Sex matters in marriage. When sex is mutual, intimate, and pleasurable for both, sex makes you feel connected. It minimizes minor tensions and makes you laugh. It helps you sleep and makes you feel more relaxed. And it contributes significantly to marital...
Obligation sex can wreak havoc on us. For last month we’ve been doing a deep dive into obligation sex, looking at the main problems with obligation sex, how it affects women’s bodies, why you don’t need to consent to being used, and more. But as we’re nearing the end...
More sex does not fix a marriage. In our study of 20,000 women for The Great Sex Rescue, we found that more sex made good marriages great. Good sex, in a healthy marriage, definitely helps that marriage thrive. But sex can’t fix a bad marriage. And, indeed, having bad...
We know that sex is vulnerable to women. But is it vulnerable to men, too? I received this reader question recently which I found really insightful. She asks,I am currently going through the book, "Rethinking Sexuality" by Dr Julie Slattery. She quotes Timothy Keller...
What's happening with the next generation when it comes to pornography? How will porn use affect them, and their marriages? We're in the last Monday in our series about porn in April. We looked at the effects of porn; at 4 things you should do if your spouse uses...
If you feel stuck in a porn addiction, how do you break that stronghold? This month, in April, we're talking about defeating porn every Monday--but there's so much to say that I'm carrying that series over into other days of the week! We've looked at the effects of...
How is porn related to sex trafficking? We've been talking in the month of April in our Monday series on porn and how to recover from it. We started by talking about the effects of porn; we looked at 4 things you had to do if you spouse used porn, and then yesterday...
What does recovery from porn look like in a marriage? On Mondays in April we're talking about porn in marriage, and how to defeat it. We've looked at the effects of porn; at four things you must do if your husband uses porn; at women porn users. This week we're going...
We've had some really interesting discussions this week, both on the blog and off the blog, talking about advice to help women reach orgasm. Yesterday, on our podcast about explicitness and sex, Rebecca and I were talking about some of the problematic elements of sex...
What should you do if your husband watches porn? This month our theme is pornography use--how to understand the effects of porn; how to defeat porn and recover from porn; how to help the future generation not get hooked. We've also already talked about how women can...
How serious is the porn issue we face today, both for ourselves and for the next generation? Should we be panicking, or is it all going to be okay? I say neither... but also kind of both? All during the month of April, we're going to be looking at the porn epidemic...
How do men who have recovered from a porn addiction see that porn addiction in retrospect? As I unpack from my vacation, I'm happy to have a post to share with you this week from Hugh Houston, who has written the book Jesus is Better than Porn. I know so many wives...
This month, as we're talking about pornography's effects in marriage, let's remember that men are not the only porn users. In fact, women make up an increasingly large portion of porn users, and women deal with a lot of the same effects of porn as men do. Recently a...
This post may contain links to amazon products. After you navigate to Amazon using one of my links, any products you purchase during that visit earn me a commission at no additional cost to you.The side effects of porn are devastating. Pornography is ravaging...
What do porn and coronavirus have in common? We hate them both, and we want them to stop! My series on the blog in April will be on porn, and so to launch that series, I wanted to give a big picture perspective on the real problem with porn (hint: it may not be what...