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Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

96. Derek Hagey | Addressing Pornography Use in Marriage

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5670 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pornography use is a difficult and very important topic, and the objective of this episode is to help provide hope and support through available resources for women who’s spouse has used or uses pornography. Our guest Derek Hagey is a FamilySearch employee, Marriage and Family professor, and one of the subject matter experts who worked on Church’s Addressing Pornography website. He discusses the impact pornography use can have on ourselves and our marriages, how we can address issues and emotions surrounding pornography use, and support and resources for additional help.
 Resources:
 Addressing Pornography Website: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/addressing-pornography?lang=eng
His Grace episode - There Is No Limit to God's Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpcUrP0gahw 
Recovering from the Trap of Pornography - President Oaks https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2015/10/recovering-from-the-trap-of-pornography?lang=eng Transcript: https://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/2021-03-0096-96-derek-hagey-addressing-pornography-use-in-marriage-eng.pdf

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

0:11.6

You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women and men of faith today.

0:16.9

I'm Carly Geimann.

0:18.2

And I'm Shailen Back. We're your co-hosts.

0:20.4

Today, we're excited to welcome Derek Hagee to the studio as our guest.

0:23.5

Derek, welcome.

0:24.5

Thank you.

0:25.2

I'm grateful to be here.

0:27.1

As a brief introduction to our guest, Derek has a master's and a PhD in marriage and family therapy and has worked for family services for about 10 years and is currently a program manager.

0:41.5

Derek was one of the subject matter experts who helped with the church's addressing pornography website, which we'll link to in this episode.

0:44.4

Derek has also taught marriage and family related classes at grad and master's levels since 2008,

0:49.8

one of his current courses being infidelity and sex addiction, just as an example.

0:54.5

Derek and his wife Morgan have seven kids, and we are just really looking forward to talking with you today, Derek.

1:00.6

Thank you.

1:01.6

Now that you've gotten to know a little bit about our guest, we wanted to introduce our topic.

1:05.6

We've received some suggestions for and also questions about doing an episode addressing pornography use. And for this

1:11.9

episode, we've chosen to focus on navigating pornography use in marriage relationships, which we

1:17.4

know weighs heavily on the hearts and minds of many of our listeners. Pornography use is a difficult

1:22.5

but very important topic. And our objective today is to help provide hope and support through

1:26.9

available resources

1:27.8

for women whose spouses have used or used pornography. And we also want to say it's often assumed

1:34.0

that men are the ones who are using pornography, but we'll also talk about when women are the ones

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