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S2 Ep1105: Purity Culture, Female Sexuality, Shame, Body Positivity, Lust, Modesty, and a Theology of Menopause: Dr. Carol Tanksley

Theology in the Raw

Theology in the Raw

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dr. Carol Tanksley practiced medicine as an OB-Gyn physician and Reproductive Endocrinologist for over 29 years. While continuing to practice medicine, I also obtained an M.Div. (Master of Divinity), and then a D.Min. (Doctor of Ministry) from Oral Roberts University, focusing on Christian leadership. She’s an author of several books that focus on mental, physical, and sexual health from a Christian perspective. In this episode, we talk about the challenges facing Christian women in the wake of purity culture. We talk about shame, body positivity, challenges to female sexual satisfaction and desire, Christian marriages, lust, modesty and clothing, menopause, and many other topics related to female sexual health:  

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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology and Around My Guests Today is Dr.

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Carol Tanksley who practiced medicine as an OB-GYN physician and reproductive endocrinologist

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for over 29 years. While continuing to practice medicine, she went and got her MDiv or master

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divinity and her doctorate of ministry. And so Dr. Carol is one smart cookie who is an expert in

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many different areas. She's the author of several books that focus on mental, physical,

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spiritual and sexual health from a Christian perspective focusing primarily on a woman's

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mental and sexual health. And that is kind of the topic of our conversation. A bit of a not a

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warning, I guess, or just to let you know that we do get explicit. And we do talk very frankly about

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things surrounding sex, women's health, women's sexual health, challenges to female sexuality.

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So I'll make a leave it up to your discussion. Again, as always, on Theology and Around,

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I do get raw. We do get real. We get honest. We also try to do so in a tasteful way. We're not

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trying to be provocative for just to provoke people's thinking. But if there are small children

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