by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 21, 2024 | Podcasts, Pornography
I’m tired of being called uptight for not wanting pornified views of sex. The amazing Gisele Pelicot, who is genuinely a hero, has famously said “shame must switch sides.” She’s the woman whose husband arranged for almost 100 men to rape her...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 10, 2024 | Podcasts
What if purity culture really did a number on you? We talk a lot here at Bare Marriage about how harmful much of the purity culture rhetoric was: It increased women’s chances of marrying an abuser; increased the chances she’d be sexually harassed or...
by Camden Morgante | Oct 9, 2024 | Faith
Do you need to recover from purity culture? This is a first for me–but I wrote a foreword to a book! Dr. Camden Morgante’s first book Recovering from Purity Culture launches next week, and I’m so excited about it. Dr. Camden is a clinical...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 31, 2023 | Parenting Teens
I read a story about how a youth group culture contributed to a young woman feeling guilty about her own assaults. I’d like to share it today, because it fits in to everything we’ve been talking about with She Deserves Better, our new book that launches...