When Making Love Doesn’t Seem “Hot” Enough

by Sheila Gregoire | Mar 2, 2017 | intimacy, pornography

Let’s face it: sometimes sex with our husbands just doesn’t seem that “hot”. Now that may be because sex has just gotten boring. But sometimes there’s something more sinister at work. And I want to talk about that today, since it’s...

A Dad’s Response to Fifty Shades of Grey

by Sheila Gregoire | Feb 16, 2015 | daughters, husbands and dads, Parenting, teenagers

Today I want to share with you a beautiful story of how a dad makes a difference in his daughters’ lives by deliberately teaching them how they should be treated! I’m just back from a speaking tour in Texas (you can see some photos here on Facebook!), and...

The Appeal of 50 Shades of Grey–and Why We Should Fight

by Sheila Gregoire | Feb 6, 2015 | culture, healing, intimacy, Marriage, media, pornography

Fifty Shades of Grey is coming to theaters everywhere next Valentine’s Day. It’s become the highest advanced ticket sales for any R-rated movie ever. Groups of women are going to see it together. What should our response be? It’s sold as a series...

On Vulnerability, Sex, and Women’s Erotica

by Sheila Gregoire | Jun 25, 2013 | culture, intimacy, pornography, Sex

Up in my neck of the woods, in Ontario, our license plates switched over a couple of years ago to the format four letters and three numbers. And every time a particular community office in the Ministry of Transportation needs more license plates, they get sent 1000 at...

The Mainstreaming of Porn

by Sheila Gregoire | Jul 24, 2012 | pornography

When I was young, it was hard to come across porn by accident. It was all sold in special stores, or on high shelves in magazine racks. Novels weren’t really raunchy in the same way. It wasn’t as if porn could just jump out at you, by accident. But today...

How to Spice Things Up without Fifty Shades of Grey

by Sheila Gregoire | Jun 14, 2012 | fun in bed, intimacy, libido, pornography, Sex

Yesterday I wrote about why reading 50 Shades of Grey can be harmful to your marriage: basically, it causes you to fantasize, so that it’s harder to stay “present” with your spouse. But in reading some of the comments here and on Facebook, I think...

About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! 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 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.