When He Deliberately Ignores Your Pleasure: What to Do When Sex Has Become One-Sided

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 9, 2022 | Making Sex Feel Good

Sex is supposed to be mutual and pleasurable for both. Your pleasure is supposed to matter. Unfortunately, though, we have a 47 point orgasm gap among evangelicals, meaning that 95% of men report almost always or always reaching orgasm during a sexual encounter,...

Do Conservative Evangelicals Have Better Sex and Less Abuse? Our Response to Josh Howerton

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 7, 2022 | Abuse, Making Sex Feel Good, Research, Theology of Marriage and Sex

I’ve got an awesome example of how stats can be misused today! And why it’s important when we hear someone who isn’t trained in statistics using studies to “prove” their point, when the point sounds like a stretch, to actually check their...

PODCAST: Is Sex a “Yes Space” for Men? And What Does that Do to Women’s Libido?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 2, 2022 | Podcasts

Have we made sex–and marriage–into a “Yes Space” for men? And if so, how does this affect libido? It’s been a while since Rebecca and I recorded a podcast where we just talked about what we wanted to talk about, rather than having...

Sexual Pleasure: Why Equality of Effort Won’t Get Us There

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 10, 2022 | Libido, Making Sex Feel Good

Just a super quick post today on why “equality” sometimes misses the boat when it comes to sexual pleasure. I use Tuesdays either to take a day off from writing the blog, or to share something super quick that’s on my mind and I just want to write it...

The “Let’s Go to Dinner” Saga–and Why Women May Not Want Sex

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 14, 2022 | Libido