Suzannah Weiss on Mixing Sex and Spirituality: Q&A

Dr. Anja Schmidt · 2026-10-16

Suzannah Weiss, a writer and sexologist also known as Shoshanna Blanca, recently sat down with La Voix du X for a candid Q&A. In the interview, she opened up about her project Jesus Christ Pornstar and how she blends sexuality with spirituality. Her goal? To challenge sexual shame and help people embrace a more holistic view of faith and desire. ### A Spiritual Awakening Weiss traces the project back to a Christian spiritual awakening. She says it was sparked by appearances of Jesus during psychedelic trips. In her view, this modern Jesus supports sex, psychedelics, and New Age spirituality when they promote well-being. Through works like Uncovering Eve, The Second Cumming, Jesus Lessons, and Orgasmic Prayers, she uses performance, body art, music, and adult content to challenge sexual shame. > "My goal is to teach people how to be a Christian in the bedroom." — Suzannah Weiss ### Redefining Purity When asked how sexuality and spirituality can coexist, Weiss reframes purity. She says it's less about restricting desire and more about how we treat one another. "Many social problems could be solved by placing less emphasis on arbitrary rules such as 'waiting until marriage' and prioritizing what really matters: consent, respect and safety," she explains. She also calls for greater attention to women's pleasure, bodily autonomy, and sexual experiences that nourish people physically and spiritually. ### Faith and Sex Work The Q&A also covers her Reconstructionist Jewish and Quaker upbringing, her work as The Porn Psychic, orgasmic prayer practice, and her doctoral research on how religious sex workers reconcile their profession with faith. Weiss argues that sex workers can offer a valuable perspective on Jesus' teachings about inclusion, humility, and nonjudgment. She boldly declares, "The world would be a better place if radical Christian whores ruled it!" ### Who Is Shoshanna Blanca? Jesus Christ Pornstar is an adult performer, model, psychic medium, feminist writer, and certified sex educator. She is best known for The Second Cumming and Uncovering Eve, video and image series exploring the body, divinity, sexuality, and gender. Her work also includes: - Hysterical Literature Bible Readings: combining self-pleasure with prayer to evoke religious ecstasy - Jesus Lessons: teaching respectful bedroom conduct - The Porn Psychic: vlogs about her visions of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the apocalypse She is currently a PhD student in clinical sexology researching religious sex workers and how they reconcile their vocation with faith. Her academic background spans cognitive neuroscience, gender and sexuality studies, modern culture and media, psychology, and sexual health. Drawing from Reconstructionist Judaism and Quakerism, she reinterprets biblical passages about sex and love to develop a theology for the modern world. She understands her claim to messiahhood as part of a larger movement of people called to help save the world. As Suzannah Weiss, she is a sex therapist and the author of Subjectified: Becoming a Sexual Subject and Eve's Blessing: Uncovering the Lost Pleasure Behind Female Pain, which received the 2026 AASECT Book Award for General Audience. She has written thousands of articles on gender, sexuality, relationships, and wellness for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Playboy. She has also served as an editor for Teen Vogue, Complex, and Vice, and contributed to the anthologies The Big Book of Orgasms and Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World.