Let’s Talk About Sex in Sects is a history and religion podcast exploring how sex, power, belief, and control shaped religious movements, sects, and spiritual communities throughout history.

Every sect writes rules about sexuality. Every movement enforces them. And behind closed doors, those rules often collapse.

This podcast uncovers the hidden sexual histories of religious sects, cults, and closed spiritual communities where intimacy became doctrine, authority became desire, and private behavior quietly reshaped faith, loyalty, and power.

Each episode investigates real historical cases involving:

• Sex inside religious movements and sects
• Cult leaders and sacred sexual authority
• Clergy, monks, nuns, and forbidden relationships
• Spiritual marriages and divine permission
• Sexual rules, taboos, and secret exceptions
• Power, control, and intimacy in closed communities
• Scandals that fractured movements and rewrote doctrine

Through narrative storytelling and historical sources, the show examines sex and religion, cult dynamics, religious scandals, power and sexuality, and the private practices that influenced leadership, succession, belief, and collapse.

This isn’t sensational gossip or shock content. It’s a thoughtful, story-driven exploration of sexual history, religious movements, and how desire, secrecy, authority, and faith intersected in some of history’s most controversial communities.

If you’re fascinated by cult history, religion and sex, church scandals, spiritual movements, power and control, sexual politics, and the hidden side of belief — this podcast is for you.

Let’s Talk About Sex in Sects Because doctrine sets the rules. And history reveals what really happened.