We talk a lot about sex in religious spaces, mostly to police it. But we don’t talk about pleasure.
We definitely don’t talk about the gift of an orgasm. Unless we’re saying “oh God” in the middle of one… and even then, we’re not supposed to mean it.
In my latest piece, “Is the O in God for Orgasm?”, I write about what led me to give up my vibrator, not for shame, but for alignment. It’s about faith, divorce, desire, and what it means to choose celibacy without losing yourself.
Read the full piece on Substack.