Hey friend, welcome to Job with Julie.

Before we head to the coffee shop, I want to let you know that registration for our spring online book studies is open.

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These groups meet weekly on Zoom and they're led by an authentic intimacy train leader

and include a live Q&A with the author of the book.

And a lot of times that's me, so I get to meet you on Zoom.

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Hi friend, I'm Julie Slattery, and this is Java with Julie, and thanks for being here with me.

This podcast is a listener-supported outreach of authentic intimacy, and ministry dedicated to helping people reclaim God's design for sexuality.

Well, in our conversation today, I'm going to be talking with Justin and Lindsay Holcomb about sexual abuse.

And friend, this is such an important conversation.

The research shows us that approximately one in four women and one in

six men will experience sexual abuse in their lifetime, one in five children before their 18th

birthday. Teenage women ages 16th and 19 are four times more likely than the general population

to be survivors of sexual assault. And this is happening

just all around us. If it hasn't happened to you, it has happened to somebody that you know.

Today we're going to give you a definition of sexual assault because there's so much confusion

around what it is and what it isn't. And our definition, I think, has been too narrow.

We're going to talk about consent.

How does age, emotional capacity to give consent, or even what we say out loud, change things?

And what if I consent in once, but I tried to stop repeated abuse and couldn't?

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