History of Sex in Religion is a history and religion podcast examining how sexuality, belief, power, and doctrine shaped religious traditions, spiritual movements, and sacred institutions across centuries.

Every religion teaches something about sex. Who may have it. Who must avoid it. And who quietly claimed exceptions.

This podcast explores the long, complex history of sex in religion, uncovering how intimacy, desire, celibacy, control, and secrecy influenced religious law, clergy life, monastic communities, royal theology, and spiritual authority around the world.

Each episode investigates real historical cases involving:

• Sexual rules and taboos in major religions
• Celibacy, chastity, and their contradictions
• Clergy, monks, nuns, and forbidden relationships
• Sacred marriages and spiritual unions
• Power, sexuality, and religious authority
• Sexual discipline as social control
• Scandals that changed doctrine, leadership, and belief

Through narrative storytelling and historical sources, the show examines religion and sexuality, church scandals, cult dynamics, spiritual movements, power and control, and the private lives that quietly shaped theology, succession, reform, and collapse.

This isn’t sensational gossip or modern commentary. It’s a serious, story-driven exploration of sexual history in religion and how intimacy, secrecy, doctrine, and authority shaped civilizations as much as prayer and law.

If you’re interested in religion and sex, church history, cult history, religious scandals, sexual politics, spiritual movements, and the hidden side of faith — this podcast is for you.

History of Sex in Religion Because belief wrote the rules. And history shows what really happened.