Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture Online Conference

📅 May 24–25, 2025 | 💻 Virtual Event | Register Now

If you were raised in a religion that taught you to fear your body, silence your desires, or equate your worth with sexual “purity”—this conference is for you.

Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture is the first and only event of its kind, offering survivors of Purity Culture a liberating, sex-positive, and deeply affirming space to learn, grow, and heal. Held virtually on May 24–25, 2025, this two-day online gathering features a dynamic lineup of therapists, coaches, educators, and artists who are leading the way in sexual healing and religious trauma recovery.

Whether you’re early in your deconstruction or already living your truth, this is a space to reclaim your erotic self and rewrite your story—with community, compassion, and expert guidance.

🌟 Why This Conference Matters

Religious Purity Culture has left a deep mark on many of us. Research shows it can cause:

Sexual shame and dysfunction, including difficulty experiencing pleasure or orgasm
Distorted self-image, particularly for LGBTQ+ individuals and women taught their worth lies in modesty or abstinence
Fear, guilt, or anxiety around desire, intimacy, and touch
Dissociation or pain during sex (like vaginismus or arousal disorder), often rooted in unconscious trauma
Difficulty communicating needs or setting boundaries, especially around consent and safety

Purity Culture isn’t just restrictive—it’s harmful. It teaches us to ignore our instincts, repress our pleasure, and carry shame that was never ours to hold.

But you don’t have to stay stuck in those messages.

🔥 What You’ll Learn

This event is a masterclass in unlearning sexual shame and rediscovering joy, agency, and erotic power. Sessions will explore topics like:

Masturbation, Porn, and Your Sex Life: A Philosophy of Sexuality Throughout the Life Cycle
Healing Beyond the Binary: Transgender expansiveness, sexualities, and overcoming religious residue
Turning your pleasure into profit (without feeling icky)
Unlocking Sensuality Through Somatic Striptease
The Mechanism of Sexual Shame
Confronting Coercion: Freeing Yourself from Sexual Obligation Messages
Sex and Money is Actually the Whole Point
Voices from the Bedroom : Purity Culture Survivors Talk About Finding Healing
Deconstructing Monogamy Post-Religion: An introduction into polyamory
The Horny Chapel: Deconstructing Purity Culture in the AAPI Community
Embracing Your Sexy Self, Literally and Figuratively

Check out the full sp eaker schedule and topics here.

🎤 Featured Speakers

The conference features inspiring voices in sexuality and religious trauma recovery, including:

Dr. Darrel Ray, psychologist and author of Sex and God
Nikole Mitchell, Pleasure Coach and ex-pastor
Tessi Muskrat, M.A., co-founder of the Purity Culture Research Collective
Kristin Cherry Jackson, LMFTA, licensed psychotherapist
Mike Phillips, certified sex therapist
Quantas Ginn, professor at Pacific Lutheran University
Elayna Love, adult entertainer and liberation advocate
Dr. Kayden Vargas, psychologist and professor
Glenda Jordan, artist and performer
Scott Okamoto, musician, writer, and podcaster
Priska, singer/songwriter

This isn’t just a conference. It’s a revolution.

🎟️ Ticket Options

All-Access Pass – $99: Includes live keynotes, speaker sessions, virtual exhibit hall, and real-time Q&A.
Resources-Only Ticket – $50: Includes access to all video replays after the event.

Register here

💬 Why This Matters (And How I Can Help)

As someone who has worked with countless individuals harmed by purity culture, I know the courage it takes to even look at these wounds, let alone heal them.

But here’s the truth: Sexual healing isn’t just about sex. It’s about freedom.

It’s about coming home to yourself—your body, your desires, your pleasure, your truth.

It’s about releasing inherited shame and rewriting the scripts that have kept you disconnected.

And it’s about rediscovering your power, one brave, turned-on, tender step at a time.

Healing from purity culture is life-changing work. And if you’re ready to explore your inner world more deeply, I offer Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to help you unburden shame, reconnect with your true Self, and fully reclaim your sexuality. You don’t have to do it alone—I’m here when you’re ready.

Also, I’m honored to share that Janice Selbie, the founder of this powerful conference and author of Divorcing Religion: A Memoir and Survival Handbook, recently invited me to be a guest on her Divorcing Religion podcast. Stay tuned for that conversation—it’s going to be juicy and real.

✨ Final Word

Your sexuality isn’t a problem to fix.
It’s a power to reclaim.
And it’s time.

Join the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture on May 24–25 and begin the journey of healing, connection, and erotic freedom.

You deserve to feel whole. You deserve to feel alive. You deserve to feel free.

In empowering support,
Forest Benedict, LMFT

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