Sex Shame Faith

Sex. For a three-letter word, it carries an incredible amount of baggage. Pleasure. Love. Desire. Intimacy. Temptation. Marriage. Sin. Shame. For many people raised in Christian homes, those last two words became attached to sex surprisingly early. Don’t have sex. Don’t think about sex. Don’t look at someone sexually. Cover your body. Control your desires. Save yourself. And depending on the church or family in which you were raised, you may have received another message…even if nobody actually said it out loud:   Good Christians aren’t supposed to enjoy sex too much. But here’s the question that will guide this… Read More »