by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 1, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Libido
I’d like to begin a longer, ongoing conversation today about arousal non-concordance. To begin, a quick story. As a teen I always won the game Balderdash. Remember that game? You get a bizarre weird word, and everyone has to make up a definition for it, and then...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 16, 2021 | Libido, Pornography
The “All men struggle with lust” message is a toxic one. On Tuesday I don’t write blog posts anymore–but I published something on Facebook this morning that I thought I’d move over here as well! Yesterday I asked in my Instagram stories...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 1, 2021 | Libido
I’ve often said that the higher drive wife carries a lot of burdens that other permutations of libido do not. It can be very difficult to be a husband married to a woman who doesn’t want sex, but at least that’s culturally expected. AsĀ a woman, we...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 29, 2021 | Healthy Living, Libido
The way we feel about our bodies can cause our libido to crater. And when you feel schlubby (I love that word!), it’s hard to want to get it on. I get the best stuff sent to me from readers, and last week a reader passed along an article from the Wall Street...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 4, 2021 | Libido
Last week we were talking about how neuroscience does NOT say that men and women are different species when it comes to sex. Rebecca and Connor talked on the Bare Marriage podcast last week about how we’ve been told by many evangelical authors that neuroscience...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 1, 2021 | Libido
How do you know if a book is using junk science to prove a point? I thought I’d combine last week’s podcast on a DIY test to see if Christian books are harmful or helpful and this week’s podcast on the problems with the way that far too many...