Is there hope for recovery for unwanted sexual behaviors, fantasies, or compulsions? I've been wanting to do this podcast for ages! I love Jay Stringer's book Unwanted, and we've connected behind the scenes a bit over the last few months, talking about our respective...
How many of us have heard a grown man grumble about what a teenager is wearing, saying “She knows what she’s doing”? Rebecca here on the blog, bringing you another dose of data from new research we haven’t reviewed on the blog yet! This one is super interesting, and...
What if the "all men struggle with lust" message is coloring how we see life? We're in the middle of our New Research series on the Bare Marriage blog, where we talk about some interesting studies that have come out with relevance to marriage, sex, and more. Recently...
Summer is here, and many of us are heading to the beach! But what do you do if the beach is a minefield because your husband checks out other women? Some women have written in having this problem. Here's one woman who says that whenever they're in public (even at the...
Porn addictions do not discriminate. For the last few weeks, I have been writing about how we need to change the way we talk about sex in church; sex is not just for men, but for women as well. However, the same applies to porn. It is not just men who are getting...
Porn and anger go together, because porn doesn't just affect someone's sex drive. Porn affects personality, too. Last weekend I was speaking in Edmonton at the Breakforth conference on a cold, dark, freezing rain Sunday morning. The topic was "how porn wrecks intimacy...
What should you do if your fiance watches porn? Quite frankly, Porn destroys marriage. It rewires the brain so that what becomes arousing is an image, rather than a person. And it distorts people's sexuality, so that we concentrate solely on the physical aspects of...
We talk a lot about what to do when your husband struggles with porn here on the site. Today, however, we get to hear from Hugh Huston, author of Jesus is Better than Porn, who is himself a husband who struggled with porn for 30 years. And when he decided enough was...
Women, you are not living in a dream world if you want to be married to a guy who doesn't lust. It is perfectly reasonable, and utterly biblical, to expect that your husband will not lust after other women--or at least will actively fight a battle with this temptation...
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I've written a lot about what to do when you realize your husband watches porn, and why porn is so damaging to marriage--even if you watch it together. Today Dr. Wyatt Fisher, a Christian psychologist with tons of experience in actually treating porn addiction. Porn...
Female porn addicts--it's not an oxymoron. In fact, more and more women are becoming addicted to porn. It's not just a man's problem anymore. I've written before about how porn affects the male brain, but today, for Top 10 Tuesday, I want to look at it from a...