By: Jessica Kenley
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 9/8/2026 – There are interviews that feel like interviews, and then there are conversations that leave a reporter staring at the recording afterward, thinking, There is something here that people need to hear.
My conversation with Suzannah Weiss was very much the latter.
A feminist writer, sex educator, sexologist, and author, Weiss has spent more than a decade writing about sexuality and relationships. Her work is unapologetically sex-positive, but what makes it particularly unusual is the place from which she approaches the subject: spirituality.
Rather than viewing sexuality and faith as opposing forces, Weiss has spent years exploring what happens when the two are placed in conversation with one another.
Under the stage name Shoshanna Blanca or Jesus Christ Pornstar, her OnlyFans pages Uncovering Eve and The Second Cumming use biblical imagery, body art, performance, and sexuality to challenge the shame that has historically surrounded women’s bodies and sexual expression.
Weiss believes that this is the era of the End of Times, where there are multiple Messiahs and she is one of them.
“I wanted to embody the sacred whore,” Weiss explained during our conversation, referring to the Mary Magdalene archetype and the longstanding cultural mythology surrounding her. “Because I think in this day and age we should be able to embrace our sexuality however much we want without shame, and know that Jesus still loves us, or God still loves us, or you are still loved, whoever you believe in.”
It is a striking proposition, particularly in a culture where discussions of sex and religion are frequently framed as opposites.
For Jesus Christ Pornstar, however, the contradiction is precisely what she wants to investigate.
From Sexual Empowerment to Biblical Reinterpretation
Weiss’s first two books, Subjectified and Eve’s Blessing, center on sexual empowerment. Her interest in religion developed as she was writing them, following psychedelic experiences that prompted her to begin thinking differently about spirituality and the Bible.
Raised Jewish, Weiss said she became increasingly interested in Christianity after meeting Christians she found compassionate and kind. Eventually, she began attending church herself.
“I was trying to reconcile my sex positivity with my interest in Christianity because I felt like they were such kind, compassionate people, and that there really was something to following Jesus,” she said.
What emerged from that tension was an unusual artistic project—one that would combine biblical themes with sexuality rather than treating them as mutually exclusive.
Her Uncovering Eve project became a companion to Eve’s Blessing, using body art and biblical imagery to revisit the story of Eve and the supposed “curse” placed upon women.
Weiss doesn’t merely repeat the traditional story. She rewrites it.
In one artistic reinterpretation, she transformed the biblical language surrounding Eve’s suffering into a celebration of female sexuality and pleasure.
“I think what we don’t realize is a lot of ideas we have about sexuality that are based on religion—and a lot of ideas that we have about gender that are based on Adam and Eve and other religious stories—are really based on misinterpretations,” she said.
Her argument is that some interpretations of biblical passages have contributed to a cultural understanding of women’s bodies as inherently problematic, shameful, or cursed.
“My book is all about how our bodies are blessed,” she said.
That idea—that the body can be sacred rather than shameful—is at the center of Weiss’s work as Shoshanna Blanca as well.
Pornography as Art—and a Vehicle for Conversation
Jesus Christ Pornstar challenges conventional ideas about pornography.
Weiss does not believe pornography is inherently good or bad. Instead, she argues that the industry itself—and the way society treats the people who work within it—needs to change.
“I don’t think of porn as good or bad,” she said. “I just wish that we were compensated more fairly, that we were not looked down upon.”
Her own work deliberately plays with the expectations of pornography.
In addition to her OnlyFans pages, she showcases her work on Make Love Not Porn. She describes some of her work as an effort to “disrupt the porn industry,” sometimes placing deliberately unexpected material within the conventions of adult content.
One of her most popular concepts involves what she calls “hysterical literature Bible readings”—reading passages from Scripture in an intentionally provocative context: while using a Hitachi Magic Wand, literally “coming to God.”
For her “Jesus Lessons” videos, she harnesses her inner dom to school men on how to be gentlemen in the bedroom—and women on how to train them.
The point, she explained, is not simply shock value.
“I kind of want to disrupt the porn industry because it’s really easy to dehumanize the women, and when you see their soul, that’s difficult to do,” Weiss said. “And they put their heart into it.”
