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SEXUAL CONFIDENCE: How Can We Get Over Embarrassment About Being Female?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 20, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers

How can we feel sexually confident if we believe that our bodies are gross, objects of embarrassment, or something that makes us “less than”? For a woman to feel sexually confident, she has to feel that being a woman is a good thing, not a source of shame....

The Sexual Confidence Series: 3 Markers of a Sexually Confident Woman

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 11, 2021 | Series, Sexual Intimacy

Sexual confidence can sound almost, well, scary, can’t it? Like it’s something we can never really live up to. A sexually confident woman is someone who is totally okay with her body; totally orgasmic; totally cool telling her husband what she wants in...

Why Exploring Your Pelvic Floor (and Genitalia!) is Crucial to Your Health and Your Sex Life

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 15, 2021 | Healthy Living

What do you know about your pelvic floor? During the month of June we’re talking about pelvic floor issues. We looked at postpartum recovery, what to expect from a pelvic floor physiotherapist appointment, and the main causes of vaginismus. Today, Bethany...

Do Christians Still Think Sex is Bad? The Contagion Theory of Sexuality

by Keith Gregoire | Apr 19, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

Sheila here for a moment. The whole time I was writing The Great Sex Rescue, and combing through the materials for terrible quotes, and becoming quite upset about how awful some of them were, Keith took it all in stride. He kept saying, “yes, Sheila, but the...

Can We Talk about How Porn and Emotional Immaturity Are Related?

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Nov 27, 2020 | Pornography

When we think of porn, we tend to think “sin”. (It’s Sheila introducing this post, but I’m going to put Rebecca as the author since most of these are her words below!) When it comes to porn, what if there’s more going on than just...

Parents: Let’s Not Add Creepy Sexual Messages to Your Daughter’s First Period

by Katie Emmerson | Aug 21, 2020 | Parenting Teenagers

Your daughter’s first period is not the time to warn her about being sexually promiscuous. Let me repeat that: Just because your daughter can get pregnant now does not mean that you should launch into a talk about not fooling around with boys on the day that she...