid; an anthropologist, theologian, healer who also has a self-shot healing journey where she captured her first Kundalini Awakening at a Mayan Temple; the film artifact I needed to see to contextualize my own experience and transformation.

When a holiday animated movie I was developing for over 10 years is stolen by a major studio, an unfamiliar emotion that I have suppressed my entire life sets in — ANGER. I was angry at myself, at the industry, and at God. So I decided to use my camera for the one thing I thought I would never use it for — sexuality. I posted an ad on Craigslist to film a series of interviews to confront this taboo subject. I wanted to face my fears once and for all with a camera, and really, I didn’t think about what would happen after. Little did I know that a lesbian pornstar and her ingenue lover would be my first and only subjects. What started off as an interview became so much more, and I experienced God. What does a theologian do when he experiences something beyond his knowing, his comfort, and his bandwidth? He worships. By picking up my camera, I found my voice. Follow my camera as I transition from being a former church camp purity pastor to an erotic content creator for sex education and healing.