A Christian Teenager’s Guide to Resisting Temptation
To the Church’s credit, I did not have premarital sex as a teenager. But there was also a lot of damage done.
A Letter to My Daughter (Should I Have One)
Wear your womanhood however you prefer. Wear it as a low-cut tank top and your short-shorts in the park, drinking lemonade.
Condom Nation
Those who drive sex education policies, it would seem, care more about ideology than accuracy—more about ideology, in fact, than effectiveness, teen moms, or lifelong diseases, either.
Sex: A Knowing
Daunted by the rightness of wrong, by the wrongness of right, by the thought that this is the nature of knowledge we inherit.
In a Day or Two
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hope for an afterlife like that—one where everything is shiny and my partner and I look like we’re thirty for the rest of our lives.
Look at the Women
You want to talk about how to teach young girls to love themselves? Or to believe that their bodies are temples, and not objects of shame?
Sex: A Reading List
Nagoski takes a thoroughly researched, science-based approach to dispel myths about female sexuality and to explain how the body and mind are inextricable in all things to do with relationships.
Virginity: An Education
Chapter 8: Religious Studies II
“There is no such thing as a condom for the heart. Once you have had sex, you are never quite the same.”
-“Pure Again,” Focus on the Family
Call for Audition Submissions
We have several openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love for you to audition!
Trees and Clouds
In a past life, I would have said that I would rather be a cloud.
