Welcome. Welcome to another Rational Faith's podcast episode. I'm Brian Dillman.

And I'm Brian Kessel.

Rational Face is a Mormon-based blog and podcast seeking to provide a safe, fair, and balanced space

to discuss the complexities, difficulties, and beauty of our Mormon tradition.

In an entertaining and informal way we're dedicated to exploring the vital, applicable,

and expansive topics that we're all wrestling with as Mormons

while simultaneously keeping Mormonism weird.

Yes indeed.

So, uh, Brian, do you know what today's topic is?

Yes and I'm a little nervous.

The reason you're nervous is because it is not the scripture podcast that we had advertised last time.

Yes.

We actually had a Dr. Fife contact us and she has a she has some seminars coming up and so we

wanted to do another Ask Dr. Fife episode and so Laurel and I sat and talked with Dr. Fife and while she answered some questions from listeners.

So I'm really excited about this.

This is a similar one that we've done before where we have all of these differing questions

that Dr. Fife is generously answering for us. So I think that these questions are all

really interesting and important to talk about, especially because

just in our culture in general talking about sex and especially for, I don't know'm listening to some of these questions that women are having and be

able to get good responses as well as just in general. Like for me it's always been something that I'm fairly uncomfortable with talking about and being able to have her come on and be able to respond to some of these questions I think is really valuable.

Yeah, I think this is one of the Mormon paradoxes that, where we actually have, we value sex and we think that it's important, you know, we teach that we don't have sex just to make babies but it's there to express love between a pair of spouses.

But we don't really ever talk about it.

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