The Link Between Purity Kids and Sexual Dysfunction

Spiritual and sexual abuse symptoms run along parallel lines. These are the kids who signed the contracts.

Listen to Dr. Sellers’ story of realizing that teen years in purity culture lead to sexual dysfunction in marriage (and her hopeful ideas and recommended reading on how to overcome dysfunction).

In Freedom Builders, we often hear our friends recount their families or friends asking them to “pipe down” about spiritual abuse, or shame-based cultures like Dr. Sellers mentions. No blood was shed, no bruises on your arms, pipe down! Since there was no physical coercion (though, often, there was) you just need to forgive and move on.

Our video today explains why we need to treat shame-based cultures and sexual abuse with similar caution and focus on recovery. The symptoms are the same, and these two kinds of abuse often come twined together.

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Click here for week one on being mismatched in lovemaking. Click here for week two on abuse recovery.

What’s this summer series all about?

This summer, I’ll be sharing short videos taken from my two hour Emerald City interview on “Shame, Intimacy and Sex Ed” with Christian sex therapist, Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers. You’ve already seen her at RubySlippers’ posts and interviews. See part one.

Because of Dr. Sellers practical concern that Christians understand that God created erotic desires, Tina is one of the best sources I’ve found in helping me navigate the pillow talk between me and my husband.

Dr. Sellers is a wife, mother, professor, founder of ThankGodForSex.org, certified sex therapist, and licensed family and marriage therapist. Those last two are a dynamic duo of credentials that are rarely seen together. And the lack of professionals who practice both family/marriage and sex therapies is a big problem for those of us who want thriving marriages and thriving sex lives. Thank God for Tina!  I particularly love the way she lives a sexual intimacy that she teaches (My Love List for My Husband . . . And Why Gratefulness is Good for the Heart). Follow her blog and thoughts @TinaSSellers.

I will share a new video every week this summer! Watch the 2-5 minute videos that seem helpful to you, leave the rest.