Sex, Scandal, & Religion is a history and religion podcast uncovering the forbidden relationships, secret affairs, sacred privileges, and scandals that shook spiritual movements and holy institutions across history.

Religions write rules about sex. Institutions enforce them. And history records what happened when power met desire.

This podcast explores the hidden sexual histories of religious movements, churches, monasteries, sects, cults, and royal courts where belief, authority, intimacy, and secrecy collided. From sacred marriages and celibacy vows to forbidden affairs and explosive scandals, these are the stories that quietly reshaped doctrine, leadership, and faith.

Each episode dives into:

• Sexual scandals inside religious institutions
• Clergy, monks, nuns, and secret relationships
• Sacred sexual privileges and divine authority
• Royal theology and dynastic sex scandals
• Religious rules about sex — and how they failed
• Power, control, and intimacy in closed communities
• Scandals that fractured movements and reformed religions

Through narrative storytelling and historical sources, the show examines sex in religious history, church scandals, cult dynamics, power and sexuality, and the private behavior that altered belief systems, successions, reforms, and collapses.

This isn’t gossip or shock content. It’s a serious, story-driven exploration of religion and sex, revealing how intimacy, secrecy, doctrine, and authority shaped civilizations as much as theology and law.

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

Sex, Scandal, & Religion Where belief meets desire. And history tells the rest.