by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 11, 2025 | Libido, Podcasts
Is frequency of sex related to marital happiness? Like, does having more sex make your marriage better? Well, yes. And also no. It’s nuanced. And today Rebecca and I are going to look at the studies, and show you why our approach to sex, and our go-to advice,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 19, 2025 | Libido, Podcasts
Is it fair to call sex a need? We’re very much against obligation sex here at Bare Marriage–we’ve done research that has shown that the obligation sex message results in far worse marital and sexual outcomes, and contributes to abuse rates. But at...
by Rebecca Lindenbach | Nov 25, 2024 | Sexual Intimacy
Why are so many evangelical authors trying to convince married women not to have sexual boundaries? In episode 260 of the Bare Marriage podcast, that dropped last week, Rebecca and I had one of my favourite convos so far, when we looked at how too many evangelical...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 4, 2024 | Libido, Podcasts
“So you think it’s okay if women just don’t have sex, then?” Whenever we talk about how sex should be mutual, intimate, and pleasurable for both, and that the obligation sex message is toxic, the reply we get is something along these...
