"Less shame, more orgasms” is the light hearted, but philosophically weighty, tagline my friend Kim came up with for a class on spirituality and sexuality we are crafting together. A sex and intimacy educator with a Ph.D. from Georgetown, she unearths the ways patriarchy and racism affect our ability to experience pleasure and embodiment. So, we decided to tackle the ways elements of our outer lives — like race, gender, religion and politics — twist our internal lives into a morass of repression, and search for pathways to liberation. ...