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What Attributes Make the Sexually Healthy Man?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 6, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy, Theology of Marriage and Sex

How can we define a sexually healthy man? I’ve just spent a year thinking about what it takes to be a sexually healthy woman–after doing our survey of over 20,000 women last winter! You’ll see all about it in our upcoming book The Great Sex Rescue....

What Happens When We Get Gender Stereotypes Wrong?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 11, 2020 | Resolving Conflict

Yesterday we posted an important podcast about the idea that “men need respect and women need love”, and that these should be unconditional. It’s blown up on Twitter, and I’ve had so much feedback it’s hard to keep track. But a few things...

Aragorn, Cinema Therapy, and Authentic Masculinity

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 9, 2020 | Emotional Connection

As we’re trying to understand emotional maturity, can we get a better picture of what authentic masculinity is? We talk a lot about toxic masculinity, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a healthy term. Many people fear that we’re labelling...

EMOTIONAL MATURITY SERIES: Do Christian Resources Promote Emotional Immaturity (especially in men)?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 23, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Christian books ask far more of women than they do of men. We learned that pretty quickly when we read the top 15 bestselling Christian sex & marriage books for our upcoming book The Great Sex Rescue. But what they’re really doing is assuming that men can...

Let’s All Celebrate the Real Men in Our Lives!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 6, 2018 | Family

What makes a real man? I’ve been talking all week about legalism in our churches and in our families, and to tell you the truth, I’m a little depressed. It takes a lot out of me, to see people choosing ways of looking at the world that have the capacity to...

Churches: Can We Stop with the “Boys Will Be Boys” Already?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 28, 2016 | Libido, Theology of Marriage and Sex

I am tired of the “boys will be boys” message that I hear from so many pastors and pulpits, talking about lust as if it’s normal and women as if we are always going to be objects of temptation to men.And so I’d like to go on a little rant...