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The Naked Truth about the Christian Purity Movement
The “Christian” Purity Movement is a focus on virginity prior to marriage. It is a focus on “purity” and a focus on not doing sexual behaviors and not having sexual thoughts prior to marriage. It...
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TODAY’S PORN … What ALL Adults, Teens and Parents NEED to Understand About...
Recently I have met more and more people whose lives have been captured by internet porn. They describe themselves compulsively preoccupied, seeped in cycles of shame and secrecy, and for many men,...
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The Power of Love and the Silent Assault in the Christian Church
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.” Maya Angelou I just came off of 5 days of pure bliss with our four kids – all in their 20’s – all with their Sweetheart’s and our...
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To All the Waiting, Struggling, Ashamed Virgins …
I have had the privilege over the last two weeks to read the dissertation of a brilliant woman who has been studying how adult conservative Christians in Northern Ireland manage their sexuality and...
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Do You Tell Your Kids the Truth? (about sex)
I grew up in a household where both my parents did anger in big and expressive ways. As luck would have it, I was an introverted, happy-go-lucky, but sensitive kid. This combo meant I learned very...
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Are You “At Home” in Your Body? An interview …
Several months ago, I was interviewed by Jonalyn Fincher at Soulation on the impact of religious sexual shame on our ability to be ‘at home’ in our bodies and with our sexuality and sexual longing. I...
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Making Sex Ed Easy …. #1 in a 4 Part Blog Series: 12 Guidelines for...
Being a parent is a humbling endurance event … every day. One minute it can be incredibly rewarding and the next incredibly frustrating. So often when my kids were little I felt like I was flying by...
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Making Sex-Ed Easy … #2 in a Blog Series: Parenting Preschoolers … H.E.L.P!
Preschoolers, little ones ages 3 to 5, are the epitome of sensual and curious little creatures! During this time they develop a strong sense of themselves as a boy or a girl and what that means to the...
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Making Sex Ed Easy …. # 4 in a Blog Series: Parenting 9 – 12 Year Olds
Let’s begin this final (long …) post in this series with first talking a bit about puberty to get us all on the same page. Puberty is the time frame when the body changes from that of a child to …...
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How the Purity Movement Causes Symptoms of Sexual Abuse
I put the paper down. I was 15 papers in with 17 to go – sexual autobiography assignments of my graduate family therapy students. It was the second paper I had read in the last two hours of a young...
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