by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 15, 2024 | Parenting Teens
Do teen girls have a sex drive? I’m desperately hoping that you answer, “Of course!” Now, obviously not all teen girls will be sexual (asexuals do make up a small part of the population). But the idea that teen girls are somehow not sexual, while teen boys are...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 14, 2023 | Parenting Teens
Let’s use a real-life example of purity culture double standards: Brio Magazine Yesterday on the podcast Rebecca and I read excerpts from old copies of Focus on the Family’s Brio magazine, aimed at teen girls 12-16. We wanted you to hear first hand what...
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 | May 24, 2023 | Parenting Teens
When you’re a teen, it’s normal to have sexual feelings. In fact, sexual feelings are a normal part of life for adults too! We have sex dreams (the content of which can sometimes be quite alarming). We can feel attraction to people. We can feel...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 13, 2023 | Podcasts
Have you ever heard the J.O.Y acronym? It’s supposed to sum up our attitude towards how we live our lives, and it stands for: Jesus first Others second You last This is very much what we’re taught in church–that we come last. Yet Jesus said that...