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The Great Sex Rescue
- The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended
- Narrated by: Sheila Wray Gregoire
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
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Publisher's Summary
What if it's not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage?
Based on a groundbreaking in-depth survey of 22,000 Christian women, The Great Sex Rescue unlocks the secrets to what makes some marriages red hot while others fizzle out. Generations of women have grown up with messages about sex that make them feel dirty, used, or invisible, while men have been sold such a cheapened version of sex, they don't know what they're missing. The Great Sex Rescue hopes to turn all of that around, developing a truly biblical view of sex where mutuality, intimacy, and passion reign.
The Great Sex Rescue pulls back the curtain on what is happening in Christian bedrooms and exposes the problematic teachings that wreck sex for so many couples-and the good teachings that leave others breathless. In the #MeToo and #ChurchToo era, not only is this book a long overdue corrective to church culture, it is poised to free thousands of couples from repressive and dissatisfying sex lives so that they can experience the kind of intimacy and wholeness God intended.
Contains mature themes.
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- Mom of 4 Boys
- 2021-07-16
I’m begging you to read this ...
All of you. Women AND men.
As a one time embracer of the EMB culture and beliefs, one who helped others whittle away at her soul in an effort to keep my repeatedly unfaithful husband satisfied while he and I both thoroughly disregarded my needs and feelings ... this book is healing me like nothing else has in the 10 years since my divorce. I’ve read everything. Everything. Looking for answers, relief, direction, correction, understanding what’s “wrong with me,” looking for Jesus in a great chasm of hurt and brokenness. Here. Here it is. The John Gottman book the authors mention was the first book that spoke to my understanding of Jesus in marriage, though I was struggling to reconcile that it was a secular book. It broadened my perspective ... it was okay to question what other Christian’s believed (an insidious root in the evangelical world - questioning is NOT okay) and preached. Not all Christians get it right and not all secular folks have it wrong. Rookie mistake. God’s image and creation is in everyone. And everyone is capable of reflecting and distorting it. Thank you thank you thank you to the authors (and to those who filled out the surveys) for shining Light (Jesus) on a long-standing destructive system of belief. Your boldness and bravery are a gift beyond measure to so many women. May your message be spread quickly to restore what the locusts have taken. This book has moved to the top of my giveaway list, and yes, I will beg others to read it just as I am begging you the reader of this review. This ... this is Love.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-06-30
Controversial message from questionable material
First, this book is written almost exclusively to women, not men, and it is a SEX book, not a MARRIAGE book. It's worth making that distinction.
Second, it gets its source material from a survey of 20,000 women, but no men. Take this into consideration when evaluating the authors' claims.
Third, the authors start from a basis of science, statistical analysis, and opinion, rather than starting from the idea that the Bible should be there source of answers. Do all the research you want (really, research is a good thing!), but if your "research" or opinions contradict the Bible, then they are faulty. The authors even go so far as to quote 1 Corinthians 7:3-5, only to turn around and echo the snake from the garden by saying, "is that really what it says?"
Fourth, the authors use a "rubric" to rate other popular marriage books, both Christian and secular. Oddly enough, two secular books get the highest scores of all, while they give "Love and Respect" a score of exactly 0. That book helped my marriage greatly and white it may not have exact same effect on every other marriage, I can't see how no one could not find even one redeemable quality in it.
Gregoire has a fixation on vaginismus and bad examples of Christian husbands throughout the book. Yes, these are real issues and they need to be addressed and not dismissed or underrated. That said, they should not be portrayed as the only cause of sexual issues in a marriage.
Two things the authors greatly missed the mark on: 1) The Bible should be the starting and ending point for marital, spiritual, and relational issues. By all means, include additional research, scholarship, testimony, and opinion, but do not put them above the reliability of Scripture.
2) What's best for a married couple should be determined by the couple. Stop reading Christian books on sex until you've first talked to your spouse about it. If the husband cannot listen to and articulate himself to his wife and vise versa, NO book can fix your marriage or your sex life. Gregoire's book does far too little to emphasize either of these primary truths.
For all their warnings against bad and damaging teaching in "Christian" sex books today, Gregoire et al. make the very mistakes they reprimand other authors for, all without using Scripture as a basis or getting any masculine input from their survey groups.
