GOSPEL OF THE BODY
LIVING MAGAZINE | ONLINE COMMUNITY | KEEPER OF HOLY EROTICA
On Cover | Venus Noir
WINTER 2025
ISSUE 1 | Erotic Christ, Conquest + Communion
DISCLAIMER: Gospel of the Body contains material intended for adults only. Content may include mature themes, discussions of sexuality, erotic imagery, and topics not suitable for minors. By accessing this site, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and choose to view this content voluntarily.
ARTICLES
Featured
Conquest Code & Christ Code: A Filmmakers Discovery
Unraveling Christian Nationalism one cinematic frame at a time.
Reframing Marilyn: Playboy’s F1rst Cover Girl
Hugh Hefner published her without consent—and even chose to be buried beside her.
PUBLIC CURATION
Magdalene Remembered
The latest Holy Erotica film offered as prayer of pleasure and healing for a divided nation
The Great Omission
A personal journey through discovery and integration of sacred conquest.
THE FIRST ARTIFACT |
EROTIC CHRIST, CONQUEST + COMMUNION
-
Artifact 120225, a half-hour film study, begins as an unexpected take on America’s failed sex education and unfolds into a profound dismantling of the Conquest Code—the worldview that weaponized shame, distorted sovereignty, and reshaped Western theology. Through personal storytelling, cinematic montage, and clear distinctions between conquest and communion, the film reframes the teachings of Christ as a transfigurative axis of paradoxical opposites, not a tool of domination. Moving from national history to embodied awakening, from treaties to trauma to erotic integration, the piece reveals how healing begins in the body and ends in collective remembrance. Ultimately, it invites viewers to recognize the Erotic Christ as a living code within themselves, and points toward a new cosmology grounded in mutual sovereignty, communion, and love.
Artifact 120225, a half-hour film study, begins as an unexpected take on America’s failed sex education and unfolds into a profound dismantling of the Conquest Code—the worldview that weaponized shame, distorted sovereignty, and reshaped Western theology. Through personal storytelling, cinematic montage, and clear distinctions between conquest and communion, the film reframes the teachings of Christ as a transfigurative axis of paradoxical opposites, not a tool of domination. Moving from national history to embodied awakening, from treaties to trauma to erotic integration, the piece reveals how healing begins in the body and ends in collective remembrance. Ultimately, it invites viewers to recognize the Erotic Christ as a living code within themselves, and points toward a new cosmology grounded in mutual sovereignty, communion, and love.
ORIENTATION VIDEO
The WHO,WHAT, and WHY we are HERE.
WORD MADE FLESH
WHY THIS WORK EXISTS
-
Most people will never walk the territories I’ve walked—evangelical ministry, sexual repression, marriage trauma, cinematic revelation, erotic awakening, psychic collapse, mythic rebirth. My life was not a curriculum. It was a frontier.
What I return with is not a method, but coordinates.
Not a path, but a map.I’m not here to be a guru or a guide, and I’m not asking anyone to repeat my story. It had to be singular. Yours will be too. What is universal is the need for orientation—knowing where the body begins when old beliefs collapse, where eros leads when shame dies, where God hides when religion breaks.
This magazine isn’t prescriptive, evangelical, or answer-driven.
It’s cartography: a record of one man’s passage through the dissolution of inherited myth and the reassembly of an embodied self.I’m not coaching others through my experience. I’m naming mine so others can recognize their own terrain.
My work traces how awakening actually unfolds—how shame unravels, desire becomes holy, trauma reorganizes the nervous system, creativity turns into scripture, and love becomes orientation rather than attachment.
It lives at the intersection of erotic integration, religious deconstruction, filmmaking as revelation, masculine healing, and a third narrative—neither religious nor pornographic, but erotic spirituality.
If anything here guides you, let it guide you toward yourself—not toward me. I offer the map because I survived the terrain, and the story because it carries medicine.
The world is starving for the union of body, eros, and spirit—
and for the language to name it.
