From Purity Culture to Pure Pleasure (#164)
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Many of us were raised in the purity culture. As we have become wives, we are unpacking some unhealthy, unhelpful influences. In this episode we’ll discuss a few of the unhelpful lies and the heaviness of legalism that many of us have believed. Christian women aren’t sexual. Good girls don’t talk about sex. Thinking about sexual desire is a waste of time. Sex is for men and their pleasure.
These falsehoods are rooted in lies from the enemy that have been with us for centuries. As we uproot the lies, we can look at God’s good design and learn to walk in freedom and abundance. God made us as sexual beings, giving us senses and anatomy that allow us to experience pure pleasure.
Related Episodes:
Your Wonderful Female Body - Erogenous Zones, Ep 108
Battle for Your Beauty: Purity Culture, Body Blessing and Loving without Shame, Ep 87
Great Sex Grows…When I Shift My Mindset, Ep 120
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, welcome back. Today we are going into a little bit of a journey from |
| 0:10.2 | purity culture to pure pleasure. I talked to a woman recently and she said, yeah, I was |
| 0:16.0 | raised in the purity culture, but, and I still want to be pure, but I'm trying to figure out |
| 0:20.7 | what sex looks like now and |
| 0:22.3 | I feel like that is a funny way that we often think is that we used to be in the purity culture |
| 0:28.6 | and now what and how do we make that transition from a sense of shame or distancing ourselves |
| 0:37.0 | from the good gift of sex into fully receiving all that God |
| 0:41.0 | has and knowing that it's pure and wonderful and good to celebrate sexuality and to embrace |
| 0:48.2 | the gift of God in marriage. So today I'm talking about what that has looked like for me to transition |
| 0:53.5 | from purity culture to pure pleasure. I'm beginning with what that has looked like for me to transition from purity culture to |
| 0:54.7 | pure pleasure. I'm beginning with a lot of the lies that I believed about my body, about sex, |
| 1:01.2 | about sexuality, about pleasure. And I'm actually really vulnerably going to tell you the |
| 1:07.0 | consequences of those lies because lies are not innocuous. They have a distinct ability to |
| 1:14.9 | also bring destruction with them. They're not just thoughts and they're not just ideas, but they |
| 1:21.1 | follow into our lives with patterns that affect the way we relate to ourselves, to God and others. |
| 1:27.8 | So I'm getting really vulnerable today talking about the lies that I believed and the consequences |
| 1:31.3 | they had in my thinking and my relating. |
| 1:34.3 | And then I share with you the gift of how God has been ushering me into pure pleasure |
| 1:39.2 | and what that looks like. |
| 1:40.6 | So I hope you enjoy a little snapshot of my journey today. And my prayer is that you find |
| 1:46.0 | space to be honest with your journey, with the Lord, with the women that are walking with you |
| 1:50.4 | in your small group or in your church, or maybe you join the discipleship circle and we can be |
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