Compassion for Anna Duggar–And How We Judge Success in Marriage
Josh Duggar has been arrested by the feds, and I'm so sad for Anna Duggar. I wasn't going to write about this today, but it actually intersects with a number of things I've been thinking about this week, and I thought I could put them all in one place. For those of...
Start Your Engines Podcast: What Has Your WIFE Been Taught about Sex?
Women buy 74% of self-help relationship books. So what have they heard about sex? On the last Thursday of the month I like to direct our podcasts a little bit more at men (though women will still find them interesting!). And in today's Bare Marriage podcast, I'm going...
Do You Feel Like All Men Should Find You Attractive?
Did purity culture make you sexualize all relationships with the opposite sex? We've been talking a lot about youth group lately--what youth group was like before purity culture infiltrated it; how porn may be the new purity culture. We talked last week about how to...
Is Porn the New Purity Culture?
Is the next thing that's going to damage sex in evangelical circles the way that we're treating porn? Now, please understand: I think there is no excuse for watching porn. Porn is the biggest driver of sex trafficking. Even if the porn you're watching is "consensual"...
What Youth Group Was Like Before Purity Culture
I remember a conversation with my husband around 1992 about how the church was totally on the right track! We had dealt with some weird televangelism scandals and they were largely behind us. Women's gifts were being used. A lot of the things that culture made fun of...
How to Help Your Kids Have Healthy Relationships with Opposite Sex
Ever since The Great Sex Rescue published I've had parents ask me--how do we make sure our kids don't grow up with the same messages about sex? It's funny because The Whole Story--our sex & puberty course that moms can share with daughters or dads with sons (or...
Podcast: Christian Sex Books & the Backlash Against the Sexual Revolution
How did the 1950s Kinsey Report & the 1960s and 1970s sexual revolution all contribute to the earliest Christian sex books? We talk about it in today's podcast! And I do need to say, TRIGGER WARNING: We did talk about some pretty intense examples of sexual abuse...
12 Ways a 1970s Christian Sex Bestseller Tried to Push Back Against the Sexual Revolution
When we understand the culture that books are written into, we can understand those books better. Yesterday Connor told us some super weird (and some good) stuff that was in a popular sex book from the early 1970s. On the podcast tomorrow we're going to give even more...
Dissecting a 1970s Sex Manual: How to Get More Out of Sex
We've been taking a romp through history looking at views of sex in different periods. We've looked at the Roman world; the medieval period; and the Victorian period. Today we're jumping forward to the 1970s. On the podcast this week we'll be taking a little bit of a...
Do Christians Still Think Sex is Bad? The Contagion Theory of Sexuality
Sheila here for a moment. The whole time I was writing The Great Sex Rescue, and combing through the materials for terrible quotes, and becoming quite upset about how awful some of them were, Keith took it all in stride. He kept saying, "yes, Sheila, but the...
About Sheila
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.“The Great Sex Rescue!” As Now Available
