What If We’re Teaching Purity All Wrong?

by Sheila Gregoire | May 29, 2017 | preparing for marriage, teenagers

What if the way that we’re teaching purity is really hurting kids? I’m just back from my walking tour of Ireland with my husband, and it was AMAZING! I’m hoping to do a post soon with some of our pictures and tell you about how neat (and relatively...

A Letter To All Those Who Feel They Have Lost Their Purity

by Sheila Gregoire | Jan 21, 2016 | Sex

Purity. Virginity. We have two words in English to use about someone who has never had sex, but we don’t have words to use for people who have never said a swear word; never cheated on their taxes; never stolen anything. So perhaps it’s no wonder that...

10 Things That Scare Me About the “Purity” Culture

by Sheila Gregoire | Jan 19, 2016 | teenagers

Does the purity culture movement do more harm than good? Last week I wrote a three part series on vaginismus, when you experience pain during intercourse. And in that series we ended up discussing the purity culture in modern Christianity, and its potentially harmful...

Intimacy Before Marriage: It’s More than Just Sex!

by Sheila Gregoire | May 8, 2014 | intimacy, libido, Sex, teenagers

Yesterday Darby Dugger shared a great post about her biggest regret: not staying pure until 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...

Why I Wish I Had Stayed Pure Before Marriage

by Sheila Gregoire | May 7, 2014 | Marriage, Sex

Today, on Wifey Wednesday, we welcome guest poster Darby Dugger, who is talking about staying pure before marriage. And remember: every Wednesday, you can link up your own marriage posts in the linky below! “We have a young sister, and her breasts are not yet...