What truth is there in purity culture?

And how did it go so wrong?

Hello and welcome to the Pillow Talks podcast.

We're your host, Vanessa.

And Zander Marin.

I'm a sex therapist with over 20 years of experience.

And I'm just a regular dude. We share

the ups and downs in our relationship while giving you step-by-step techniques for improving yours.

Make sure you subscribe for your weekly double date full of totally doable sex tips, practical

relationship advice, hilarious and honest stories of what really goes on behind closed bedroom doors and so much

more. It's the sex education you wish you'd had. Hello, friends. So we have been getting a ton of

requests lately for an episode about purity culture and overcoming religious guilt and shame around sex. But we already made an

episode. It just happened to be one of our earlier episodes. So we decided to do something very

special and re-air our eighth ever pillow talks episode. We were actually looking at the episode and thinking like,

okay, well, maybe we should update this. But as we were looking through what we had recorded,

we kept thinking, like, this was a really good episode as it is. I don't think there's anything

new that we would add or improve upon. Like, it was a great episode. It just happened to be one

of those super early ones that most people

aren't scrolling all the way back to find it. We have so many episodes like that. So we decided

to re-release that episode today so you can get all of our best tips, techniques, and advice

for overcoming religious guilt and shame around sex. Now, this was only our eighth episode ever.

We were still total newbies to podcasting. We had not upgraded our sound equipment. We were not

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