by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 1, 2021 | Libido
I’d like to begin a longer, ongoing conversation today about arousal non-concordance. To begin, a quick story. As a teen I always won the game Balderdash. Remember that game? You get a bizarre weird word, and everyone has to make up a definition for it, and then...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 6, 2021 | Abuse
Sometimes the way that Christian resources talk about sexual coercion and abuse makes me want to cry. When writing The Great Sex Rescue, we read the 10 bestselling marriage books (we excluded 3 because they didn’t talk enough about sex) and 6 iconic sex books....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 20, 2021 | Sex
We’ve been taking a romp through history looking at views of sex in different periods. We’ve looked at the Roman world; the medieval period; and the Victorian period. Today we’re jumping forward to the 1970s. On the podcast this week we’ll be...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 26, 2021 | Parenting Teens
What happens when we tell girls that “boys will want to push your sexual boundaries”? We’re in the middle of our debunking series, where we look at things that are commonly taught in evangelical circles, and encourage the church to get it right!...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 25, 2021 | Abuse, Parenting Teens
When research is poorly done, and then that research is used to “prove” something in Christian circles, everything can go awry. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be telling you some of the things we learned in our survey of 20,000 women last year,...