#81: Sex. Shame. Spirituality. We’re going there today.

In this conversation with sex therapist and researcher Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, we unpack the toxic effects of purity culture and how the shame we were taught about sex, bodies, and desire continues to shape us as adults, parents, and partners.

Tina doesn’t hold back. She breaks down how abstinence-only education fueled a generation of disconnection, the difference between modesty and moral panic, and why so many of us feel broken when it comes to intimacy.

We also talk about her books Sex, God & the Conservative Church and Shameless Parenting—including the real reasons parents struggle to talk to their kids about sex, and how we can raise emotionally aware, sexually healthy humans (even if we’re still healing ourselves).

This one cracks open the conversations most people avoid, but we need to be having anyway. Play it. Sit with it. And maybe finally let go of some of the shame you’ve been carrying.

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www.tinaschermersellers.com

On Instagram @drtinashameless

Buy the books: Shameless Parenting and Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy

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