A Religious Strategy for Sexual Liberation: Pleasure First

The religious motif, “Sex is dangerous and a sin that must be controlled” is found in all anti-sex religions but, especially within US Christianity. This religiously-grounded teaching of dis-ease however, can be countered with the antidote: a pleasure-centered Christianity. Taught by an ordained clergy, artist, and performer this workshop will center faith-based teachings of sexual freedom and pleasure by focusing on the irrepressible liberating forces of the abandonment of laughter, the zest of passion, and irrepressible joy. By embracing pleasure as a strategy we can challenge the power of body repression in the Western Church and move towards sexual liberation.