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Poll: Women More Likely to Be Sexually Harrassed at Church than at Work

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 14, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

Do women feel safer at church or at work? Over the last few weeks the “lust” debate, for lack of a better word, has been heating up on Facebook and Instagram. I’ve been sharing that presenting the idea that lust is every man’s battle is...

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...

Arousal Non-Concordance: You Really Need to Know What it Is

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 1, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Libido

I’d like to begin a longer, ongoing conversation today about arousal non-concordance. To begin, a quick story. As a teen I always won the game Balderdash. Remember that game? You get a bizarre weird word, and everyone has to make up a definition for it, and then...

More Fixed It For Yous: Can Christian Resources Please Stop Enabling Abuse and Sexual Coercion?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 6, 2021 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Sometimes the way that Christian resources talk about sexual coercion and abuse makes me want to cry. When writing The Great Sex Rescue, we read the 10 bestselling marriage books (we excluded 3 because they didn’t talk enough about sex) and 6 iconic sex books....

Dissecting a 1970s Sex Manual: How to Get More Out of Sex

by Connor Lindenbach | Apr 20, 2021 | Making Sex Feel Good

We’ve been taking a romp through history looking at views of sex in different periods. We’ve looked at the Roman world; the medieval period; and the Victorian period. Today we’re jumping forward to the 1970s. On the podcast this week...

Have We Taught Teen Girls to Ignore Red Flags When Dating?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 26, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers, Preparing for Marriage

What happens when we tell girls that “boys will want to push your sexual boundaries”? We’re in the middle of our debunking series, where we look at things that are commonly taught in evangelical circles, and encourage the church to get it right!...