S1/E5. Melissa’s Heaux Story: Ex Seventh Day Adventist, Author, The Glory Whole

Heauxly Coitus

Melissa is writing a book! The Glory Whole – a memoir of misogyny, sex, family, secrets and purity culture within the claustrophobic depths of the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Raised in a severe, cult-like branch of the extreme fundamentalist SDA church, Melissa fled the church at 18 and plunged headlong into the “real world,’ notching an Ivy League degree, a modeling and movie career, jobs working for famous politicians and billionaires, and seeking every excess possible with the sex & celebrity crowd across the US and Europe. Thoroughly congratulating herself on escaping her upbringing, she sailed smugly into adulthood where, in the middle of two marriages and two children, she learned multiple members of her family had been child molesters and abusers within the SDA church. This brought on a decades-long discovery process: finding a speaking to the victims, confronting family and church members, reaching out to further victims within the SDA system, and ultimately discovering and addressing her own far-reaching trauma from purity culture, patriarchal domination, family dynamics, fundamentalist mind-fuckery, and more. . Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube: @the_glory_whole . Come share your heaux story on the pod! Be the next guest. Inbox me, Ms. Heauxly Coitus @heauxlycoitus . To be a heaux is to engage in consensual sex, be kind your yourself and partner(s), creative, fully embodied, unapologetic, powerful, and free.