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Postpartum Hand Jobs, Webinars, and a Pornified View of Women

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 3, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Sexual Intimacy

This was a week where postpartum hand jobs were debated on Facebook a TON–and it was super interesting. On Friday I’m starting to do a round-up of the best of my social media platforms this week, for those of you who may have missed it. Often the best...

The “Sexual Favors” Postpartum Podcast: Can We Please Stop Being Selfish?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 25, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Men's Corner, Parenting Small Children, Podcasts

Rebecca’s postpartum! So we thought it was the perfect time to look at the postpartum advice given in evangelical circles to women. We found in our survey that sex lives can start to go off course with the way that sex is handled postpartum. Many people...

Do Women Consider Giving Sexual Favors Postpartum Arousing?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 23, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

How do you feel about advice that tells postpartum women to care for their husbands’ sexual needs? I don’t write big posts on Tuesdays anymore, but consider this one a prelude to Thursday’s podcast (yes, we’re releasing one on Thanksgiving...

How Do You Feel about Giving “Sexual Favors” While Postpartum/on Your Period?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 15, 2021 | Parenting Small Children, Sexual Intimacy

We’ve talked before about how telling pregnant/postpartum women they should give “hand jobs” to their husbands is just icky and wrong. It was something we felt really strongly about, and we wanted to include in The Great Sex Rescue, but it...

The Pelvic Floor PODCAST Episode: Plus Can You Say Vulva?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 17, 2021 | Healthy Living, Podcasts

Do we know how to care for our pelvic floors? And why we should? We’re in the middle of our pelvic floor series for June, where we talk about some of the things that can go wrong with the pelvic floor (like vaginismus or postpartum pain), and what to do about...

Why We Need a More Nuanced Conversation about Post-Partum Sex

by Camden Morgante | Jun 11, 2021 | Parenting Small Children

When we first wrote The Great Sex Rescue, and started talking about some of the terrible things that we found in evangelical sex books, we didn’t know which themes were going to catch on. I actually thought it was going to be Every Man’s Battle calling...