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...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 6, 2023 | Libido
Stinky and Kissing don’t go together. A while ago I started a series on kissing, and got sidetracked by some huge news stories in evangelicalism (like the terrible article up at The Gospel Coalition, or Jonathan Pokluda objectifying women in a sermon). I have...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 6, 2023 | Connecting, Series
Do you remember your pre-teen years when you used to dream of kissing your crush? In those days you likely couldn’t imagine much beyond kissing, but kissing was a BIG DEAL. All the romance movies ended when the couple had their first kiss. The culmination of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 12, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy
Kissing in marriage should be fun! But too often kissing stops once we’re married. We see it as foreplay, and many women don’t want to put a downpayment down on something they may not want to buy later, if you know what I mean. And many men don’t see...
