Hi, my name is Ruby and I'm Dr. Jennifer Finlason Fife's assistant and you're

listening to the Dr Finlason 5 podcast archive. The podcast you'll be

listening to today is called Ask a Mormon Sex Therapist Part Five, originally produced and published

by Rational Faith's Podcast.

Welcome and we hope you enjoy the episode. In this episode Laurel and I talk with Dr. Jennifer Finlason

Fife about two questions that came up. One is a concern that a listener had about the teaching going on in her ward of

chastity for the young women and in the to put it in the questioner's words the idea of the

young women's president or the young women's presidency was to scare the

crap out of them so they never make a mistake or never dare make a mistake.

And so that's one approach but Dr. Fife, Dr. Jennifer Finlison Fife offers some other ways to talk about sexuality for teenagers, especially

teenage girls.

The second question is one we haven't dealt with at all

yet I don't think which it's about pornography and how to deal with

pornography. I've heard on I've heard this talked about in other

podcasts and the takeaway message seemed to be don't shame because you'll end up

in a you'll end up putting someone into a shame cycle and they'll soothe themselves

when they're feeling really bad by consuming more pornography and then they'll

feel bad about that and so they'll so they'll suit themselves again and it's very hard for them to get out of that cycle.

In this discussion, Dr. Jen offers some really thoughtful ways to at least think about pornography, a way to think

about it more fully than good and evil, right?

And also as a content warning for listeners in that discussion,

we don't focus on a lot, but we do bring up the idea of pornography

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