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Reader Question: Am I Being Selfish To Want to Marry a Virgin?
Is it selfish to want to marry a virgin? Every Monday I like to post a Reader Question and take a stab at answering it. Today I’ve actually asked a friend of mine, Danielle Tate from Thrive Ministries,...
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Reader Question: Has My Sexual Past Doomed my Future Relationships?
If you’ve been promiscuous in the past, is your future marriage doomed? Every Monday I like to post a Reader Question and take a stab at answering it. This week’s question is all about the past: It...
View ArticleWhat If We’re Teaching Purity All Wrong?
What if the way that we’re teaching purity is really hurting kids? I’m just back from my walking tour of Ireland with my husband, and it was AMAZING! I’m hoping to do a post soon with some of our...
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7 Things the Purity Culture Failed to Teach Me
Growing up in the purity culture people can learn the wrong lessons about sex–and God. Here are 7 things one woman had to unlearn once she married: How can we raise our kids to have a healthy view of...
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Did You Survive “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”?
Like many parents of 90s kids, I once embraced I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Written by then-21-year-old Joshua Harris, it was all about how “dating” is dangerous and will wreck your ability to have a good...
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Reader Question: How Do I Get Over the Shame of Losing my Virginity?
If you lose your virginity in a one-night stand, how do you deal with the shame you feel? That’s a question I get quite a bit. And when I was writing The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex, one of the...
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Do We Need to Stop Using the Term “Virgin”?
“If you get raped, does that mean you’re not a virgin anymore?” That was one of the anonymous questions asked at a small group my 17-year-old daughter was at one summer. The adults leading the...
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Finally Reaching Orgasm Part 2: How One Reader Had a Breakthrough
What’s the next step if you’ve learned everything you can about how to have great sex, but your body isn’t getting with the program? Yesterday I shared the first half of a post that a reader sent me...
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Intimacy Before Marriage: It’s More Than Just Sex!
I’ve written at length on the blog about why we should wait until marriage for sex, and why God made sex just for marriage. But sometimes I fear that in all of our talk about saving sex for marriage...
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A Letter To All Those Who Feel They Have Lost Their Purity
Purity. Virginity. We have two words in English to use about someone who has never had sex, but we don’t have words to use for people who have never said a swear word; never cheated on their taxes;...
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