meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Bare Marriage

Episode 298: Purity Culture, Date Rape, and Porn: plus Joash Thomas and the Justice of Jesus

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Send us a text Two major studies today prove what we've been saying: purity culture makes people unable to recognize marital and date rape as actual rape, and male porn use hurts women regardless of their attitude toward it—though religious women suffer more because of the scripts we've been given. Then I interview Joash Thomas about his book The Justice of Jesus, where he explains how Western Christianity lost biblical justice because colonizers taught a purely "spiritual" gospel to be...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregwar from Bear Marriage.com

0:14.5

where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

0:18.6

And I am joined today by my daughter, Rebecca Lindenbach.

0:21.5

Hello. And we are going to talk evidence. Yes, we have. You guys always love when we do this. We found two new research articles. And by new, I mean, they've been out in the last five years. Yeah. They're not all going to be two months old guys. New research is new research. Okay. stuff we haven't talked about yet.

0:35.6

Exactly.

0:36.0

Which goes along with what we do here at bare marriage.

0:39.8

So we got one on porn.

0:41.0

We've got one on, research is new research. But stuff we haven't talked about yet, which goes along with what we do

0:38.0

here at bare marriage. So we've got one on porn. We've got one on rape culture myths and purity

0:44.6

culture and all kinds of fun stuff. And we're going to tie it all together at the end. We are. And then I

0:48.4

have an interview with Joash Thomas with his new book, The Justice of Jesus, coming up later too. So super fun podcast. This is

0:56.0

episode number 298. Do you know what that means, Rebecca? Oh, wow. We're only two episodes

1:00.6

away from number 300. We are. And so I've had some requests from our patron group for episode

1:07.6

300 that we're going to do some best of Becca. Yes. Because you've had some pretty funny moments.

1:12.9

So we're compiling those behind the scenes.

1:14.9

So get ready for that.

1:16.0

And remember patrons when you're listening, if there is a clip from me that you want to have included,

1:21.3

even if it was from a live event that's still in the Facebook group, make sure that you go

1:26.3

and put that information in the

1:28.0

pinned post on the patron Facebook group. And if you want to get in on the fun, you can join our

1:33.1

patron group. Yes, you can. Just patreon.com slash bear marriage. The link is in the podcast notes. And for as

1:38.9

little as $5 a month, you can help what we do, help support what we do, make sure that our research

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sheila Gregoire, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sheila Gregoire and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.