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Mormon Stories Podcast

301: LDS Women and Sexual Desire with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2011

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This workshop on LDS Women and Sexual Desire was delivered on September 23rd, 2011 by Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife. In this presentation, Jennifer speaks to LDS women about the cultural and psychological barriers to sexual desire, as well as how to shift one’s relationship to sexuality to make it more pleasurable and desirable.

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MormonStories.org Why do we do all this?

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Why are we so anxious about desire? Just give me your top of mind thoughts.

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What's frightening about wanting? And I'll say it in the microphone.

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You might not get what you want, you might not get it.

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Right, they might say no, then you have to confront the rejection and the disappointment.

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You may hurt someone's feelings very good, so my desires might be destructive or hurtful

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to somebody. Maybe they're wrong.

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Maybe they're wrong, that's a good one, right?

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I may want it, but I may be screwed up, right, and it will expose that I'm screwed up.

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So it's vulnerable because we're vulnerable to rejection and disappointment, we're vulnerable

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to exposure, right, that what we want is off base and we're vulnerable to having to confront

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whether or not it's hurtful, you know, whether it's just destructive to someone else.

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Any other thoughts about why wanting is makes us anxious?

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I think you guys got them actually.

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So it feels vulnerable and I think it's so much easier to demonstrate that someone should

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give you what you want than it is to own what you want.

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You can't control as someone said, you can't control, you can't make someone give you

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what you want.

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