attitudes towards sex | To Love, Honor and Vacuum

If Sex Feels Terrible…How Can You Look Forward to It?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 10, 2020 | Making Sex Feel Good

So sex feels terrible. You feel nothing–or maybe even some pain. So how do you look forward to it? That’s the question that one of our frequent commenters was asking this week, and I feel for her, because I’ve been in her situation. She’s a...

The Stages of Sex: The Exhausted Years with Kids & Jobs

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 9, 2019 | Libido, Parenting Small Children

What happens to sex when little kids come along? When you find yourselves busy and run off your feet? Every Wednesday in October we’re looking at the stages of sex in marriage. Last week we looked at the “figuring things out” stage, when sex is...

Should This Wife Have to Be Sexier? I’m Asking YOU!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 26, 2019 | Spicing Things Up

I need your help to figure out how to help this woman who wants to be sexier. I can’t do it myself, because Saturday, I did this: I was cutting an onion to make dinner when Connor and Rebecca came back to town for the weekend and after the first slice...

Reader Question: Help! My Husband Wants Sex Everyday!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 12, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy

What do you do if your husband wants sex everyday, but isn’t interested at all in how you feel about it or how you feel during it?On Mondays I like to take a reader question and take a stab at answering it, and I thought that, since I hadn’t done an Ask...

10 Tips for Teaching Your Kids About Sex

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 21, 2019 | Parenting Small Children

We live in a world with such distorted sexuality that teaching kids about sex in a healthy way becomes challenging. First there’s our culture which tells us that sexiness is all that matters–that sexual experimentation is part of figuring out who you are...

Sex Ed for Christians: The Theology of the Penis

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 15, 2019 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

What does the penis, or male genitalia in general, teach us about God, about marriage, about the sexes? This month I’m trying to expand on sex ed for adults in our Wednesday themed posts, and I want to talk today about what the penis tells us about God. So far...