From Sexual Destruction to Godly Freedom: One Woman’s Story

Posted on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

I am humbly blessed to have Tamara Mapp guest blogging today.

She shares profoundly with such raw transparency about her sexually destructive past — and how God redeemed that brokenness, as well as her marriage, in what seems like insurmountable circumstances.

3 Reasons to Let Your Husband Undress You

Posted on Monday, February 27th, 2012

I was having a conversation with someone recently about how powerful it can be for a wife to allow her husband to undress her before sex.

I realize for some of you, your guard went up when you read the headline. I’ve heard from enough women’s hearts to know there are indeed reasons behind this.

Hormones and Sex: What You Need to Know

Posted on Friday, February 17th, 2012

I’m not a doctor by any stretch of the imagination, but I am a wife who happens to read a lot about sex (not to mention have a lot of sex).

And I am a woman. And I have been pregnant and given birth.

So I guess those things give me a little bit of wisdom to discuss this whole matter of hormones and how they impact sexual intimacy.

From Sexual Brokenness to Authentic Sexual Intimacy: One Reader’s Story

Posted on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Our post today comes from one of my readers, Zinnada Hodges, who shares so genuinely about her own journey.

This post is so powerful.

If you have ever harbored skewed perspectives about sex, struggled with body image or simply been too tired to have sex, her story will resonate with you.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat? A Follow Up Post on the “Golden Shower”

Posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Let me just say, I had no idea that one post would generate so much dialogue.

In the post What If My Husband Wants to Do Something Sexually That I Find Degrading, I wrote about the sexual act referred to as a “golden shower” or “golden bath.”

What if My Husband Wants To Do Something Sexually That I Find Degrading?

Posted on Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Recently, someone anonymously asked me how to handle “golden showers” — a sexual act she found degrading.

While I wasn’t familiar initially with the term, I was familiar with the act itself.

Wives Who Are Sexually Refused

Posted on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

I’m humbly blessed to have Kentucky Colonel of A Grown Up Marriage posting today, looking closer at something that isn’t discussed often — wives who are sexually refused.
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The Secret to Stopping the Body Image War

Posted on Saturday, June 11th, 2011

I’ve been taking a women’s Bible study on marriage.

After class one day, a few of us women were talking about body image — and what it does to a wife’s confidence (or more often, lack thereof) when she has sex with her husband.

Modesty is Destroying Your Sexual Intimacy

Posted on Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Is it possible for a Christian wife to be sexually confident — to love sex, to get crazy with passion beneath the sheets with the man to whom she pledged her life? Well, certainly it’s possible. Anything’s possible. But that’s not really the issue, is it?

3 Things You Should Know About Your Husband’s Penis

Posted on Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

So, anyway, I was cruising through my email in-box the other day, mindlessly deleting all the spam for penis enlargement pills, when it occurred to me that this obsession with penis size is just plain ridiculous.