by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 18, 2023 | Abuse
Is all obligation sex necessarily rape? As we’ve been talking about obligation sex this month, starting with 10 things you need to know about obligation sex, and how obligation sex affects a woman’s body, there’s a conversation that keeps coming up on social media:...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 28, 2023 | Parenting Teens
What happens when teenage girls don’t understand consent and coercion? They often blame themselves for their own date rape. In our consent chapter for She Deserves Better, we told Kay’s story–that all too many of you will relate to. Kay was making...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 30, 2022 | Sexual Intimacy
If we want sex to be awesome, then we need to be able to feel like sex is for us too. We need to feel like we matter. Sex is supposed to be mutual, intimate, and pleasurable for both, and mutuality and intimacy means that you are both coming to the bedroom willingly,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 28, 2022 | Abuse
If your husband has been coercing you into sex, how do you get him to understand what he’s done? That’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? We’re in the middle of a series on what to do if one, or both, of you have dug your sex life into a...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 23, 2022 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
You will never have a healthy sex life if you don’t have autonomy over your own body. You just can’t. Unless you are free to say yes or to say no, desire can’t build, because desire and obligation are at odds with each other. Just as you can’t...
