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13 Cards in this Set

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True Reality
Lasting sexual fulfillment is primarily about the quality of our relationship with our spouse
Sexuality in God's plan
Sacred powers of procreation” “multiply & replenish”

Unifying spouses with each other and God – “an expression of love”
Guiding principles
Equal Partnership
Equal Counsel & Consent

Cleaving
Spousal Preeminence

Divine Triangle
- Alignment with spouse & God

3 Types of Intimacy
Emotional, Affectionate, & Passionate
Four phases of the Sexual Response Cycle
1) Desire phase
2) Arousal phase
3) Orgasm/Climax phase
4) Afterglow phase
Can couples in a loving marriage still struggle with passionate intimacy?
1) Physical reasons
2) Psychosocial reasons
3) Relationship reasons
Good girl syndrome
Negative conditioning about sex and our bodies.
Discomfort or embarrassment in discussing sexual matters
Underlying belief that sex is bad, wrong, dirty, or sinful.
Inability to relax and “let go” within the sexual experience.
Inappropriate inhibitions, guilt, shame, or awkwardness associated with sexual relations.
Lack of understanding of the divine purposes of sex
Bad boy syndrome
Internalized sexual conditioning of mainstream society.
Pre-pornographic and Pornographic Images
Objectification and Distortion
Intimacy detached from relationship outcomes
Marriage = License to Lust
Marital Finish Line of Chastity
Wife's sexual response
Brain = 60%
Clitoris = 30%
Vagina = 5%
Other = 5%
Husband's sexual response
Brain = 51%
Penis = 44%
Other = 5%
Types of Intimacy
Emotional Intimacy: Conversation, shared time, etc. Affectionate Intimacy: Holding hands, cuddling, etc.
Passionate Intimacy: Arousal, orgasm, afterglow, etc
Pace of Arousal
Spouses typically proceed through arousal phases at a different pace (wife up to 10x longer).
Sequence of Arousal
- Desire & Arousal phases are reversed for many spouses.
Selfless intimacy
can “literally double your sexual pleasure: You get satisfaction not only from your own sexual response but from your partner’s as well…love and concern for one’s partner shifts the focus away from the self in a sexual relationship and toward the other person. This selfless approach to sex, paradoxically, is far more likely to bring sexual satisfaction to both men and women”