by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 30, 2018 | Preparing for Marriage
I’ve written at length on the blog about why we should wait until marriage for sex, and why God made sex just for marriage.But sometimes I fear that in all of our talk about saving sex for marriage we forget that the biggest sexual temptation isn’t always...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 13, 2018 | Making Sex Feel Good
What’s the next step if you’ve learned everything you can about how to have great sex, but your body isn’t getting with the program? Yesterday I shared the first half of a post that a reader sent me (who wishes to remain anonymous) about her journey...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 10, 2018 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
“If you get raped, does that mean you’re not a virgin anymore?” That was one of the anonymous questions asked at a small group my 17-year-old daughter was at one summer. The adults leading the discussion hemmed and hawed, saying technically, they...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 26, 2018 | Preparing for Marriage, Sex
If you lose your virginity in a one-night stand, how do you deal with the shame you feel? That’s a question I get quite a bit. And when I was writing The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex, one of the themes that kept popping up in my surveys was women saying...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 3, 2017 | Parenting Teenagers, Preparing for Marriage
Like many parents of 90s kids, I once embraced I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Written by then-21-year-old Joshua Harris, it was all about how “dating” is dangerous and will wreck your ability to have a good marriage. Instead, what we should aim for is...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 29, 2017 | Sex
Growing up in the purity culture people can learn the wrong lessons about sex–and God. Here are 7 things one woman had to unlearn once she married: How can we raise our kids to have a healthy view of sex–and not perpetuate some of the unhealthy aspects of...