Guest Post: On Trusting Our Bodies
by Beth Murry I stood at the end of the diving board looking down into the blue water of the deep end. The distance between my feet and the surface of the water was...
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Guest Post: Mormons, Nudity and Sexuality
by Lizza Jacobs This gorgeous drawing was a wedding gift from a BYU art professor. Jared and I met during his show and he very generously and graciously told us to choose our favorite...
The Different Sides of Single and Chaste
Five years ago I posted this article here on Exponent II. I thought this (singles series) would be a good time to re-post it with a few updates. I was almost 21 years old...
Sexuality & Singledom (from the series: Single and Married in the LDS Church)
by Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife The text below was adapted from a presentation at the “Of One Body” Singles Conference in New York City on May 16, 2015. This post is only part of...
Sex, Proposition 8 dominated discussion in 2008
In 2008, two of the three most commented posts at the Exponent blog centered on the LDS Church’s decision to get involved in Proposition 8, a California ballot proposition to oppose same-sex marriage. Additionally,...
Beginning Conversations with Children about Pornography
I didn’t think about pornography much as a teenager or young adult. It was difficult to find when I was growing up. Internet browsers weren’t around (really) when I living in my parents’ home,...
What the heart wants
It was a small gesture I had seen hundreds of times before, my father pausing for a brief moment to appreciate a thing of beauty. This time it was an arrangement of lilies that...
What I Would Say To My Bishop About Prop 8
by Caroline (Painting: The Marriage by Casey Matthews) Hello Bishop, It’s been a difficult month for me at church, since I am terribly saddened by the Church’s decision to mobilize the rank and file...
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