She believes pornography can also be an art form, and imagines a future in which explicit films could be treated with some of the same seriousness as other forms of cinema.
“My dream is to have porn shown in movie theaters,” she said, envisioning adults attending screenings followed by panel discussions.
For Weiss, that kind of environment could potentially encourage a more mature cultural conversation about sex.
“I think that would make us so much more mature about sex, if we could see more artistic porn,” she said.
At the same time, Weiss is sharply critical of portions of mainstream pornography that portray sexual behavior without adequately communicating consent.
She pointed to depictions of domination and non-consensual behavior as particularly troubling, arguing that the problem is not sexuality itself but the way sexuality can be represented and practiced without sufficient concern for another person’s autonomy.
“The porn industry needs to change in terms of how it treats actors and how sex is represented,” she said.
Beyond Purity Culture
Perhaps the strongest thread running through Weiss’s philosophy is her opposition to shame-based approaches to sexuality.
She believes too much responsibility has historically been placed on women to prevent sexual violence by changing their clothing, behavior, or appearance.
“I just think there’s too much emphasis in purity culture around male control of women, around women censoring themselves,” she said.
For Weiss, the central issue isn’t whether women are sufficiently modest.
“The real issue is men taking advantage of women, men violating women, or anyone taking advantage of or violating anyone,” she said.
She argues that society should be focusing far more intensely on actual violations of consent—sexual assault, harassment, coercion and unwanted sexual behavior—rather than teaching women that their own sexuality is dangerous.
“What we should really, what Christians or any religion should really care about, is women getting choked without their consent, women getting sexually harassed, women getting pestered for nudes on dating apps, obviously women getting assaulted, women getting raped,” she said.
“Let’s focus on that,” she added, “and then I think the world would be so much better that we would not need purity culture.”
A Personal Sexual Awakening
Interestingly, Weiss said she was not raised in an environment that was particularly sex-negative. Rather, she grew up in an environment where sexuality simply wasn’t discussed very much.
Her own sexual awakening came during college, when a positive early sexual experience caused her to question what she had previously been taught about sex.
“I thought, wow, why was I never taught sex could be like this?” she recalled.
A sexuality workshop further opened the door to conversations about masturbation, body image, and sexual shame.
“I didn’t need to be ashamed of masturbation. I didn’t need to be ashamed of my body,” she said.
That realization eventually became part of a larger mission.
“I really just wanted to help other people feel that way,” Weiss said.
For her, sexual fulfillment isn’t merely about physical pleasure. It is connected to self-worth, confidence, and emotional well-being.
Finding Compassion Instead of Shame
Weiss’s willingness to speak openly about subjects many people consider uncomfortable is perhaps what makes her work so compelling.
She acknowledges that people have strong opinions about pornography, sexuality, and her work—and that some people have judged or shamed her because of it.
But that experience has also clarified something for her.
“It showed me who my real friends were,” she said.
Her favorite people, she explained, are those who understand the larger philosophy behind what she is doing: that people should be allowed to live without shame when they are not harming anyone.
“I think we should not judge or shame anyone as long as they’re not hurting anyone,” she said.
There is an almost disarming simplicity to that philosophy.
During our conversation, Weiss was personable, candid, and remarkably easygoing. Nothing about her presentation suggested that she was trying to shock for the sake of shocking. Instead, she seemed genuinely fascinated by the questions she was exploring—and genuinely passionate about creating space for conversations that American culture often makes difficult.
Her work asks a provocative question: What if sexuality doesn’t have to be separated from spirituality? What if the body isn’t something to be ashamed of? And what if sexual expression can be approached with the same compassion, humanity, and complexity that we apply to other aspects of human experience?
For Weiss, those questions aren’t merely academic.
They are the foundation of her work.
And perhaps the most radical thing about that work isn’t the nudity, the pornography, or the biblical imagery.
It is the refusal to be ashamed.
As Weiss put it, “If you’re not hurting anyone,” she believes, “we should not judge or shame anyone.”
In a culture that has spent generations arguing over what people should and should not do with their bodies, that may be a surprisingly simple place to begin.
