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8 Weird Sex Facts about the Romans

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 6, 2021 | Libido, Series

How did different eras in time treat sex? I’d like to spend April doing some romps through history looking at how we’ve seen libido, the role of sex in marriage and culture, women’s sexuality, and more. Sometimes we get to assuming that our way of...

Top 10 Ways to Get Turned On By Your Husband Again

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 31, 2021 | Libido

What do you do if you’ve lost that spark and you want to be turned on by your husband again? I thought we’d switch gears a bit today and focus on a question that I get from lots of women: they want to be turned on by their husbands, but they’re just...

PODCAST: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Sex

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 18, 2021 | Libido, Podcasts

What if women’s low libido is partly a self-fulfilling prophecy? What happens when women are told: “If your husband is typical, he has a need you don’t have?”, as Love & Respect put it. Over and over again, in our evangelical resources,...

Is Sex a Need or a Drive?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 15, 2021 | Libido, Sexual Intimacy

When we talk about people’s “sexual needs”, are we muddying the waters? Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend and a lovely Valentine’s Day. I’m in the final crunch to get the manuscript for The Good Guy’s...

Why Believing All Men Are Sex Machines Leads to So Much Rejection among Women

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 15, 2021 | Libido

If we believe that men are insatiable sex machines who will want and need sex everyday, what happens when we marry and wives find their husbands are just human? This week, on our Bare Marriage podcast, we talked with Rachel Joy Welcher about her book Talking Back to...

Do You Ever Feel Rejected When Your Husband Seems to Prefer Sleep to Sex?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 13, 2021 | Libido

I wonder: since we’ve grown up believing so much that men want sex all the time, then when he doesn’t initiate sex, do women feel rejected? I’m not talking about the rejection that higher drive wives feel (that’s real, and that’s...

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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.