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. Saying sex is dirty, is pretty uncool these days. So Christian folk don’t say it out loud. We’re much more subtle now. However, instincts as ancient as our dirty-sex ones, don’t go away easily. In our case, they just went underground. Which makes them harder to deal with, because we don’t see them (or their […] The post Christians and Dirty Sex: Subtle Like Cancer appeared first on Doug Hammack.

. We’re Sorry! Through the centuries, we Christian folk have gotten pretty twisted up about sex. Most don’t know how it happened, which makes it really hard to get untwisted when we try. But we’re trying. You’ve probably never heard of Clement of Alexandria. He died way back in the second century, but he really messed […] The post Christians and Sex: We Owe Folks an Apology appeared first on Doug Hammack.

Church folk have a reputation for being sexually repressed. Thank goodness it’s not always true! But unfortunately it’s true often enough. All that sexual repression came from somewhere — and Greek philosophy played a major role. If we religious folk are going to have a place at the table as our society rethinks sex education, […] The post How Sex Got Dirty (Thanks a Lot, Plato!) appeared first on Doug Hammack.

The sexual journey is a tough one. Young folks could really use someone who has been on the journey a while. They need a road map to help them navigate what’s coming. But that’s easy to say . . . not so easy to do. There are a lot of reasons it’s tough to talk […] The post Talking About Sex is Tough! appeared first on Doug Hammack.

. The Climax of The Sexual Journey… Doesn’t Happen During Intercourse The sexual journey culminates in our deep and primal desire to connect being fulfilled. Erotic hunger serves that deeper desire. Biology, and loneliness, and chemical madness — all serve our deeper desire to connect. Uninformed of the journey’s destination, it is easy to get lost along the […] The post Going All The Way: The Sexual Journey appeared first on Doug Hammack.

In the last several episodes, I’ve been making the case that our sexuality thrusts us forward on a journey much more expansive than the singular experience of eroticism. When we don’t see the whole picture, we limit our sexuality — which costs us. It inevitably shortchanges the full experience our sexuality offers us. Finishing well, then, demands a full […] The post Sex for a Lifetime: Finishing Well appeared first on Doug Hammack.

There’s More to Sex Than the Orgasm Sexuality is a life-long journey encompassing a profound depth of our humanity. Over a lifetime, eroticism comes and goes. Even romantic friendship waxes and wanes. The ancient Greeks taught us an important stage on the sexual journey — that doesn’t look sexy at all. However, by ignoring it (as our […] The post Sexuality Interrupted: A Story appeared first on Doug Hammack.

Chemical Love Is a Real Thing… But Not the Whole Thing It turns out, that the powerful and intoxicating brain chemicals that make us crazy-in-love, serve another purpose as well — they are actually bonding agents. They help two people make long-term attachments, one to another. From a brain-evolution perspective, it turns out that the […] The post Evolution, Brain Chemistry, and the Stages of Love appeared first on Doug Hammack.

   Sexuality Is Progressive — Not Static If we’re paying attention, our sexuality carries us along on a journey. Eroticism is only the first stop (a really nice one, but only the first). Margaret Meade suggested that all women need three husbands. The first for great sex, the second for stability as we raise children, and […] The post Margaret Mead and the Sexuality of the Greeks appeared first on Doug Hammack.

Sexuality is Deep.  Really Deep! As a culture, we tend to reduce our most primal drive to connect and to create — we tend to reduce it to push-up-bra eroticism, and then use it to sell cars. Not the best way to experience our deepest humanity. How are we not leading with this …when we teach our young people about their sexual energies? Have […] The post Push-Up Bras and Six-Pack Abs appeared first on Doug Hammack.

  Welcome to this new podcast on Rethinking Sex Education. In this episode, we explore the five core institutions that make up a society. When there is a society-wide problem, this is who we call upon to solve it. With personal stories and a few statistics, we look at how all but one of our five social institutions […] The post Rethinking Sex Ed. What We're Doing Isn't Working appeared first on Doug Hammack.