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...
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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...
Great (S)expectations
By Jana Although I’d like to think that I got married for all of the “right” reasons, the bottom line is that I married for sex. I mean, I did marry me a good...
"Feeling no shame": Sex and Menstruation
By Jana Recently I was having a discussion with a friend about whether or not to have sex during menstruation, and this love scene came to mind from LDS author Judith Freeman’s A Desert...
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