sex Archive

  • Grondahl Restored 66

    Posted on August 18, 2013 | No Comments
    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.    This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl. – See more at: https://dovesandserpents.org/2013/06/grondahl-restored-61/#sthash.wtM6u3PT.dpuf

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  • 28 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “Truth of Consequences”

    Posted on November 19, 2012 | No Comments
    "She called me at 11:00 on / Saturday night and asked if / I could have sex with her."

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  • Lena Dunham’s Sex Joke: A Missed Opportunity

    Posted on October 30, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Dunham's points about women's issues are worthy of serious discussion and consideration. But she undermines her credibility in the way she presents them. We still have a long way to go until women can be perceived as powerful without the cover of sexuality to make it "palatable."

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  • Teaching Sex: It Seemed Terrifying

    Posted on July 2, 2012 | 6 Comments
    When dating I thoroughly enjoyed cuddling, holding hands, and kissing. I felt guilty for just how much I enjoyed kissing and frightened by the emotions that were raging inside me

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  • Teaching Sex: Confronting Corianton

    Posted on June 19, 2012 | 6 Comments
    He came home weeping after meeting with the Lord's representative and feeling like he was dirt because he was told he was committing a sin . . .

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  • Teaching Sex: It’s Not the Stork

    Posted on June 15, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Sometimes, he would preface with, "do you really want to know, because you won't be able to un-know it."

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  • Teaching Sex: Sex Talk (Somewhat) Misremembered

    Posted on June 13, 2012 | 6 Comments
    My only hope now is that my son will also positively misremember my talk with him.

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  • Teaching Sex: On Reframing Negative Assumptions

    Posted on June 9, 2012 | 15 Comments
    It's time to get rid of the "sin next to murder" rhetoric: a closer reading of the text in Alma suggests that Corianton's real sin is religious hypocrisy, not simply sleeping around.

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  • Teaching Sex: Two Tables?

    Posted on June 7, 2012 | 7 Comments
    He walked forward and thrust in his hand. He pulled it back out to reveal . . . the centerfold from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue!

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  • Teaching Sex: My Body Can Do That?

    Posted on June 4, 2012 | 8 Comments
    I wondered what it would feel like to take my arousal from beginning to end, instead of cutting it off (as I had become quite adept at doing with my frisky teenage boyfriends).

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  • Teaching Sex: I Apologize

    Posted on June 2, 2012 | 8 Comments
    I apologize after sex. Yes, I literally say, "I'm sorry." Actually I have come a long way in recent years about uttering the actual phrase. . .

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  • Guest Post Invitation: It’s SEX Guest-Post Month

    Posted on May 23, 2012 | 9 Comments
    If we approach the question of sex from the perspective that it is our responsibility as parents to teach our kids how TO HAVE sex, how does that change things?

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  • Grondahl 14

    Posted on March 18, 2012 | No Comments
    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.    This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • 14 Dear Jack: Self-Love

    Posted on February 18, 2012 | 11 Comments
    We can and should make ethical and moral choices about our sexual behavior, but attaching that morality to perfectly healthy and normal biological responses or our fugitive thoughts is a mistake.

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  • SexRead

    Posted on May 10, 2011 | 19 Comments
    Since I pretty much like tackling any topic through reading, it should be no surprise that I like reading about sex.

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  • The Birds and the Bees, Mormon Style

    Posted on February 2, 2011 | 31 Comments
    Did you have a birds-and-the-bees talk when you were a kid? Mine occurred in fourth grade the night before they showed the puberty video at school. My dad came up to my room, pulled out a legal pad, drew a very simple drawing of . […]

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