A Little Bit Culty19 Maj 2025

Purity Culture & Sex Shame: Healing with the Sexvangelicals

Can religion ruin your sex life? This week on A Little Bit Culty, Sarah and Nippy are joined by psychotherapists and certified sex therapists Jeremiah Gibson and Julia Postema—co-hosts of the podcast Sexvangelicals: The Sex Education the Church Didn’t Want You to Have.

Together, they explore how religion, especially purity culture and fundamentalist gender roles, can cause lasting damage to relationships and sexual well-being. From internalized shame to rigid scripts about gender and sex, Jeremiah and Julia explain how high-control religious environments affect intimacy long after someone leaves the faith.

They also discuss the complexities of deconstructing religion as a couple, the importance of finding shared values, and why therapy can be a vital lifeline through it all. If you’re trying to untangle your beliefs from your bedroom, this conversation offers both validation and guidance. This one’s extra spicy, so listener discretion is advised.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

When Religion Hurts You by Dr. Laura Anderson available on her website.

Sex, God, and the Conservative Church by Tina Schermer Sellers can be found on her website.

Come As You Are and Come Together by Dr. Emily Nagoski is available on Amazon.

To hear more from The Sexvangelicals, listen to their podcast, check out their blog, and visit their website.

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