Tag: LDS sexuality
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Why Most LDS Pornography Problems Are Really About Shame
When LDS individuals and couples come to therapy around pornography, they often expect to work on “the addiction.” What they find is something more complex — and more hopeful: the…
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Sacred Sexuality: An LDS Perspective on Intimacy, Desire, and the Body
In LDS theology, the body is sacred. The creation is good. Marriage is an eternal covenant. Sexuality, within that covenant, is meant to be a sacred expression of love, intimacy,…
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Purity Culture Trauma: How Religious Sexual Shame Affects LDS Adults
Many LDS adults carry wounds they can’t quite name — a persistent shame about their bodies, deep anxiety around sexual intimacy in marriage, an inability to experience pleasure…
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Is Pornography Addiction Real? What the Research Actually Says
If you’ve grown up in an LDS or religious household, you’ve likely heard pornography described as an addiction — something that hijacks the brain like heroin, something shameful…