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What We Don’t Know about the Clitoris (And Other Parts of Women’s Sexuality)

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 22, 2021 | Making Sex Feel Good

Did you know that it’s only recently that medical textbooks have started getting the clitoris right? For years, the clitoris was shown as smaller than it actually is, and often the nerves and rooots were omitted. The penis, on the other hand, tended to be...

SEXUAL CONFIDENCE: 4 Tips for Building Sexual Confidence as the Higher Drive Wife

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 1, 2021 | Libido

I’ve often said that the higher drive wife carries a lot of burdens that other permutations of libido do not. It can be very difficult to be a husband married to a woman who doesn’t want sex, but at least that’s culturally expected. As a woman,...

A Romp through 10 Weird Things Victorians Believed about Sex

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

We are continuing our romp through the ages with sex in Victorian times! Throughout the month of April I’ve wanted to look at how sex was seen at different periods in history, so that we could figure out how we got where we are now–and so that we could see...

PODCAST: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Sex

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 18, 2021 | Libido, Podcasts

What if women’s low libido is partly a self-fulfilling prophecy? What happens when women are told: “If your husband is typical, he has a need you don’t have?”, as Love & Respect put it. Over and over again, in our evangelical resources,...

What Does It Mean to Be Attracted to Your Husband?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 28, 2020 | Libido

What does it mean to be “attracted to your husband”? What does that actually feel like and look like? I’ve been talking about libido all month on the blog, and one of the problems when we’re talking about libido is trying to understand what we...

What if Low Libido Women Are Often Sexually Starved Women?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 25, 2020 | Libido, Making Sex Feel Good

Are libido differences really about libido–or are they often about orgasm? We’ve been talking about libido all month, and how to navigate libido differences. And as I’ve been repeatedly saying, our survey of 20,000 women (and others) have shown that...