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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | A lot of people that I work with grew up learning that desire and pleasure were scary, |
0:06.0 | that they were the feelings that were interfering with their goodness, that there was something going wrong. |
0:13.0 | And a lot of us treat our kids like something's going wrong, rather than this is normal to human sexual development |
0:21.6 | and something would be going wrong if they weren't having any of those feelings, right? |
0:25.6 | That this is a part of them growing into the capacity to be adults, |
0:30.6 | to be in an adult intimate relationship, |
0:33.6 | and that they're not only essential to reproduction, |
0:41.1 | those feelings are essential to relational joy. |
0:50.6 | Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, |
0:53.9 | a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, spirituality, |
0:55.9 | and more, all featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife. |
1:03.8 | Hi, everyone. Welcome. I have been asked to talk to you about how to talk to our kids, and by extension, how to talk to ourselves about sex. |
1:17.6 | This is not an easy topic, right? |
1:19.4 | We feel like we should do this, but it is very hard to do this. |
1:24.1 | And it's in part because parents, kids, and sex do not mix for a good reason. Biologically, |
1:30.3 | it's protective that our kids don't want to know about our sexuality and we don't really |
1:37.3 | want to infect them with this reality. And so it's very, very easy to want to avoid this responsibility to our kids. |
1:46.5 | But we live in a time when this really isn't an option. |
1:50.7 | We live in a very sexualized culture. |
1:53.3 | There are messages about what constitutes healthy or good sexuality |
1:58.4 | that kids are getting from multiple sources |
2:01.6 | and they really, really need our perspective, |
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