LDS Female Sexuality - Part 2

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this popular 2012 interview, Dr. Finlayson-Fife is interviewed by Natasha Helfer of the Mormon Mental Health podcast to discuss her dissertation research on LDS women and sexuality. This 3-part interview was Jennifer's first-EVER (and one of her most-listened-to) podcasts! Jennifer discusses the questions and findings of her research, looking at LDS women and the impact of a patriarchal religious structure on their peace with sexuality and sense of sexual agency. The second part of this unique conversation covers the following topics... -How parents can teach healthy sexuality -The impact of the language we use around sexual addiction and pornography addiction -Low desire in women and -How to understand fantasy Part 3 will be released later this week! To learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s work, visit our Website, check out our Course Page, and take a look at our upcoming Events. You can also follow Dr. Finlayson-Fife on Instagram or join her FREE Facebook Group for greater access to her insights. www.Finlayson-Fife.com You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and Stitcher. The advice offered through Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s Podcast Archive is educational and informational in nature and is provided only as general information. It is not meant to establish a therapist-patient relationship or offer therapeutic advice, opinion, diagnosis treatment or to establish a standard of care. Although Dr. Finlayson-Fife is a trained psychotherapist, she is not functioning in the role of a licensed therapist during these sessions, but rather using her training to inform these sessions. Thus, the content is not intended to replace independent professional judgment. The content is not intended to solicit clients or patients; and should not be relied upon as medical or psychological advice of any kind or nature whatsoever. The information provided through the Content should not be used for diagnosing or treating a mental health problem or disease. The information contained in these communications is not comprehensive and does not include all the potential information regarding the subject matter, but is merely intended to serve as one resource for general and educational purposes.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Ruby, and I'm Dr. Jennifer Finlays and Five's assistant, and you're listening to the Dr Finlays and
0:06.5	5 podcast Archive.
0:08.9	The podcast you'll be listening to today is entitled LDS Female Sexuality Part 2, originally produced and published by the
0:16.4	Mormon Mental Health Podcast.
0:18.4	Welcome and we hope you enjoy this episode.
0:22.2	Okay, so we've talked about all the feminist, I guess, critiques. Why don't you tell me a little
0:29.1	bit more about the positives, about, you know, what are the positives of our sexual messages?
0:35.6	Are there any positives that women can, you know, like you said, when you were an adolescent,
0:39.7	you found some protection and some boundaries that you could place around yourself that felt comfortable
0:45.5	for yourself.
0:46.5	Sure.
0:47.5	Well, you know, I think that for the women that demonstrated sexual agency, they were the minority of my sample,
0:54.2	but for those that it, for whom it worked,
0:57.0	it worked very well.
0:58.2	And that is to say that, like I mentioned earlier, that they really owned the law of chastity as a system that actually
1:07.2	protected what they most wanted. What they really wanted was a committed form of sexuality as in marriage.
1:15.0	They wanted somebody who had reserved this very sacred, vulnerable form of self-expression for the context of marriage and
1:28.0	specifically for them that it gave them a great sense of safety And so they really cherished that cultural gift, so to speak, and
1:38.9	said, you know, this is what I want and it's not about shame and me not being enough it's about my faith really
1:46.2	giving me an opportunity that I really want for myself and for my marriage down the
1:50.6	road so they you know in the case of these women they did marry men who
1:56.4	also had remained virginal until marriage. They moved very comfortably into marital
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