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- Andrew
- 2021-06-18
The most refreshing book!
Wow, wow, wow!!! EVERYONE needs to read this book! So incredibly eye opening to the horrible things taught by so called Christians about Gods design for marriage and sex. I cried so hard reading the stories of the women, men, and marriages hurt by these completely unbiblical teachings. Thank you so much for confronting these gross misrepresentations and replacing them with Gods good truth and design. I have so much hope for what God wants to do in our marriage and how to better raise and train our sons and daughters. I can’t say thank you enough for your boldness to write this!
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- AmazonAddict85
- 2021-09-10
A must read for any Christian - married or not
I now know what advice I'm going to give when people ask for "advice for the new couple" - read this book together! Well written and engaging. I haven't read most of the books they discussed (thank goodness) but have still been exposed to most of the same themes and ideas in them. The example passages they call out from books are often shocking and even literally nauseating. Even with being in a great marriage with wonderful intimacy, the book made me look at and let go of emotional baggage I wasn't even fully aware I had. I also feel like I have a better understanding of the pain and struggles other women are possibly dealing with. I fully respect the amount of work and dedication the authors took to survey 20,000 women in order to draw their insights. Whether you are sexually active or not, married or not, a man or a woman, you should read this book if you are looking for a better relationship with the opposite sex and before offering relationship or sex advice to others.
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- katyjlove
- 2021-06-10
Actually worth the read
This book is surprising well written. It actually takes the Bible’s perspective of sex with out manipulating it. I also really appreciate the statistics they used to back up their claims
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- Kevin A.
- 2021-09-04
A Must Read!
I have been searching and searching trying to figure out what God wants for our marriage. I’ve read many Christian books and listened to many Christian sermons only to hear the same message; which hasn’t brought forth light, but at times even made our sex and marriage worse. My husband and I listened to this book together. We both thank the authors of this book, and would recommend it to every pastor, every married couple, and every engaged couple. It is time to start preaching on this subject aligned with Biblical truths; not human opinions or expectations. Thank you for all of the research and time put into this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-09-02
Every husband should read this book.
I'm a husband of 5 years. Its time that Christian men man up and quit blaming things on their wives. This book is one the best on the subject.
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- hannah jeske
- 2021-09-01
Every couple needs to read this
Wow. This book was truly incredible! My husband and I have been married for almost 5 years, together for 10. This book was recommended to me, and it’s exactly what our marriage needed! Very thorough and thought out. Super engaging content and voice. It stirred up a lot of deep conversations that addressed many lies and beliefs from our past that we hadn’t ever realized we had. Everyone should listen to this, even if you don’t think you need “rescuing.” We listened to it together, and my husband is now recommending it to every person who will listen. Just buy it. You won’t regret it!
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- Davon martin
- 2021-07-08
Amazing!
Not the easiest book to read , simply because of all the paradigm shifts that took place in my mind , but just what our marriage needed after 20+ yrs. I'm sharing it with many friends and family! Narrator was great !
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- Linda K
- 2021-11-06
Terrible unhealthy and biased
If this book’s purpose was to give women a voice and have our sexual needs represented and rescued from the evil that is out there, it barely gave us a whisper. This whole book missed the mark. The first 11 chapters were a huge bash fest on other books and authors, pastors and men. It depicted only the worst of the worst kind of selfish men and pastors. I get the impression that the women that wrote this book hate men, except for “their” men of course. These women also misquoted and took out of context the excerpts “quoted” and constantly contradicted themselves and the Bible. They took liberties and made assumptions to create strong men arguments. They simply didn’t interview any men, the respresentations were almost always at the detriment of the man. This book should have been only about chapter 12; that could have made a huge impact. Instead, I’m offended for my husband and other men out there that were depicted in such a horrible light. It seems they only polled 200,000 women with terrible and bad marriages. None of whom were responsible in any way for their dysfunctional marriage, because they all married man pigs. They of course the didn’t hear the side of the husband. Nope. Why get the other side of the story? This book is for women that feel or have been victimized by their spouse or a previous relationship and can’t have “Normal” sexual relationships. Every example was extreme and skewed. There were some very good points in the book, but the extreme bias of the authors and the man bashing left me wanting to be rescued from the book.
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