by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 13, 2025 | Parenting Teens
What happens when we tell girls that “boys will want to push your sexual boundaries”? That’s one of the toxic teachings that we measured in both our books The Great Sex Rescue and She Deserves Better! If you haven’t read them yet, you should! This week...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 5, 2025 | Podcasts, Preparing for Marriage
Let’s talk about dating and finding a mate! This is the subject that Rebecca and I tend to avoid like the plague, because we feel very ill-equipped to talk on it. We both married very young; we didn’t spend a lot of time single; and to make it sound like...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 4, 2024 | Series, Sex
Is there really such a thing as “blue balls”? This month I want to start a new series on the blog called “Fact Checked it For You”, where we look up some of the most common outrageous claims made about sex, and see if they actually stand up to scrutiny. We’ll be...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 31, 2023 | Parenting Teens
Are we missing something if we save kissing for marriage? One of the tenets of purity culture was that all physical contact–even kissing–should be saved for marriage. It wasn’t just that sex is for marriage. It was that kissing was too. Some couples...