HOLY EROTICA

SENSUAL STUDIES AND SACRED STORIES

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  • About this Curation: Homoeroticism as Study and Shame

  • Series I: Transformation

    • About

    • Featured Artifacts

    • Exclusive Artifacts

  • Series II: Transformation

    • About

    • Featured Artifacts

    • Exclusive Artifacts

  • Series III: Transfiguration

    • About

    • Featured Artifacts

    • Exclusive Artifacts

ABOUT THIS CURATION |

The Holy Erotica Film Studies extends beyond The Lilith Trilogy, offering a deeply personal and transformative collection of visual and audio artifacts. Each piece is an intimate exercise in somatic artography, blending embodiment and storytelling to explore the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and self-discovery.

This exclusive curation is thoughtfully presented for COHE members in The Gallery, a sacred space for connection, reflection, and growth.

HYPOTHESIS: What were to happen if my camera unapologetically followed my shame?

In my sexless marriage, I avoided content featuring men—it was too painful, filling me with jealousy and deepening my sense of inadequacy.

Feminine erotic content felt safer, an unlikely temptation, and I engaged with it secretly. While it nourished me, it also amplified my shame, as it made me feel more inadequate as a man.

When I began creating Holy Erotica, I instinctively turned to this secret place—women-only content—allowing my camera to follow my shame and fantasy. Though it started exciting and rewarding as a man who was considered safe, I remained invisible. Behind the camera, I was embodied, but detached from my masculinity.

Over time, this invisibility eroded my sense of self, leaving me unable to take up space as a man in relationships or in my art.

To reclaim myself, I returned to my footage, developing the pleasure praxis—a framework for self-analysis and self-articulation. Through this process, I confronted the frustration, sadness, and anger of being erased in my own work. This journey became a portal, ultimately leading me to place myself in front of the camera.

The arc of my self-discovery is reflected in the artifacts below: a curation that begins with beholding the feminine and ends with finding myself as the unarticulated masculine—a series aptly titled Finding Me. It also features studies which are precursors to or inspired by The Lilith Trilogy.

My conclusion is that if we were to examine our own porn-watching habits, and somehow go down that rabbit hole through our own unique expression, what we will ultimately find—through an ego death of emotion—is our Authentic Self.

HOMOEROTICISM | AS STUDY AND SHAME

My first artifact series is an exploration of homoeroticism, which I grew up understanding as a sin, a theological embodied shame.       

Growing up fundamentalist, I was taught that homoeroticism was a sin. Through my film studies, I chose to confront this belief—and, in doing so, I confronted my own homoeroticism. This was tied to a deep wound: as a boy, I was molested by a male friend. That trauma created a gap in my ability to connect with other men.

Filming became a way to face this wound. Eventually, I took the confrontation further, experiencing an ego-death that healed my struggles to connect with both men and women.

My experience of homoeroticism feels the opposite of what I was taught. Not shame, but profound life-transformative embodied grace.

In my experience, homoeroticism is not an aberration but an initiation: an egoic death fostering healthier connections between the masculine and feminine, both interrelationally and intrarelationally. While it is not a requirement, it is a CHOICE—a pathway to cultivating deeper and higher connections.

These works express the feminine reconnecting with herself. Feminine homoeroticism without shame mirrors masculine homoeroticism without shame—both are expansive embodiments of UNITY and ONENESS.

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LESBIAN

HOLY EROTICA ARTIFACTS SERIES I

LECTURE |

TRANSFORMATION

FILM STUDY: THE KUNDALINI CHARACTER STUDY: DR. KINCAID

THEMES: Mezo-American Spiritualism

ABOUT THIS CURATION |

The Holy Erotica Film Studies extends beyond The Lilith Trilogy, offering a deeply personal and transformative collection of visual and audio artifacts. Each piece is an intimate exercise in somatic artography, blending embodiment and storytelling to explore the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and self-discovery.

This exclusive curation is thoughtfully presented for COHE members in The Gallery, a sacred space for connection, reflection, and growth.

Purity Culture and Fallout | MOVING ANGER

Nashville, TN

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.

Purity Culture and Fallout | MOVING ANGER

Nashville, TN

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.

Purity Culture and Fallout | MOVING ANGER

Nashville, TN

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.

ABOUT THIS CURATION | EXCLUSIVE

The Holy Erotica Film Studies extends beyond The Lilith Trilogy, offering a deeply personal and transformative collection of visual and audio artifacts. Each piece is an intimate exercise in somatic artography, blending embodiment and storytelling to explore the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and self-discovery.

This exclusive curation is thoughtfully presented for COHE members in The Gallery, a sacred space for connection, reflection, and growth.

INTRODUCING THE BOX STUDY |

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.

SELF PLEASURE

HOLY EROTICA ARTIFACTS SERIES II

LECTURE |

TRANSCENDECE

FILM STUDY: THE KUNDALINI CHARACTER STUDY: DR. KINCAID

THEMES: Mezo-American Spiritualism

ABOUT THIS CURATION |

The Holy Erotica Film Studies extends beyond The Lilith Trilogy, offering a deeply personal and transformative collection of visual and audio artifacts. Each piece is an intimate exercise in somatic artography, blending embodiment and storytelling to explore the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and self-discovery.

This exclusive curation is thoughtfully presented for COHE members in The Gallery, a sacred space for connection, reflection, and growth.

Purity Culture and Fallout | MOVING ANGER

Nashville, TN

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.

ABOUT THIS CURATION | EXCLUSIVE

The Holy Erotica Film Studies extends beyond The Lilith Trilogy, offering a deeply personal and transformative collection of visual and audio artifacts. Each piece is an intimate exercise in somatic artography, blending embodiment and storytelling to explore the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and self-discovery.

This exclusive curation is thoughtfully presented for COHE members in The Gallery, a sacred space for connection, reflection, and growth.

INTRODUCING THE BOX STUDY |

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.

TRANSMISSION

HOLY EROTICA ARTIFACTS SERIES III

LECTURE |

TRANSFIGURATION

FILM STUDY: THE KUNDALINI CHARACTER STUDY: DR. KINCAID

THEMES: Mezo-American Spiritualism

ABOUT THIS CURATION |

The Holy Erotica Film Studies extends beyond The Lilith Trilogy, offering a deeply personal and transformative collection of visual and audio artifacts. Each piece is an intimate exercise in somatic artography, blending embodiment and storytelling to explore the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and self-discovery.

This exclusive curation is thoughtfully presented for COHE members in The Gallery, a sacred space for connection, reflection, and growth.

Purity Culture and Fallout | MOVING ANGER

Nashville, TN

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.

ABOUT THIS CURATION | EXCLUSIVE

The Holy Erotica Film Studies extends beyond The Lilith Trilogy, offering a deeply personal and transformative collection of visual and audio artifacts. Each piece is an intimate exercise in somatic artography, blending embodiment and storytelling to explore the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, and self-discovery.

This exclusive curation is thoughtfully presented for COHE members in The Gallery, a sacred space for connection, reflection, and growth.

INTRODUCING THE BOX STUDY |

The montage distills the core of purity culture and its aftermath, rich with powerful moments and raw emotion. One such moment is my real-time discovery of how Scripture on marriage is presented from the pulpit, in stark contrast to the way it’s taught in seminary.

Personally, co-producing this artifact with my podcast partner was a thrill. We were on adventure, traveling across the country and hoping on flights collecting sound-bites, stories, and making new friends along the way.