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Episode 301: The 4 Categories of Euphemisms about Sex--that All Drive Us Batty!

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Send us a text We're diving into the euphemisms used in Christian marriage books and by evangelical pastors, and when you translate them into actual language, it gets real creepy real fast. From Kevin Leman's "Mr. Happy" to Josh Butler's semen theology, these authors hide harmful messages behind flowery or vague language. When authors tell women to "give him a gift" while she's bleeding heavily or recovering from childbirth, they're actually telling her to perform sex acts while in pain...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregor 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 daughter Rebecca Lindenbach. Hello, hello. We are going to talk about euphemisms. Yes. And this is going to be a fun one.

0:25.9

This is. This is one that like we, uh, we figured out on a walk that we were on the other night.

0:32.1

This is the one that sounded really great as a concept on a walk. And the more that I'm thinking

0:37.2

about the things I'm going to say in front of my mother on the internet, it's getting less and less great.

0:44.2

So here's the concept.

0:45.9

Okay.

0:46.9

Concept is, a couple weeks back now at the point this comes out, you posted a series of images to Substack and social media

0:56.6

where there was this quote about how women following their husband's imperfect leadership

1:01.4

can show them the love of Christ. It gives us a taste of the leadership to come where we're

1:06.5

with Jesus our bridegroom. But like the question is, and then they put it on this picture of

1:10.5

this like, happy loving family. In this field. But like the question is, and then they put it on this picture of this like, happy loving family.

1:12.7

In a field.

1:14.0

But what does imperfect leadership mean?

1:15.9

Yes.

1:16.4

Right?

1:16.8

It doesn't mean laughing in a field.

1:19.0

No.

1:19.4

And so I took the same quote and I put it on a series of pictures, including, you know, one

1:24.6

where a man is angrily yelling, one where a man is sitting on the couch while his wife is vacuuming while holding a baby, you know, one where a man has messed up the finances, one where a man has a clenched up fist. Yeah, like we're actual imperfect leadership kind of ideas. Like what could the options of what the imperfect leadership could have been? When you put that quote over top of those images, suddenly it seems very, very different.

1:45.9

So we thought, oh, it's like, oh, yes.

1:48.7

So we thought, what about with sex?

1:51.5

What if we just translated a lot of euphemisms that are in these books by using the actual terms of what's being asked or what's being talked about because when

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