INSIDE ISSUEArticles + Artifacts |
Christian Pornography: A Search and Study
I went looking for examples, expecting clarity through comparison. What met me instead was something unexpected.
Recording the MIND-BODY, and Listening
An exploration in the epistemology of somatic artography.
A Christic Psychosis Reviewed
A sober review of personal and cultural events that swept across America.
SOUL
Post-Atomic America: An Abused Teenager Nation
Reframing America through the lens or religious-sexual trauma.
HOLY EROTICA: Story and Study
Featured erotic spreads from my first short films, alongside excerpts from an unpublished art photography book.
MIND
BODY
Featured:
Conquest Code & Christ Code: A Filmmakers Discovery
Deconstructing the conquest code of Christian Nationalism.
Reframing Marilyn: Playboy’s F1rst Cover Girl
Hugh Hefner used Marilyn’s images without her consent, and is buried next to her without her consent.
Promotional Ad:
holy erotica film now available in the PUBLIC CURATION
“Return to Eden.” - Magdalene Remembered
PUBLIC CURATIONArticles + Artifacts |
Part II: Reconstruction
These videos trace my reconstruction through non-Western spiritualities and the realignment of my body and being.
SOUL
Part I: Deconstruction
These video artifacts document the unraveling of my Western theology through the lens of my religious and sexual wounds—and the healing that followed.
Part III: Integration
These video artifacts are a recalibration of Old and New Testament concepts (Law and Holy Spirit) to the body and our eroticism.
Public Artifacts: Holy Erotica Shorts
Magdalene Remembered
The latest Holy Erotica film offered as prayer of pleasure and healing for a divided nation
JFOD Graphic Comic
A 5-Panel study of transmuting the art film into another interation of art.
Cosmic Touch
A film study of self-pleasure revealing how sex and spirit expand together.
Public Artifacts: Talks
MIND
BODY
Paradox: Over Arching Journey
These video artifacts hold the arc of my lived experience as parable, offering it as a transfigurative axis rather than a personal narrative.
ABOUT NATE
The Great Omission
A personal journey through discovery and integration of sacred conquest.
MISSIONWHAT IS A LOVE ECONOMY?
A "love economy" is a system where love, compassion, and positive social interactions drive exchange, prioritizing community well-being, ethics, and sustainability over traditional profit and competition.
NATHANAEL L. NOVERO , N / O
Executive Producer, Creative Director
My life’s work is to reconcile sex and spirit. I am not here to offer a path for anyone to follow. I am here to offer a map. My story—religion, shame, sexuality, film, collapse, resurrection—is not a model to imitate but a landscape I walked through and returned from alive. Not just me, but also those I share this space with. What we share now as a collective is orientation, not instruction: a way to help others decode their own journey toward embodiment, eros, and truth.
-
Most people will never walk the territories I’ve walked—evangelical ministry, sexual repression, marriage trauma, cinematic revelation, erotic awakening, psychic collapse, mythic rebirth. My life was not a curriculum. It was a frontier.
What I return with is not a method, but coordinates.
Not a path, but a map.I’m not here to be a guru or a guide, and I’m not asking anyone to repeat my story. It had to be singular. Yours will be too. What is universal is the need for orientation—knowing where the body begins when old beliefs collapse, where eros leads when shame dies, where God hides when religion breaks.
This magazine isn’t prescriptive, evangelical, or answer-driven.
It’s cartography: a record of one man’s passage through the dissolution of inherited myth and the reassembly of an embodied self.
The image banners that follow trace the arc of my experience—how the fragmented erotic became a portal back to the wholeness of embodiment, lineage and earth.
- N / O
FOR A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH.
RECLAIMING THE HOLY OF
EROTICISM for a free world.
© 2 Stories / Nathanael L. Novero, 2025. All rights reserved.
All content on this website, including text, images, graphics, videos, and design elements, is the exclusive property of 2 Stories / Nathanael L. Novero or permission has been given.
Reproduction, distribution, modification, or any unauthorized use of the content is strictly prohibited without explicit written permission. For inquiries regarding permissions, please contact: NathanaelNovero@gmail.com