I often get questions regarding book recommendations for teaching children about sex. Here are a few I have found to be helpful: What’s Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle (geared towards boys 10 and up) It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health by Robie Harris It’s So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies and Families by Robie Harris These are not books put out by... Read more

Taken from Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson (a book I recommend for any marriage): “We now ask our lovers for the emotional connection and sense of belonging that my grandmother could get from a whole village. Compounding this is the celebration of romantic love fostered by our popular culture. Movies as well as television soap operas and dramas saturate us with images of romantic love as the be-all and end-all of relationships, while newspapers, magazines, and TV news avidly... Read more

Check out the following article from Medical News Today:In Cyber Bullying, Depression Hits Victims Hardest Notes of interest for me were:1. Kids are afraid to tell their parents about cyber bullying because they don’t want to be perceived as a tattle tale and they don’t want their computer or cell phone privileges to be taken away.2. Many kids haven’t been educated about cyber bullying as a term in of itself. Although I recommend that parents be monitoring electronical devices, I... Read more

Check out my first Mormon Stories Interview: One Gay Married Mormon Man’s Attempt at Reparative (Conversion) Therapy I’d love feedback. Read more

The following article in Men’s Health discusses issues surrounding conflict between couples, domestic violence and potentially abusive relationships. CR Macchi shares some good tips, and he happens to be the president of the Kansas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, which I belong to. Could you ever behave like Mel Gibson? Read more

I will try to keep this brief. My wife and I have been married for close to 20 years. With the exception of our engagement and possibly the first few years of our marriage, I have not been satisfied with our relationship. My wife is very independent. She enjoys many friendships. On the other hand, I am more dependent and have few close friendships. I have always looked primarily to our relationship for validation and emotional closeness. I have always... Read more

I’m wondering if you could help me out with a question about this pornography issue. From everything I have heard and read, pedophiles are generally born with a sexual predilection toward children, which is one reason the recidivism rate among pedophiles is near 100%. They can’t change their attraction just like gay people can’t or really anyone else. (Obviously I understand there are exceptions, but it was my understanding this was the rule). Where doesporn use fit into this, from... Read more

Great interview discussing not only issues surrounding raising a Down Syndrome child, but also parenting in general, ward member relationships, grief and more. Down Syndrome and Mormonism with Kathryn Soper. Read more

Women with orgasmic disorders are LESS likely to be educated about sex (as well as less comfortable in communicating their desire for clitoral stimulation to their partners,and more likely to have negative attitudes about masturbation).Taken from:Kelly, M.P., Strassberg, D.S. & Kircher, J.R. (1990). Attitudinal and experiential correlates of anorgasmia. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 19(2): 165-77. Read more

I am having a problem with guilt issues over an internet relationship that has developed. I am head-over-heels in love with a man I met a few months ago on the internet. We have bonded in just about every way possible, have so many common interests, we think each other’s thoughts, finish each other’s sentences on chat, etc. We are to the point of dreaming about each other every night, and the dreams cause spontaneous orgasms in me (I have... Read more