Sexual Intimacy Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

8 Ways to Improve Sex for International Lovemaking Day!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 9, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

It’s June 9, which means it’s International Lovemaking Day! (If some of you don’t get that, it’s 6/9. I feel like some 13-year-old boy giggling at a sexual innuendo, but there you go). Dan Purcell, the creator of the Intimately Us app, was a...

She Doesn’t Need to Put Out. That’s Not All He Thinks About! How Our Sexuality Got Derailed

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 19, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

Today’s post is by Dorothy Littell Greco, author of Making Marriage Beautiful and Marriage in the Middle, a great book about marriage in midlife. Today she adapts an excerpt for us from Marriage in the Middle about how faulty teaching and cultural...

The Chapter That Got Cut from The Great Sex Rescue

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 18, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

Our first draft of The Great Sex Rescue was almost 80,000 words. We had to cut a lot to get it down to 65,000. So we started with cutting big chunks (which is often easier than cutting a sentence here or there.) And one chapter that we removed was sex as...

How to Reclaim Sex and Not Make it Ugly

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 29, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

Sometimes, the way we talk about the purpose of sex makes it clear that we don’t understand the beauty of sex at all. And that needs to stop! Just a quick post today (or what I hope will be a quick post) with a comment about a news story in the Christian world...

Which Comes First, Sex or Friendship? The Chicken and the Egg in Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 23, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

Sex and friendship in marriage can be a lot like the chicken and the egg. Do you have sex to build friendship, or does building friendship lead to more sex. The answer? Yes. Yes to both. That’s what we found in our survey results for The Great Sex Rescue, as...

One Day More: Les Miserables and Our Dream for The Great Sex Rescue

by Joanna Sawatsky | Mar 1, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

We have written the story of the Great Sex Rescue many ways. It is, of course, the book which releases tomorrow. Our survey of 20,000 women, on which that book was based, will also be the basis for our submission to academic journals. And it is, of course, the basis...

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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.