Erotica, Women and Marriage

What it is

A short article, about three minutes, making a point most purity material skips: sexual temptation is not a male-only problem, and for many women it arrives as erotic fiction rather than images. Dannah Gresh and Dr. Juli Slattery argue that erotica — the Fifty Shades phenomenon had sold 100 million copies by 2014 — corrodes intimacy along the same line pornography does, by making a spouse answer a question they cannot win: am I enough? The piece sets against that a positive account of sexuality drawn from the Song of Solomon, and raises the distorted picture of submission that popular erotica trades on. Free, quick, and useful precisely because it names something many Christian women have never heard named. A conversation opener rather than a recovery plan.

What it may help with

• I'm a woman struggling
• We're rebuilding our marriage

How to access it

Web article, about a 3-minute read None

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