Elephants in the Room Part 3 - Addressing Broken Sexual Behavior with Jay Stringer

[@MsDanaGerous]

Such a powerful episode! Please, please bring Jay back again.

[@taliaruley7975]

Amazing on every level! Keep shining the light to help ourselves and others find TRUTH!!!

[@ravynhawkins6850]

Thank you, Jay. I've often felt angry about a "man controlling my self life" where I feel like I'm waiting or "begging" and then been shamed about a lack of submission or not knowing my role.

[@jenniferridley3601]

This. This is what's saving my life right now. 💜

[@lgzader]

Thank you for pointing me to your KZbin podcast!!! I listen to you on Spotify BUT LOVE to see the connection when possible and this is exciting. THANK YOU (both) ALSO for this episode This podcast was powerful and safe and amazing. It gave me thinking points. I found myself allowing my shoulders to drop and my breath to release. I have more question.... more ahah moments and more desire to research and think and learn for myself, and my children as they grow.

[@vickiel]

Wow. Having your light and desire for life calling darkness to hate and use us. I felt that.

[@laurapinner7498]

I’m so grateful I grew up in the United Methodist Church.. There literally was a “human sexuality camp for parents and their teens learned about what sex is like how desire isn’t sinful etc. I think that’s pretty amazing! Instead of shaming kids and adults alike for having feelings that’s a part of our God-given blessings.

[@jenniferhunt7788]

I was told as a preteen that only sluts wear black. I was also not allowed to wear a two piece swimsuits. I felt so ashamed of everything sexual and still feel uncomfortable in a lot of ways. Thanks for this podcast.

[@Detroit-Jen]

Wow! That ending! Don’t reduce your beauty!!

[@RachelDillin]

Thank you for this. I feel like I was emotionally abused by the way we were taught about sex. I spent more than a decade feeling like a bad person.

[@ritcha02]

Did I miss the David Sedaris pod somehow?

[@leonoreburciaga2023]

Sorry Chick, I read "I kissed dating goodbye" and it did not convey that dating was dirty and a sin....this is a blatant untruth or perhaps you just never read the book.

[@wilcoxs19901]

You have misrepresented what it DID say and what Jen said. It conveyed that in order to avoid sexual sin, dating must be stopped. Dating is different from courting, for which he advocated. He definitely preached against casual dating as the way to stay "sexually pure." Harris renounced his support of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" in 2018. He cancelled the publishing of his book, which had sold over 1.2 million copies, writing in an op-ed for USA TODAY that "that the ideas in my book weren’t just naïve, they often caused harm...Its basic premise was that the best way to avoid premarital sex was to stop dating altogether," he wrote of the book in 2018.

[@lauraberg6872]

Dating was considered a lesser option, so yes, courting was considered the better option. It did place a huge stigma for some folks who applied Harris' book like a scripture