Women are people too, The Great Sex Rescue implores, and women’s sexual pleasure and needs matter just as much as men’s. Women’s experiences have been largely overlooked or ignored, while women are seen as tools to help get men what they want.” –The Great Sex Rescue “Sex has been taught primarily through male lens mostly by male authors and by male speakers at marriage conferences. Finally, they applied their rubric to the top 13 best-selling evangelical sex and marriage books to uncover problematic teachings.
From these findings, the authors developed a rubric to rate harmful or helpful messages in three areas: infidelity/lust, sex as pleasure, and mutuality. Next, they analyzed secular peer-reviewed research on what leads to healthy marriages and healthy sex lives. Then they followed up their survey with focus groups and one-on-one interviews. To uncover the effects of evangelical teachings, the authors surveyed over 20,000 women. In The Great Sex Rescue, Sheila, Rebecca, and Joanna ask the question, “Do our evangelical resources for sex and marriage point readers to healthy relationship dynamics or unhealthy ones?” I even had the opportunity to write an article about teaching children shame-free sexuality for her blog! What I am trying to do with my writing and research on purity culture, Sheila has done on ALL evangelical Christian teachings about sexuality. Sheila is a role model and inspiration to me. Now she is joined by her daughter Rebecca, who brings a fresh and fiery perspective on gender equality, and Joanna, a statistician who no doubt serves as the brain behind the book’s research. She is a champion for equality between men and women in the bedroom and advocates for sexual pleasure and enjoyment as part of a Christian marriage. For over 17 years, Sheila has shared her wisdom about Christian sexuality and marriage in her numerous books, podcasts, blog, and speaking engagements. Many readers will be familiar with Sheila’s personal and blunt style from her popular blog, To Love, Honor, and Vacuum. From the beginning, Sheila’s dedication and apology to Aunt Matilda show us her (and her co-author’s) commitment, heart, and passion for the message of their book. The reason for Sheila’s apology is the entire subject of the book: evangelical teachings about sex and marriage as revealed in the top best-selling Christian sex books.
Who is this Aunt Matilda? What is her story? And what is Sheila apologizing to Aunt Matilda for? Joanna Sawatsky and Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach share beautiful hopes and blessings for their children.īut it is Sheila Wray Gregoire’s dedication to “ The Act of Marriage’s Aunt Matilda and all the women like her” that is most curious. Like many books, The Great Sex Rescue opens with a dedication.
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There is only One who has complete authority, endorsed both by conscience and Christ, and that’s God himself through His Word.įather, help me remember that your truth has the only true authority and you are a builder of men.The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky Others are pretty good, like wives and good advisers and counselors. Some filters that men have are horrible, for example, their feelings in the moment. In a culture where there is no absolute truth and everybody’s truth is valid and should be respected, how can you hold to a God-centered position?Įvery man has a filter for his decision-making in the moment when it comes to porn, when it comes to sexual thinking and practice, when it comes to others, when it comes to marriage issues and responses, when it comes to relationships, when it comes to leadership. When your backs are against the wall and push comes to shove, who or what determines good or evil in your life? Whatever or whomever determines good or evil, right from wrong, moral and immoral – that is your source of authority. Your word, Lord, is eternal it stands firm in the heavens.
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