We've finally made the move, and To Love, Honor and Vacuum is now rebranded Bare Marriage! Connor has been working on this for a few months now, and it turned into a much bigger job than we anticipated. I started To Love, Honor and Vacuum back in 2008. I started out...
The "Obligation Sex Message" is toxic. The idea that a woman is obligated to have sex with her husband when he wants it was the most toxic belief that we measured in our survey of 20,000 women for The Great Sex Rescue--and our survey of men. On Tuesdays I don't write...
As we're wrapping up the sexual confidence series today, I've been thinking about what the main message is that I want people to take away. For the last two months we've been talking about sexual confidence--what it is; what it's not; how to feel confident if you're...
Rebecca's postpartum! So we thought it was the perfect time to look at the postpartum advice given in evangelical circles to women. We found in our survey that sex lives can start to go off course with the way that sex is handled postpartum. Many people don't recover...
If you've read The Great Sex Rescue, it may have opened your eyes to so much that's holding you back. But where do you go from here?Sheila here! Today Dr. Camden Morgante, a clinical psychologist and good friend, is joining us to suggest next steps after reading The...
What if the reason authors can't give up the obligation sex message is that they fear women won't have sex otherwise? It's time for another edition of the Bare Marriage podcast! (And we filmed this before Rebecca gave birth; she's being induced as we speak, so that's...
Elisabeth Elliot's book Passion and Purity is NOT a love story. These last few weeks I've been reading the big books marketed to young women in the evangelical world for research for our mother-daughter book, and one of those was Passion & Purity. I read it first...
Today I want to revisit a rather controversial topic. Except "want" is really not the right word. I'd love to run as far away from this one as possible. But I keep being asked about sex toys, and I haven't written about them in a long time, and my thinking has evolved...
How do you know if you're being abused? One of the hardest parts of blogging is reading so many heartbreaking emails and comments that come in from people in truly destructive marriages. I find myself wondering, why do people treat each other this way? And even more...