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Bare Marriage

Episode 319: Did Purity Culture Cause Developmental Trauma--and Kill Libido?

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

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

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail What if the reason so many women struggle with desire, arousal, and orgasm has nothing to do with their bodies—and everything to do with what they were taught before they even wanted to be sexual? In this episode, Rebecca and I pull together research and real-life stories to trace a thread that runs from how we raise our daughters, to what happens on the wedding night, to why so many women are secretly faking it. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: To Heal or Harm: Scripture's Use as Pois...

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0:00.0

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

0:16.0

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

0:19.6

marriage. And I'm joined by

0:20.9

my daughter Rebecca Lindenbach. Hello, hello. And we are going to talk about how to help our daughters

0:25.9

especially develop a healthy view of sexuality as they grow up. And this is going to be an experiment.

0:34.8

Okay. Which always makes me super comfortable to hear. Because what I do is like,

0:41.1

I get sent really interesting stuff and I'm like, oh, I really, really want to use that somewhere.

0:45.9

Yeah. But sometimes it's like there's not enough for an entire podcast. I'm not sure what to do

0:49.5

with it. And I realized in looking at three or four different things today, there's a thread.

1:06.1

There's a thread that runs through them all. I'm going to believe there's thread. I'm going to try to create a story out of these things that are all going to flow. And maybe the thread will be the friends that we make along the way.

1:12.7

This is kind of like what Rebecca and Joanna did with each of our love and respect episodes.

1:16.3

The docu-series is like, what is the story we're trying to tell in this episode?

1:20.0

And if you haven't seen that docu-series, it released last month.

1:21.7

And it did really well.

1:23.6

We're very happy with it.

1:24.5

We got some great feedback.

1:26.0

So do check that out.

1:27.3

The links in the podcast notes.

1:33.0

Yes. And of course, it was the money, the donations from all of you that made that happen.

1:37.5

So thank you to everyone who donated to the Good Fruit Faith Initiative. And thank you especially to our patrons,

1:42.6

who just are there for us in our Facebook group, who get lots of extra perks.

1:48.0

I think they're going through. They have a, Joanna's been in all in 2026 since December,

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