Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila R. Gregwar from Bear Marriage.com, where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

And I am joined today by my husband Keith.

Hey, everybody.

And we want to start this podcast by saying thank you to a special group of people.

As always, our patrons who make our life wonderful and provide my safe space on the internet.

I can go there this week.

I went and said,

you know what?

I just feel like I've made so many mistakes lately,

and I just need some encouragement.

And they were wonderful.

And they give just even just $5 a month,

and that helps fund a lot of our expenses,

including our research and a lot of our social media team.

So it's really, really, really important. So thank you to them. And if you want to join, it is just $5 a month. You can just go to patreon.com

slash bear marriage. And the link is in the podcast notes. And then, of course, if you want to

give more, we also have a nonprofit within the United States, the Good Fruit Faith Initiative

of the Bosco Foundation,

and the link is there too. Today, though, we are going to do that evidence-based part of what we do.

And every now and then, every couple of months, I like to do a podcast where we talk about some

new studies that have dropped. Because we really do like to talk about peer-reviewed studies.

We are peer-reviewed now. So back in the fall,

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