Sex, God, and the Conservative Church

Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith―mired in sexual shame and dysfunction―and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation. The author first walks clinicians and readers through a critique of Western culture and the conservative Christian Church, and their effects on intimate partnerships and sexual lives.

The book provides clinicians a way to understand the faulty sexual ethic of the early church while revealing the hidden mystical sex and body-positive understanding of the sexuality of the Hebrew people. The book also includes chapters on strategies for a new sexual ethic, clinical steps to heal religious sexual shame, and on specific sex therapy interventions clinicians can use directly in their practice. Finally, it offers a four-step model for healing religious sexual shame and actual touch and non-touch exercises to bring healing and intimacy into a person’s life.