Week 2: Sex Was Created to Be Intimate.
For this week’s discussion, we will be working through Chapter 2 of The Great Sex Rescue.
Introduction
Week 1: What Is Sex?
Week 2: Sex as Intimacy.
Week 3: Sex Feels Good!
Week 4: Gate-keeping.
Week 5: Lust & Pornography
Week 6: Let’s Talk Libido!
Week 7: “Duty Sex” Isn’t Sexy.
Week 8: Unlocking Passion.
Discussion Questions
- Rebecca opens this video talking about the importance of being able to completely share yourself with another person. What kinds of things signify to you that ability to “take off the mask”?
- Sheila talks about how the word “know” in Genesis 4:1 (“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.”) is the same one as in Psalm 139:23 (“Search me and know me, O God.”) How does sex make us feel truly known? Can you think of some things that may get in the way of that true knowing?
- Intimacy means that sex is personal. And that means that each spouse takes time to learn what the other likes in bed. How should a spouse address it if their partner is not willing to take time to “know” them in this way? What would you suggest?
- Joanna shared the statistic that women are five times more likely to orgasm if they are satisfied with how close they feel to their husbands during sex. Have you heard this focus on emotional closeness emphasized in your Christian circles when discussing sex?
- What messages about intimacy and sex did you hear growing up? Did any of those messages change when you got engaged or married?