sexuality Archive

399August 18, 2013
This Must Stop: A Call to End Sexually Invasive Interviews Between Priesthood Leaders and Minors in the LDS Church

TRIGGER WARNING: sexual and spiritual abuse When I was 13-years-old, I was violated in a very personal way. A middle-aged...
6July 2, 2012
Teaching Sex: It Seemed Terrifying

When dating I thoroughly enjoyed cuddling, holding hands, and kissing. I felt guilty for just how much I enjoyed kissing...
24June 20, 2012
Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut

Last week I read this comment in an online Facebook group: “My daughter’s handout from Young Women’s today: Your greatest...
3June 15, 2012
Teaching Sex: It’s Not the Stork

Sometimes, he would preface with, “do you really want to know, because you won’t be able to un-know it.”
6June 13, 2012
Teaching Sex: Sex Talk (Somewhat) Misremembered

My only hope now is that my son will also positively misremember my talk with him.
15June 9, 2012
Teaching Sex: On Reframing Negative Assumptions

It’s time to get rid of the “sin next to murder” rhetoric: a closer reading of the text in Alma...
7June 7, 2012
Teaching Sex: Two Tables?

He walked forward and thrust in his hand. He pulled it back out to reveal . . . the centerfold...
8June 4, 2012
Teaching Sex: My Body Can Do That?

I wondered what it would feel like to take my arousal from beginning to end, instead of cutting it off...
8June 2, 2012
Teaching Sex: I Apologize

I apologize after sex. Yes, I literally say, “I’m sorry.” Actually I have come a long way in recent years...
9May 23, 2012
Guest Post Invitation: It’s SEX Guest-Post Month

If we approach the question of sex from the perspective that it is our responsibility as parents to teach our...
84October 16, 2011
Rotten to the Core

The Sanctuary may seem like an unusual place to discuss Facebook status post trends, but recently, I was so disturbed...
7September 6, 2011
Book Lover

I’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it...
4July 28, 2011
We Are Pioneers

As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up...
10July 21, 2011
The Gluttonous Baby

For as long as humans have made objects, there have been baby dolls. It’s an almost universal phenomenon that...
1March 6, 2011
Mormon Matters Podcast

I don’t know what I was thinking, but I (Heather) accepted John Dehlin’s invitation to participate in his first re-tooled...
8February 9, 2011
The Trouble with Immaculate Contraception …

… is that there are always exceptions. Love to Jesus and Mo.
48February 9, 2011
What do a burger, a rare steak, and a gift all have in common?

A couple years ago, I sat in a Relief Society lesson at church about modesty. According to the rumor mill,...
31February 2, 2011
The Birds and the Bees, Mormon Style

Did you have a birds-and-the-bees talk when you were a kid? Mine occurred in fourth grade the night before they...
45January 26, 2011
Forbidden Fruit

So, I just finished reading an absolutely fascinating book called Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American...
12December 4, 2010
Penelope’s List

Is the desire to be happy a human universal? Or is it just another one of those preferences that arise...
34October 9, 2010
Forgotten

Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul laments Humbert Humbert. The recollection of Lolita draws...